# Tree kangaroo extinct? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170 "2018-09-29T18:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/1 "2018-09-29T18:12:49Z")
Nope. 90 years later they found and photographed one: [https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/animals/2018/09/rare-wondiwoi-tree-kangaroo-discovered-mammals-animals](https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/animals/2018/09/rare-wondiwoi-tree-kangaroo-discovered-mammals-animals) Cool! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/2 "2018-09-29T18:19:58Z")
I’ll say! Coolest. Now on to bigfoot;) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/3 "2018-09-29T18:38:47Z")
That is cool! I’ll just point out that it is specifically the Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo that is rare. My local zoo has tree-kangaroos. [Tree-kangaroo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-kangaroo) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/4 "2018-09-29T19:27:42Z")
God Dammit! :mad: Now my wife is going to want one! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/5 "2018-09-29T20:09:25Z")
Next up, the elusive drop bear. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/6 "2018-09-29T20:20:32Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > That is cool! I’ll just point out that it is specifically the Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo that is rare. My local zoo has tree-kangaroos. [Tree-kangaroo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-kangaroo) Ah, well I remember the [tree kangaroos at Roger Williams Park Zoo](https://www.rwpzoo.org/animals/mammals/kangaroo-matschies-tree) in Providence. We watched one fall out of the tree. The docent commented, “Something scared those kangaroos wicked bad up into the trees, but they haven’t evolved enough to be able to stay up there.” (When I was a young thing, they also had naked mole rats, though they don’t appear on their site at this time.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/7 "2018-09-29T21:56:31Z")
^^aw! I love naked mole rats. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/8 "2018-09-30T00:20:54Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ll say! Coolest. > Now on to bigfoot;) Bigfoot, hell, where’s my my Dire Wolf!? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/9 "2018-09-30T22:51:45Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > That is cool! I’ll just point out that it is specifically the Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo that is rare. My local zoo has tree-kangaroos. [Tree-kangaroo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-kangaroo) And there are tree-kangaroos in the Toronto zoo. I saw them there, and later described them to my friends, who didn’t believe me… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-kangaroo-extinct/822170/10 "2018-09-30T22:54:16Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ll say! Coolest. > Now on to bigfoot;) Kangaroos are technically “[macropods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo)”, from the group “Macropodidae”. And yes, “macropod” _means_ “bigfoot”…