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About the size of a Labrador |
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and with bear-like features |
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it is amazingly a type of kangaroo, a tree kangaroo |
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It lives at a higher altitude than any other kangaroo |
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hence the woolly coat. |
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Kangaroos usually feed on grass |
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but here on New Guinea, |
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they've climbed into the trees where the greenery is more abundant |
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So the dingiso is a kangaroo which lives high in the mountains and climbs trees |
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But then islands do have a habit of producing rather unusual animals |
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Why? |
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Because islands offer fresh opportunities to the creatures that find their way there. |
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With no monkeys in New Guinea |
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the freedom to browse in the trees has gone to the kangaroos |
