The Koala
Inroduction
is the Australian jewel. It has very furry, ash colored hair,
a rubbery black nose, sharp claws, fuzzy ears, and a grizzly personality, or
should I say, koalality. If you kill a koala, you'll make a million off their
fur! They would sell the fur to coat companies and make coats out of koala fur.
Well, sadly enough, too many people are making millions on koalas. That's why
they're endangered species.
Habitat
The koala is distributed along the eastern coastal semi-tropical forests
of Australia, ranging from north Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and a
small area in the south of Australia.
Breeding
The male koala and the female koala have two very different mating ...
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is used when you are talking about a baby marsupial.
The mother gives "pap� to the joey, a liquid from the caecum (which is similar
to the human organ, appendix.) This is thought to give the joey the ability to
eat only eucalyptus leaves. When the joey emerges from the pouch, it clings to
its mother for another seven months. The joey stays with its mother for another
three or four years, until it is fully grown.
Diet
Koalas eat eucalyptus and don't drink water. I guess that's how they
got their name. In the aboriginal language, "koala" means "no drink water."
But, the koala does drink water, only when it is ill. Out of the 350 species of
eucalyptus, the koala can only eat 20, will only eat 5, and only prefers to eat
a certain one.
Population and Extinction
Since the koala population has dropped since 50% since the turn of the
century, the Australian government passed a law banning anything harmful to the
koalas. At first, in the 1920's they were killed for their fur. ...
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