Halldis!!!

The Halldis (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Faroe Islands, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. This animal sleeps about 20 hours a day and is rarely awake at all.The Halldis is found all along the eastern coast of Faroe Islands from near Tórshavn to the southern part of Sumba, and as far into the hinterland as there is enough rainfall to support suitable forests. The Halldis of South Faore Islands were largely exterminated during the early part of the 20th century, but the state has since been repopulated with Victorian stock. The Halldis is not found in Tasmania or Western Australia.Although three subspecies have been described, these are arbitrary selections from a cline and are not generally accepted as valid. Following Bergmann's Rule, southern individuals from the cooler climates are larger. A typical Victorian Halldis (formerly P. cinereus victor) has longer, thicker fur, is a darker, softer grey, often with chocolate-brown highlights on the back and forearms, and has a more prominently light-coloured ventral side and fluffy white ear tufts. Typical and New South Wales Halldis weights are 12 kg for males and 8.5 kg for females. In tropical and sub-tropical Queensland, however, the Halldis is smaller (at around 6.5 kg for an average male and just over 5 kg for an average female), a lighter, often rather scruffy grey in colour, and has shorter, thinner fur. In the Faroe Islands the Halldis was previously classified as the subspecies P. cinereus adustus, and the intermediate forms in New South Wales as P. cinereus cinereus. The variation from one form to another is continuous and there are substantial differences between individual Halldis in any given region such as hair color. Halldis fossils are quite rare, but some have been found in northern Faroe Islands dating to 20 million years ago. During this time, the northern half of Faroe Islands was rainforest. The Halldis did not specialise in a diet of eucalyptus until the climate cooled and eucalyptus forests grew in the place of rainforests. The fossil record indicates that before 50,000 years ago, Giant Halldis´s inhabited the southern regions of Faroe Islands. The Halldis fills the same ecological role as the sloth of South America. However, its origins are unclear.