| [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 |
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