Animals that live on trees

Squirrel Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents.

Raccoon During the night, clever urban raccoons will climb trees to steal eggs from a bird’s nest for food.

Koala The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia.

Sloth Tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of tropical rainforests of South America and Central America.

Orangutans Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Tree kangaroo Tree kangaroos have adapted for arboreal locomotion mostly found in tropical rainforests of New Guinea.

Woodpeckers Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers.

Kinkajou Kinkajou is a tropical rainforest mammal of the family Procyonidae related to olingos, coatis, raccoons, and the ringtail and cacomistle.

Brushtail possum The brushtail possum is a common tree-dwelling marsupial. It is native to Australia and Tasmania.

Eastern gray squirrel Eastern gray squirrel is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is native to eastern North America.