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What does a koala require?
eucalyptus and special diet
What is the koala's main food course?
Most of a koala's diet consists of eucalyptus leaves. While the foliage of over 600 species of Eucalyptus is available, the koala shows a preference for around 30.
What is the most expensive zoo diet to feed?
Well, in Albuquerque, the koala is the most expensive animal diet to feed! ($20,000 a year!)
What are the dingos diet?
dingos mosty eat rabbits, mice and sometimes koala bears
The leaves of the eucalytusb tree are the staple diet of witch Australian marsupial?
They are the staple food of the Koala.
What is the name of an Australian arboreal marsupial whose diet consists almost entirely of eucalyptus leaves?
a KOALA?
Do koalas live the rain forest?
The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, so you would not find it is an Amazon rain forest. The main diet of a koala is the leaves of the eucalyptus tree.
Are koala bears a specialized species?
There is no such as thing as a koala bear. It is just known as a koala, and has no connection to bears whatsoever. They could be said to be specialised as their diet consists mainly of eucalyptus leaves. Some do not even drink water, getting their liquid requirements for the eucalyptus leaves.
What animal breath smells like eucalyptus?
The animal that has a body and breath that smell like eucalyptus is the koala bear. This is because the koala's entire diet consists only of eucalyptus leaves. The average koala will eat around 2 1/2 pounds of leaves per day.
What do koala bears do during the day?
Because koala bears are nocturnal, they often sleep in trees during the day. This animal can sleep up to 20 years per day. Its diet consists mainly of eucalyptus leaves.
What doses Gray Koala eat?
The diet of koalas is mainly eucalyptus leaves or the leaves of gum trees. Their diet doesn't consist of much else because the ability to digest eucalyptus leaves is fairly specific to their species. For others, it is rather poisonous. The gray koala is able to detoxify the leaves and break them down for digestion.
Is the word Koala Aborigine for no food named so to ensure its safety from early tribal hunters?
Koala does not mean no food. Theories claim that Koala actually means "no water" in Aborigine because it rarely drinks, getting most its liquid requirements from its diet of eucalyptus leaves. However this has never been verified.
