Dendrolagus bennettianus
Silhouette: Florian Pfaff · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Bennett's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus) is a large tree-kangaroo. Males can weigh from 11.5 kg up to almost 14 kg (25 to 31 lbs), while the females range between about 8 to 10.6 kg (18 to 23 lb). They are very agile and are able to leap 9 metres (30 ft) down to another branch and have been known to drop as far as 18 metres (59 ft) to the ground without injury.
Like other tree-kangaroos it has longer forelimbs and shorter hindlimbs than terrestrial kangaroos and a long bushy tail. It is mostly dark brown above and lighter fawn on chin, throat and lower abdomen. The forehead and muzzle are greyish. The feet and hands are black. The tail has a black patch at the base and a light patch on the upper part. The ears are short and rounded.
This very elusive (or "cryptic") tree-kangaroo is found in both mountain and lowland tropical rain forests south of Cooktown, Queensland to just north of the Daintree River; an area of only about 70 by 50 km (43 by 31 mi). It is also occasionally found in sclerophyll woodlands. It lives almost completely on the leaves of a wide range of rainforest trees, notably Heptapleurum actinophyllum (the umbrella tree), vines... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Bennett's Tree-kangaroo sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 20 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 8th most-seen of the 19 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Bennett's Tree-kangaroo in Daintree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and April, the lowest months. That is one of Daintree National Park's driest months, with about 60 mm of rain against 380 mm in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bennett's Tree-kangaroo sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Daintree National Park, in our data
Daintree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Bennett's Tree-kangaroo sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Macropodidae
The closest relatives of the Bennett's Tree-kangaroo that you can see in Daintree National Park (family Macropodidae, Kangaroos, Wallabies and Allies) are Red-legged Pademelon (about 20%), Agile Wallaby (about 10%) and Swamp Wallaby (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bennett's Tree-kangaroo is recorded against all the mammals logged in Daintree National Park (20 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
