Sparse and limited in distribution. Adults of both sexes have a strong musky odour produced by a sticky cream-coloured fluid which is often excreted from the vent when the animal is handled. Lives in the rainforest at about four hundred and fifty metres altitude. Strictly nocturnal, its days are spent in tree hollows. The Lemuroid Ringtail Possum has a leap of two to three metres which is made from one branch tip to another.
Legs outstretched, it lands heavily on dense foliage.
Flowers of the Brown Bollywood and the fleshy outer covering of the Yellow Walnut. Up to three individuals may share a den. Feeding aggregations of eight individuals have been recorded. They can be viewed with spotlights in the the Crater National Park. Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge Lake Eacham, Atherton Tableland Tropical North Queensland, Australia.