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unusual facts about Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo


Mount Carbine Tableland

The rich basaltic soils in the area supports forests which provide habitat for the Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo.


American River, South Australia

In 2007, a local group, backed by Tourism Kangaroo Island and many local organisations, proposed that the historic ketch Falie be moved from Port Adelaide to the wharf at American River as an interpretive maritime museum.

Anigozanthos manglesii

A Red and Green Kangaroo Paw superimposed over a scene of Perth was depicted on a 5 pence on a 1962 Australian stamp issue designed by R. M. Warner to mark the British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth that year.

ANZIIF

The supporters, a Lyrebird (Menura superba) and a Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), were chosen to be different from the traditional Australian Kangaroo.

Bellerive, Tasmania

It stretches from Kangaroo Bay where it borders Rosny Park, around the curved shoreline of Bellerive Esplanade to Kangaroo Bluff, then down to Bellerive Beach and east to Second Bluff, where Bellerive borders Howrah.

Ben O'Donoghue

In June 2009 O'Donoghue took part in Masterchef Australia in a Celebrity Chef Challenge, where he was beaten by contestant Lucas Parsons, cooking a seared kangaroo loin with creamed corn.

Bennett's tree-kangaroo

It lives almost completely on the leaves of a wide range rainforest trees, notably Schefflera actinophylla (the Umbrella Tree), vines, ferns and various wild fruits.

Bill Cunningham

Billy Cunningham (born 1943), American professional basketball player and coach nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid

Birdsville

Elizabeth Haran's 2004 novel Stars in the Southern Sky is set in the town (though renamed to Kangaroo Crossing).

Buddy's Show Boat

Buddy and Cookie perform a rendition of "Under my Umbrella," after which Buddy introduces, to his pleased crowd, an Aboriginal performer called "Chief Saucer-lip", who, upon the captain's departure, immediately becomes a caricature of Maurice Chevalier, who recites "So I Married the Girl," with a kangaroo at the piano.

Carl Sofus Lumholtz

Born in Fåberg, Norway, Lumholtz graduated in theology in 1876 from the University of Christiania, now the University of Oslo.

Chasing Kangaroos

Seventy species make up the kangaroo family, which includes wallabies and rat kangaroos.

Dennis Ferguson

On 8 July 2012, Ferguson was spotted by The Daily Telegraph at Circular Quay in the Sydney CBD, selling RSPCA merchandise under the name, Ray Ferguson and holding up a tin of kangaroo-shaped biscuits.

Desert kangaroo rat

The desert kangaroo rat is found in arid parts of southwestern North America, including Death Valley, the Great Basin, the Mojave Desert, and portions of the Sonoran Desert.

Desert rat-kangaroo

Its native habitat is very arid, cover is sparse, and consists of saltbush and other chenopods and emu bush.

Devil's Tree

In 2013 Dread Central announced that director Joshua Petrino would begin work on a feature film based upon the tree.

Eccentric-hub scooter

Another device also called the Kangaroo Scooter has been designed and sold by Ron and Johnny Knox's company, Knoxcooter Inc., of Weyburn, Canada since around 2004.

Eden Park Kangaroo Cull

During October 2010 the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) applied for and received a 12-month permit from the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment for the Eden Park Kangaroo Cull - to cull 300 Eastern Grey Kangaroos on its 320 hectare Eden Park Vineyard and farm and Northern Lodge equine stud.

Emuellidae

Emuella dalgarnoi is found in the late Lower Cambrian (late Botomian) of South Australia (Emu Bay Shale, Kangaroo Island).

Foundation of Melbourne

As the land he travelled through was mostly treeless, and covered in dense swards of Kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra), it was, he wrote, "Land of the best description, equal to any in the world... the most beautiful sheep pasturage I ever saw in my life."

Gavin Souter

His books have included New Guinea: The Last Unknown (1963); A Peculiar People (1968), an account of the New Australia settlement in Paraguay; The Idle Hill of Summer: an Australian Childhood (1972); Lion & Kangaroo: The Initiation of Australia 1901-1919 (1976).

Greenpatch Point

Greenpatch is home to many different kinds of Australian native flora and fauna, including kangaroos, kookaburras, rosellas, lorikeets, wombats and many more.

Hippety Hopper

In Lighthouse Mouse, Sylvester must guard a lighthouse from the baby kangaroo and a mouse who wants nothing more than to turn it off.

History of Wagga Wagga

The town was the starting point of the "Kangaroo March", one of a series of snowball marches conducted in New South Wales during the war where groups of recruits would march toward Sydney and appeal to men in the towns along the route to join them and enlist in the Australian Imperial Force.

James Cook University Singapore

The university cited the pending contempt of court case against Tan for wearing a T-shirt of a kangaroo in judge's clothing at the defamation trial of SDP secretary-general Chee Soon Juan.

John Anthony Gallagher

Unfortunately though, Gallagher's defense came into question later in that game when giant Kangaroo second rower Paul Sironen scored two tries, both times running over the top of him.

Junior Kangaroos

They are commonly known as the Junior Kangaroos, after the native marsupial of that name.

Kangaroo Point, Queensland

In 1887, the Yungaba Immigration Centre was built on Main Street at Kangaroo Point to replace the poor facilities at the existing centre in William Street.

Keilor, Victoria

Australian megafauna including 3 metre high kangaroos and Diprotodons were found in the area until extinction about 13,000 years ago at the end of the ice age.

Kevin Buzzacott

In 2002 Buzzacott reclaimed his tribes' Emu and Kangaroo totems used in the Australian Coat of Arms from outside Parliament House, Canberra.

Lumholtz

Carl Sofus Lumholtz (1851–1922), Norwegian explorer and ethnographer, particularly indigenous cultures of Australia and Mesoamerican central Mexico

Matschie's tree-kangaroo

In 2009 the YUS Conservation Area has been established to protect the habitat of Matschies’ in the northern part of the Huon Peninsula.

Neven Maguire

John Masterson, writing in the Irish Independent, accused Liveline of "manufacturing" the fight, called the radio show a "kangaroo-court" and questioned why football manager Giovanni Trapattoni ("who had one more model than Neven in the same paper") was not equally guilty according to the feminists.

North Arm Cove, New South Wales

To the north of the Pacific Highway, land use is mainly rural and throughout the suburb kangaroos, wallabies and koalas are commonly found.

Paul Maar

His most read works are a series of books about Sams, a creature with red hair and a pig's nose that can grant wishes, and the stories about the Little Kangaroo.

Peter Matera

Matera is nicknamed 'Roo', dubbed so by team mate Chris Lewis due to his supposed Kangaroo like appearance.

Ray Mondo

Mondo drummed for the group for nearly two years, appearing on both of their records, the "Mind Disease" single and Kangaroo Court EP.

Regent Inns

Their menu offers Australian-themed foods such as Kangaroo and Crocodile fillets.

Riverlife Adventure Centre

The dreamtime story of ‘The Rainbow Serpent' tells of the creation of the cliff area along the river bank at Kangaroo Point.

Scatty Safari

The Goodies' arrival in Australia is marked by photos of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge — also seen are a kangaroo, koalas and kookaburras.

Shirl's Neighbourhood

The half-hour show featured former Skyhooks frontman Graeme "Shirley" Strachan and co-host Liz Rule alongside a cast of characters including Norm The Kangaroo, Ol' Possum, Claude The Crow, Stanley The Snake, Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Yippee the Bunyip, Bartholomew the Sheep and a band of monkeys.

Snake Tales

The initial group of characters featured: The Old Timer, an elderly bloke with a long thirst and a reluctance to shout for beers; The Con Man; The Kangaroo, who constantly avoids being killed for food; the Flyin' Doc; and The Last Lost Tribesman and his Wife, who are determined to stay lost.

Tom Terrific

Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo), Tom Terrific ran in a series of five-minute cartoons created specifically for the Captain Kangaroo show from 1957-1959, and was rerun on Kangaroo for years thereafter.

YUS Conservation Area

To establish the YUS Conservation Area, Woodland Park Zoo's Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program (TKCP) has worked with local landowners and the PNG government for more than 12 years.


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