He named it dingiso, which is what the locals call it.

On New Guinea, kangaroos such as the dingiso have become arboreal, taking the place of monkeys.

The Dingiso or tree-kangaroo of Western New Guinea is first seen by scientists.

Endemic to the Sudirman Range is the Dingiso, a tree-kangaroo species only discovered in 1995.

The dingiso has a distinctive pattern of black and white fur; it has a white belly, and a black head, back and limbs.

He returned to find, in a miniature rain forest constructed on a porch, a young male dingiso that had wandered into the mine site, the first living one he met.

The dingiso was formally described to science in 1995 by Australian Museum zoologist Tim Flannery, Indonesian zoologist Boeadi and Australian anthropologist Alexandra Szalay.