Moni (people)
Encyclopedia
The Moni are an indigenous people of Western New Guinea
. They speak the Moni language
. They revere a large black and white whistling tree kangaroo called a bondegzeu
as an ancestor. The bondegzeu was unknown to the scientific community
until the zoologist Tim Flannery
described it in 1995.
Western New Guinea
West Papua informally refers to the Indonesian western half of the island of New Guinea and other smaller islands to its west. The region is officially administered as two provinces: Papua and West Papua. The eastern half of New Guinea is Papua New Guinea.The population of approximately 3 million...
. They speak the Moni language
Moni language
Moni, also Djonggunu~Jonggunu or Migani, is a Papuan language spoken by about 20,000 people in the Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of Papua. Awembak is a dialect....
. They revere a large black and white whistling tree kangaroo called a bondegzeu
Dingiso
The Dingiso , also known as Bondegezou , is a species of tree-kangaroo native and endemic to Western New Guinea of Indonesia, where it lives in alpine forests in the Sudirman Range at elevations of 3250 to 4200 m, just below the tree line.It was first filmed for the BBC documentary South Pacific in...
as an ancestor. The bondegzeu was unknown to the scientific community
Scientific community
The scientific community consists of the total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions. It is normally divided into "sub-communities" each working on a particular field within science. Objectivity is expected to be achieved by the scientific method...
until the zoologist Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist....
described it in 1995.