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Dendrolagus inustus (Grizzled Tree-kangaroo)

Wikipedia Abstract

The grizzled tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in foothill forest in northern and western New Guinea. It is also known from some of the offshore islands.
View Wikipedia Record: Dendrolagus inustus

Infraspecies

Dendrolagus inustus finschi (Grizzled grey kangaroo)
Dendrolagus inustus inustus (Grizzled grey kangaroo)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Dendrolagus inustus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
45
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.78
EDGE Score: 3.67
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25.133 lbs (11.40 kg)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 4 months
Male Maturity [3]  2 years
Gestation [3]  33 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  24 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  25 inches (63 cm)
Weaning [1]  1 year 5 months
Habitat Substrate [4]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dorcopsinema dendrolagi <Unverified Name>[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0