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Bennett's tree-kangaroo

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241: 206: 75: 31: 50: 232:. Males can weigh from 11.5 kg up to almost 14 kg (25 to 31 lbs), while the females range between about 8 to 10.6 kg (17.6 to 23 lbs). They are very agile and are able to leap 9 metres (30 ft) down to another branch and have been known to drop as far as 18 metres (59 ft) to the ground without injury. 252:
and a long bushy tail. It is mostly dark brown above and lighter fawn on chin, throat and lower abdomen. The forehead and muzzle are greyish. The feet and hands are black. The tail has a black patch at the base and a light patch on the upper part. The ears are short and rounded.
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still rates the status of Bennett's tree-kangaroo as "near threatened", its numbers seem to be increasing and its range expanding. Sightings have become far more common in recent years. In 2006 a dead specimen was found along Amos Bay Road, just south of
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This very elusive (or "cryptic") tree-kangaroo is found in both mountain and lowland tropical rain forests south of
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woodlands. It lives almost completely on the leaves of a wide range of rainforest trees, notably
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legislation, and it is no longer hunted by Indigenous Australians. Both Roger Martin and
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Like other tree-kangaroos it has longer forelimbs and shorter hindlimbs than
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Contains information and a photo of Bennett's tree-kangaroo
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Index


Conservation status
Near Threatened
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Marsupialia
Diprotodontia
Macropodidae
Dendrolagus
Binomial name
De Vis

tree-kangaroo

terrestrial kangaroos
Cooktown
Queensland
Daintree River
sclerophyll
Heptapleurum actinophyllum
herbivore
Aboriginal Australians
pythons
dingo
IUCN

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