God's Mistakes pt. 1 - Tree Kangaroos

Yes, I meant that ironically. Did you even know there was such a thing as a Tree Kangaroo? Well there is, and they live in the northern tropical forests of Australia and on some of the islands of the Australasian Archipelago (places like Papua New Guinea). Our friends are a little ungainly.in the trees. If I were to show you one out of habitat, you might not be able to figure that this was an arboreal animal. However, despite our judgment of their grace, they are well adapted enough to make a life in the trees. This is one of those cases of an animal not ideally adapted to its niche (it could have better legs and feet and tail for a life in the trees), but making what it has work for the life it has come to. Clumsy and awkward and utterly adorable; they have come to manners and habits that get through their homes well enough to survive. This is one of the animals that often enters the debates about evolution, because... come on, if you were to design an animal for tree life, you'd have done a better job.

This one is for my friends that view themselves as broken people... people made incorrectly... people who don't really work (as if missing a few requisite parts). You are not broken clocks, my friends. You are Tree Kangaroos... forced to live a life in the trees with your hopping feet that no longer can manage the ground. Maybe people can't change, but they can figure a way to live in the trees with the parts they have.

You know who you are, and I love you all. xxx


GOODFELLOW'S TREE KANGAROO (Dendrolagus goodfellowi)












BENNETT'S TREE KANGAROO (Dendrolagus bennettianus)






LUMHOLTZ'S TREE KANGAROO (Dendrolagus lumholtzi)








GRIZZLED TREE KANGAROO (Dendrolagus inustus)



TENKILE or SCOTT'S TREE KANGAROO (Dendrolagus scottae)
Critically Endangered






DINGISO (Dendrolagus mbaiso)
Recently discovered by Western Science




MATSCHIE'S TREE KANGAROO (Dendrolagus matschiei)