As well as the tree kangaroo (preferably Goodfellow's, for me personally), an echidna (I would prefer the short-beaked) and Victoria crowned pigeon, another couple of habitat animal options for New Guinea I would like to see are:
Dusky pademelon - A small forest-savannah wallaby from southern New Guinea; they are quite distinctly marked with vivid white cheek stripes on a greyish body, are listed as Vulnerable to extinction and are increasingly common in zoos in Europe - Chester Zoo I know keeps them in a mixed enclosure with tree kangaroos and one of the zoos in Berlin keeps dusky pademelon and tree kangaroos in a walkthrough enclosure.
Striped possum - A fairly big possum, slightly longer than a meerkat, which has very bold skunk-like patterns, the elongated finger and rodent-like teeth shared with the aye-aye and has definitely been kept and bred in captivity in the recent past. They are primarily kept in indoor nocturnal enclosures although the Cotswold Wildlife Park in England, when they had striped possums, kept them in an outdoor netted enclosure mixed with ground cuscus, another New Guinean possum.
As for an exhibit animal, one of my top choices would be Boelen's python. They are a fairly large python, up to three metres long, and have some of the most amazing iridescent colours of any snake. As with the pademelon, this is a species that is kept at Chester Zoo, who I know Frontier have worked with.
Dusky pademelon - A small forest-savannah wallaby from southern New Guinea; they are quite distinctly marked with vivid white cheek stripes on a greyish body, are listed as Vulnerable to extinction and are increasingly common in zoos in Europe - Chester Zoo I know keeps them in a mixed enclosure with tree kangaroos and one of the zoos in Berlin keeps dusky pademelon and tree kangaroos in a walkthrough enclosure.
Striped possum - A fairly big possum, slightly longer than a meerkat, which has very bold skunk-like patterns, the elongated finger and rodent-like teeth shared with the aye-aye and has definitely been kept and bred in captivity in the recent past. They are primarily kept in indoor nocturnal enclosures although the Cotswold Wildlife Park in England, when they had striped possums, kept them in an outdoor netted enclosure mixed with ground cuscus, another New Guinean possum.
As for an exhibit animal, one of my top choices would be Boelen's python. They are a fairly large python, up to three metres long, and have some of the most amazing iridescent colours of any snake. As with the pademelon, this is a species that is kept at Chester Zoo, who I know Frontier have worked with.