Common Spotted Cuscus - Spilocuscus maculatus
What I think I have here is a Phalanger Cuscus. Exactly which kind, I am not sure. This one comes from madang province in Papua New Guinea. I live in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. She eats many different kinds of leaves, peanuts, bananas, bread fruit leaves, rubber tree leaves. It also eats the blossoms from a banana tree. One of the unique features about them is that they have two opposable fingers on their front hands.

The common spotted cuscus is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands.
Similar species: Kangaroos, Wallabies, Possums

By Laura Young
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Uploaded Jul 20, 2019. Captured Jul 20, 2019 09:50.