Why are koalas fur the color they are?

Answer 1

The grey colouring of a koala helps it to be camouflaged when it is sitting high in gum trees. Gum trunks and branches are dappled in appearance, and the colouring of the grey koala enables it to blend in.

Answer 2

Koalas are not only grey. Koalas have woolly light to dark grey fur with brown and white patches and a cream belly.

The grey of a koala's fur enables it to camouflage easily among the grey-green of a typical gum tree. This colouring is very effective. It was ten years after European settlement in Australia before koalas were even known to exist.

Answer 3

There is only one species of koala, and many debates over whether sub-species exist. Regardless, koalas from the southern regions of Australia tend to be larger and browner, whilst northern koalas are smaller, with grey fur.

Answer 4

Koalas are not only grey and white. Koalas have woolly light to dark grey fur with brown and white patches and a cream belly.

The natural colouring of a koala, together with its tendency to stay still for hours, helps them to camouflage. The first European settlers in Australia did not even know the koala existed for the first eleven years of settlement, even though the animals were prolific in the Sydney Cove area. When koalas nestle high in gum trees, the light filtering past the gum leaves has a dappled look on both the koalas and the gum branches which are similarly dappled. This makes it much more difficult to detect koalas in trees.

Answer 5

Koalas are not really greyish-white.

Koalas are various shades of light to darker grey with a tendency towards brown in southern area, and a cream belly. When they nestle high in gum trees, the light filtering past the gum leaves has a dappled look on both the koalas and the gum branches which are similarly dappled. This makes it much more difficult to detect koalas in trees.

Answer 6

same question as why is our hair the color it is it can never be answered

Answer 7

No, there is only one species of koala. Koalas are the only surviving species of the family Phascolarctidae. They are all grey in colour, with southern koalas tending to brown.

Answer 8

All koalas are essentially grey, with some having tinges of brown fur.

Answer 9

cos it's the pigmentation of their fur!!!