Koalas

Well, almost all animals do that when they don't know you, so there scared to death so the pee.

"How much can a koala bear" is a facetious Australian saying, not often used anymore, that reflects complete disillusionment. When faced with difficult circumstances, some Australians have been known to utter this phrase.

It is not known how or why the saying developed, but it partially arose out of the frustration associated with the fact that koalas are not bears yet overseas visitors insist on calling them "koala bears". In this phrase, the word "bear" is used as a verb, not a noun, but it is a play on the erroneous calling of koalas "koala bears".

Yes. A koala has 2 arms and two hind legs.

The name koala is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal word "gula", which means "no drink." The indigenous Ausralians had noticed that koalas rarely drink water. Koalas get their water from the leaves they eat, so they don't require fluid sustenance (although they will drink water in a drought or in extreme heat).

Certainly. Kolas have a range of vocalisations which they use to communicate with other animals. These include grunts, growls and hisses.

Although koalas are essentially solitary animals, they live in communities where the social structure is quite complex. Koalas are territorial, but each koala within the social group has its own specific range for feeding, which may or may not overlap the range of its neighbour. There is always one dominant male in each social group, but he is by no means the only male.

Koalas do feed alone and travel alone, but they understand their own social structure. When one of their community dies, another does not immediately move in and take its place. It takes about a year for the scent of the previous occupant to fade, and only then will another koala move in to its range.

Koalas are not primates. Koalas are marsupials.

Wild animals such as koalas do not eat "breakfast". They take the opportunity to eat whenever they feel like it. Koalas only ever eat certain types of eucalyptus leaves and flowers, and they often 'graze', eating continually for awhile.

Two main things: 1. A cure to the disease chlamydia which is affecting koalas' fertility, and thus resulting in reduced population. 2. Greater awareness of their specialised habitat, and reducing how much bushland is cut down for housing and roads.

A koala scat simply refers to the droppings of a koala.

Koalas are marsupials, and research suggests that the ability of marsupials to see is even better than that of humans. There is very little research on the colour vision specifically of koalas, but other research has identified that marsupials can see all the colours of the spectrum, and some types of marsupials can even detect ultraviolet, which people (and many animals) cannot see. Their eye structure has the necessary cones which allow the eye to see in full colour. See the link below for more details.

Koalas would want food.

Koalas cannot live in rainforest, as it is not the source of their food, which is eucalyptus leaves.

Koalas use their limbs to find food. Koalas feed by climbing certain species of eucalyptus trees which are their favoured types. They reach out to grab leaves (and occasionally, eucalyptus blossoms) with their paws, which have opposable thumbs and enable them to grip their food.

Pandas are more poweful than koalas, and quite a bit larger. The panda would kill the koala if they fought. Even the smaller red panda would win against the koala.

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Koalas are northern animals and thrive at a temperature of anywhere from 10 to 37.7 degrees centigrade. Anything much over that pushes their limits and can be very harmful to their species.

Scientists can save Koalas by not cutting down trees and not moving them out of their natural habitat because they live longer in their natural habitat

The koala's pregnancy lasts for 33 to 36 days.

The gestation period is so short because most of the development of the young koala joey is done in the pouch.

That is a very difficult question.

Due to the lack of predators on Kangaroo Island, there is now a koala overpopulation problem on the island. The problem is, there are issues with relocating koalas because it is too difficult for them to integrate into an area which is not their natural territory if koalas already populate that region.

The suggestion has been made that the Kangaroo Island koalas be culled. This has led to an enormous outcry from the public and conservationists. One possible solution could be to relocate them to an area where there are no koala populations. Koalas have been introduced into protected colonies in Western Australia, and their favoured eucalyptus trees have also been introduced for their food supply. This would be a humane solution to the problem of the koalas on Kangaroo Island.

They are considered to be arboreal marsupials.

No. Koalas do not eat any animal proteins. They are purely herbivorous.

Yes.

Baby koalas (joeys) are born after a gestation period of just 35 days. After birth, the tiny, blind, hairless, bean-sized koala embryo emerges and moves into its mother's pouch, purely by instinct. At this stage it weighs about half a gram. Once in the mother's pouch, it then latches onto a teat, which swells in its mouth, securing it firmly so it does not fall out of the pouch. The koala baby, called a joey, feeds only on mothers' milk for 6-7 months.

To make the transition from mothers' milk to eucalyptus leaves, at about 6-7 months the joey begins to feed on "pap", which is actually a special form of the mother's droppings through which she can pass onto her joey the micro organisms which allow for digestion of eucalyptus leaves. No other animal lives solely on gum leaves, and special proteins are needed to digest them. One of the reasons the koala has a backward-opening pouch is so that the joey can stick its head out and feed on this pap which comes from the mother's own digestive system.

When the joey grows too large to fit in its mother's pouch, it still feeds a bit on mother's milk, lying on her stomach to feed, and spending the rest of its time firmly attached to her back. It only leaves "home" when the next breeding season starts.