Life above the forest floor comes with a different set of rules, and they’ve mastered every one of them.
The average kangaroo is a ground-hopping, sunbaked icon of Australia. The tree kangaroo, though? It’s a high-altitude gymnast living hundreds of feet up in the mossy cloud forests of Papua New Guinea and northeastern Australia. They’re fur-coated enigmas that move with the grace of a tightrope walker, surviving in places few humans ever see. Here’s what makes them such masters of the treetop world—and why their sky-high lifestyle is more calculated than it looks.
