Koalas can climb trees that are 30 to 60 meters high.
Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves.
Koalas have strong arms and sharp claws to climb trees where they eat and sleep.
Koalas sleep for most of the day because the weather in Australia can be very hot.
Koalas weigh 5–14 kilograms.
Some animals only come from Australia, like the koala and the platypus.
Some people say the Aborigine word koala means “does not drink,” but this is wrong.
The government decided to pay money to make a tunnel under the road for the koalas to use.
The koala gets a lot of water from the plants it eats, but like every animal it also drinks water when it’s thirsty.
The koala is a very beautiful animal with gray hair and a black nose.
The koalas needed to go easily and safely from one place to another for food.
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Analysis ofkoalapopulations at intermediate geographic distances would be required to assess gene flow accurately.
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What is more, several mammal species including the taciturnkoalahave it permanently lowered.
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Since wombats are cousins of thekoala, this seems highly appropriate.
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Thus, among names for animals, we have: kangaroo,koala, wombat, brumby (a wild horse), galah (a small, pink and grey cockatoo), barramundi (a lungfish) and bunyip (a fabulous amphibious monster).
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I refer not to a wallaby or akoala, but to a television interviewer who did not treat her with sycophantic self-abasement.
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Unlike most other marsupials, thekoaladoes not clean her pouch.
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In koalas, wombats and marsupial moles, the pouch opens backward or down.
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For example, akoalabear (see below) looks and acts much like a bear, but in actuality, it is quite distinct and unrelated.
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Because of the koala's resemblance to a bear, it was often miscalled thekoalabear, particularly by early settlers.
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Thekoalahas several adaptations for its eucalypt diet, which is of low nutritive value, of high toxicity and high in dietary fibre.
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While the hindgut is proportionally larger in thekoalathan in other herbivores, only 10% of the animal's energy is obtained from fermentation.
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Camphor laurel invades rainforests and pastures, and also competes against eucalyptus trees, certain species of which are the sole food source of koalas.
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A well-known example of a specialist animal is thekoala, which subsists almost entirely on eucalyptus leaves.
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Kangaroos and koalas inhabit the more open eucalpyt woodlands, and kookaburras feed their chicks in the nest hole.
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The leaves are commonly eaten by insects, and are a food item for thekoala.
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