Koalas

they are sometmes a purple a brown and a barky colour and a pink and a green and a yellow hope this helps

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.

Koalas have a limited colour range. Koalas have a woolly light to dark grey fur with brown and white patches and a cream belly. They have a broad head with small eyes, large furry ears and a distinctive large black nose. Females have two teats and a rear opening pouch. Mature males have a brown stain on their chest, the result of a gland which produces an orange coloured discharge. This is used to mark the trees the male climbs by rubbing this gland against the base of the tree and the trunk. Albino koalas have been recorded, but are extremely rare.

Koalas live in trees because all their needs are met in trees. They rely on certain species of eucalyptus trees for their food, and under normal conditions, they require no further water other than the moisture they obtain from the leaves.

Koalas shelter in trees as well, as their bodies have certain adaptations that enable them to to sit comfortably in trees for most of the day.

Koalas are not as slow as many believe them to be when on the ground, but when they move between their home trees, they are more vulnerable to ground-dwelling, introduced predators such as domestic dogs.

It means "living in trees most of the time"

Koalas are no longer used for their fur. This practice stopped in the early 20th century, after demand from the US and the UK for koala fur saw koala numbers drop to dangerously low levels. Koalas are now protected by law: it is illegal to hunt, kill or hurt them.

Someone adept at handling wild koalas for purposes such as medical treatment or research. Wild koalas will generally put up with humans coming quite close (compared with other wild animals), but if they need to be transported, they must be held in a particular way or transferred to a canvas bag to protect both the koala and handler from injury. Koala have very sharp non-contractable claws and strong front incisors for clipping off leaf; so scratches and bites are very likely if koalas are not handled properly. The kind of koalas they let you hold/pat at wildlife sancturies/parks are humanised, ie used to human contact (probably due to being orphaned as joeys and/or raised by humans for a number of years), so require less specialised handling. See "Diary of a Koalawrangler" at www.koalawrangler.com.

There are different methods, none of which give accurate figures for koala populations.

Most of this work is done by volunteers or researchers who conduct surveys by observations or by electronic tagging.

For the individual who is keen to learn more about how koala populations are monitored, click on the related link below. It takes you through to various koala research projects currently underway in Queensland.

Koalas do not live in areas where tree leaves are frozen, so the issue is purely academic. Koalas would turn up their noses at frozen leaves.

Like all mammals, koalas are endothermic. They maintain their constant internal body temperature through heat conservation strategies such as piloerection and shivering and through heat abatement strategies such as sweating, panting and seeking shade during the heat of the day.

The rest of the homeostatic body conditions (water balance, blood pressure, electrolyte balance, etc.) are maintain in similar ways through conservation and abatement mechanisms triggered by deficiency or excess.

Koalas have very strong claws suitable for gripping trees and climbing. Between their first and second "fingers" is a large gap, which enables them to also grip tree branches comfortably, whilst their hind legs have one toe set at a wide angle. They also have toes with thick pads which enable them to sit comfortably in a tree all day.

As with all marsupials, the koala has a pouch, where the joey stays after birth for up to ten months. When the joey leaves the pouch, it stays for several more months on the back of their mother. The pouch opens backwards. After about 30 weeks, the mother produces a substance called pap. This substance is actually a specialised form of the mother's droppings which, having passed through her digestive system, give the joey the enzymes it needs to be able to start digesting the tough gum leaves, making an easier transition for the baby koala to start eating eucalyptus leaves.

Koalas live in eucalyptus trees and eat only a few types of gum leaves from which they get all nutrients and water requirements. They also occasionally eat the gum tree blossoms. Two of the koala's digits on their forelimbs act as opposable thumbs, enabling koalas to reach out and grasp the leaves they want. Eucalyptus leaves are tough, toxic and low in nutrition, but the koala's digestive system is capable of removing the toxins, filtering them out by the liver. The caecum completes the process by changing the eucalyptus leaves into digestible nutrients.

Koalas drink water very rarely: they obtain almost all of their moisture needs from the eucalyptus leaves they ingest, although during times of heatwaves they will certainly drink water.

Koalas eat 200-500 grams of eucalyptus leaves per day to meet their energy requirements.

they eat eucalyptus leaves, bark, mistle toe, and box leaves.

get an infraram and shoot them theyll get out of their suits and bamm

Koalas' habitats are primarily being destroyed for housing. Urban expansion has meant that housing developments are encroaching upon native koala bushland, so this bushland is being destroyed just so people can live in that area. Farming and agriculture also impacts on koalas' habitats.

no way!!!!!

I am 'of mature years' - I sleep in pyjamas in Winter, naked in Summer.

The males have a brown patch of fur on their upper legs and groin area. It is the glands where the male gives off its scent for marking family territory. The females, not needing to mark their territory (hence the need for a mate), do not have these glands or fur coloration.

No. Koalas in captivity tend to live for a maximum of 18 years. This means one koala year equates to around five human years.

Koalas do exist. Koala bears don't. Someone has picked up this term but it is incorrect. Koalas are definitely not bears, but marsupials unique to Australia.

A koala is a marsupial mammal, therefore it is multicellular.

The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a marsupial mammal and is indigenous to Australia.

If the two animals occupied the same continent, a lion would probably eat a koala (which is not a bear) when it moved between trees.

However, lions do not eat koalas, for the simple reason that koalas are native to Australia alone, and there are no lions in Australia.