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Description
At the eastern slope of Great Dividing Ridge, in humid mountain woods the relative of this species, the marsupial panda (Gravipossum paraailuropoda) lives. This species is much smaller, rather than marsupial grizzly: the adult female weighs about 300 kg at length of body up to 2 meters, and the male is 25 - 30 kg lighter. In food predilections marsupial panda differs from marsupial grizzly by appreciable bias in vegetarianism. The food of animal origin amounts a small part of diet - marsupial pandas eat eggs of ground-nesting birds, and willingly consume carrion. Frequently animals search for forage on banks of mountain rivers, feeding on water invertebrates and local migrating fishes of Galaxiiformes order. But the basic food of this animal is made of roots and leaves of grassy plants, and also sprouts of bushes. Living in cool mountain climate, marsupial panda differs in rich wool. At this animal there are black head, shoulders and back, rounded white spots above eyes, grey sides and back part of body. The tail of marsupial panda has snow-white inner side which is used by animals for submission of signals to congeners.
Fertility of marsupial panda is insignificant: the female gives rise to no more than five cubs from which only one or two ones survive up to independence. Life expectancy of this animal reaches 40 years.

Description
At the eastern slope of Great Dividing Ridge, in humid mountain woods the relative of this species, the marsupial panda (Gravipossum paraailuropoda) lives. This species is much smaller, rather than marsupial grizzly: the adult female weighs about 300 kg at length of body up to 2 meters, and the male is 25 - 30 kg lighter. In food predilections marsupial panda differs from marsupial grizzly by appreciable bias in vegetarianism. The food of animal origin amounts a small part of diet - marsupial pandas eat eggs of ground-nesting birds, and willingly consume carrion. Frequently animals search for forage on banks of mountain rivers, feeding on water invertebrates and local migrating fishes of Galaxiiformes order. But the basic food of this animal is made of roots and leaves of grassy plants, and also sprouts of bushes. Living in cool mountain climate, marsupial panda differs in rich wool. At this animal there are black head, shoulders and back, rounded white spots above eyes, grey sides and back part of body. The tail of marsupial panda has snow-white inner side which is used by animals for submission of signals to congeners.
Fertility of marsupial panda is insignificant: the female gives rise to no more than five cubs from which only one or two ones survive up to independence. Life expectancy of this animal reaches 40 years.