Flannery, an expert on the fauna of Melanesia, said : " The first thing that we knew about this animal was a photograph that was sent to me several years ago of a hunter with a little baby tree kangaroo only about as big as a half-grown cat in his hands.
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In a study done by McGreevy et al . ( 2010 ), AZA Matschie tree kangaroo s haplotype diversity was almost two times lower than wild Matschie tree kangaroos . This difference with allele frequencies shows the changes that can happen over time like genetic drift and mutation when a species is taken out of its natural habitat.
