KOALA

By shane munnelly.

WHERE THEY LIVE The koala is an arboreal herbivorous

marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. Scientific name: Phascolarctos

cinereusRank: SpeciesHigher classification: Phascolarctos

Scientific name: Phascolarctos cinereusRank: SpeciesHigher classification: Phascolarctos

WHERE THEY LIVE

Koalas are native to Australia. They are not found in any other country in the world. Koalas are found in all states of Australia except Tasmania and Western Australia. Most koalas in South Australia were exterminated, but they were repopulated with some Victorian koalas. Koalas spend nearly all of their time living in trees. They climb them with their sharp claws and long toes. They sleep during the day and move between trees, and eat, during the night. They sleep a lot as it is very hard to digest their primary source of food- eucalyptus leaves. Each koala has a ‘home’ of several trees that they visit often. Koalas do not visit other koala’s homes, unless a male koala is looking for a female koala to mate with.

Here is some koala images