Endangered
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
Dendrolagus goodfellowi
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo is an endangered, long-tailed mammal native to rainforests of New Guinea.
Appearance
It has short, woolly fur, usually chestnut to red-brown in colour, a grey-brown face, yellow-coloured cheeks and feet. A pale belly, a long, golden brown tail, and two golden stripes on its rear.
It weighs approximately 7 kg (15 lb).
Range and habitat
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo lives in dense tropical rainforests and deciduous forests over mountain ranges, ranging from the border of central Irian Jaya in Indonesia to central and eastern Papua New Guinea. Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo, also called the ornate tree-kangaroo, is an endangered, long-tailed mammal native to rainforests of New Guinea. Its main threats are habitat loss and hunting.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo is a herbivore. Although they feed mainly on the leaves of the silkwood tree (Flindersia pimenteliana), other food is eaten when available, among them various fruits, cereals, flowers and grasses.
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos have large stomachs that function as fermentation vats, similar to the stomachs of cattle and other ruminant herbivores, where bacteria break down fibrous leaves and grasses.
In crisis
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo 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 Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo, Wikidata item Q209581. 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.
