I was just reading something from Tourism Indonesia and I thought this was really fascinating.
"In Irian Jaya, though there are major areas of dense forest and swamp not unlike those of Sumatra and Kalimantan, the large mammals of Asia, such as the tiger, rhinoceros and elephant, are absent. Instead, a whole range of Australian-derived species occurs. These include wallabies, carnivorous mice (thought to be related to the extinct Tasmanian Wolf), bandicoots, flying possums like the Sugar Glider which uses the membrane stretched between its legs to glide from tree to tree, tree-kangaroos, which are quite at home in the branches but find walking difficult, and the Spiny Anteater, related to the Duck-billed Platypus, which lays a single egg and then carries the hatched young around in a marsupial pouch."
I'm pretty interested to see how a spiny ant eater is related to a platypus... wouldn't it be more related to an echidna??? i didnt even know that there was something like a tree kangaroo... would they be like koalas, but they jump from tree to tree?
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