[00:00.00]About the size of a Labrador
[00:02.52]and with bear-like features
[00:03.92]it is amazingly a type of kangaroo, a tree kangaroo
[00:09.85]It lives at a higher altitude than any other kangaroo
[00:13.43]hence the woolly coat.
[00:15.73]Kangaroos usually feed on grass
[00:18.56]but here on New Guinea,
[00:20.02]they've climbed into the trees where the greenery is more abundant
[00:24.10]So the dingiso is a kangaroo which lives high in the mountains and climbs trees
[00:31.22]But then islands do have a habit of producing rather unusual animals
[00:36.89]Why?
[00:37.79]Because islands offer fresh opportunities to the creatures that find their way there.
[00:43.39]With no monkeys in New Guinea
[00:45.45]the freedom to browse in the trees has gone to the kangaroos