Endangered
Calaby's pademelon
Thylogale calabyi
Calaby's pademelon is a mammal in the family Macropodidae (order Diprotodontia) — Thylogale calabyi, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
The word 'macropod' means 'big foot' that is a common trait found in marsupials. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by habitat loss and hunting.
Conservation efforts have been created to help preserve the remaining populations left. The reserve is an acronym named after three major rivers that run through it, the Yopno, Uruwa, and Som of the Huon Peninsula and works to conserve Calaby's Pademelon.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Pademelons are generally solitary animals and are the most active during the winter season. Each species differ slightly on what they feed on.
The pademelon breeding period is throughout the year. Calaby's Pademelon prefers to forage in dense forested overgrowth and feeds on native leaves and grasses.
In crisis
There are many pademelon species, but Calaby's pademelon is considered one of the most endangered due to its poorly distributed population from habitat loss. This species is classified as endangered by the IUCN. The arrival of human populations have been largely responsible for Calaby's Pademelon's dwindling population.
It is listed as endangered because it has an area of occupancy of less than 500 km2 with all individuals in fewer than five locations. There is a continued decline in the extent and quality of its habitat due to predators as well as the number of mature individuals due to hunting.
Calaby's pademelon is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Calaby's pademelon, Wikidata item Q135925. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
