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Dingiso

Dendrolagus mbaiso Flannery, Boeadi & Szalay, 1995

ENEndangeredmarsupials

The dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso) is a species in the family Macropodidae, order Diprotodontia. Recorded adults weigh about 9.4 kg. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Endangered.

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Quick facts about the dingiso

Weight
9.4 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Gestation
32 dayssrc for Gestation
Young per litter or clutch
1src for Young per litter or clutch
Active
Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active
Lifestyle
Arborealsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the dingiso live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The dingiso is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the dingiso?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The dingiso () (Dendrolagus mbaiso), also known as the bondegezou or bakaga, is an endangered, long-tailed marsupial found only in mountain forests on the west of the island of New Guinea (in Indonesia). It is a species of tree-kangaroo (genus Dendrolagus), which are mammals native to Australia and New Guinea that feed on leaves or other plant matter. It belongs to the macropodid family (Macropodidae) with kangaroos, and carries its young in a pouch like most other marsupials. Though sacred to the local Moni people, it is still threatened by hunting and habitat loss.

Dr Tim Flannery and his team gave the species name mbaiso which means "the forbidden animal" in Moni, because of the local belief that dingiso is the spirit of their ancestors. Locally Dingiso is called Bakaga.

From the Wikipedia article “Dingiso” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dingiso&oldid=1382021501), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the dingiso endangered?

The dingiso is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Endangered species. What the categories mean.

How is the dingiso classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderDiprotodontia
  5. familyMacropodidae
  6. genusDendrolagus
  7. SpeciesDendrolagus mbaiso Flannery, Boeadi & Szalay, 1995
Other names and names in other languages (11)
  • BondegezouEnglish
  • BondegezouEnglish
  • دنقيسArabic
  • klokan dingisoCzech
  • Schwarzweißes BaumkänguruGerman
  • Canguro Arborícola del Puncak JayaSpanish
  • Fekete-fehér kúszókenguruHungarian
  • シロハラキノボリカンガル-Japanese
  • シロハラキノボリカンガルーJapanese
  • drzewiak naziemnyPolish
  • ДингисоRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the dingiso

Other species in the same genus Dendrolagus.

CompareDingiso vs Goodfellow's tree-kangarooDingiso vs Lumholtz's tree-kangarooDingiso vs Bennett's tree-kangarooDingiso vs Matschie's tree-kangaroo

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the dingiso?

An adult dingiso weighs 9.4 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the dingiso live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the dingiso for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the dingiso endangered?

The dingiso is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

How long is the dingiso pregnant?

The recorded gestation period is 32 days.

What kind of animal is the dingiso?

The dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso) belongs to the family Macropodidae in the order Diprotodontia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dingiso

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BibTeX
@misc{dingiso_2026,
  title = {Dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dingiso},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}