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Happy belated #WorldTreeKangarooDay! Tree-kangaroos are aboreal Australasian macropod marsupials, genus Dendrolagus with 14 species - all listed on the IUCN Red List.
Top: Plates 26 + 27 in John Gould's A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos (1841-2) Bottom: Plates 49 + 50 in Gould's The Mammals of Australia (1863)
Left: Ursine Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus) Right: Grizzled Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)
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#Tree Kangaroo#Tree-kangaroo#macropod#marsupial#Australasia#Australasian wildlife#John Gould#H. C. Richter#Teh Mammals of Australia#A Mongraph of the Marcopodidae#natural history art#scientific illustration#sciart#book plate#lithograph#illustration#19th century art#British art#European art#animal holiday#World Tree Kangaroo Day#IUCN Red List#threatened species#endangered species#animals in art#Biodiversity Heritage Library#BHL Australia
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