Chelsea Swinburne
Mrs Hooker
About Koalas.
The Koala is a well-known and popular animal, endemic to Australia but recognised around the world. It is a tree-dwelling marsupial with large furry ears, a prominent black nose, long sharp claws adapted for climbing and no tail. Fur colour varies from pale grey in North Australia to grey-brown in the South.
Breeding & lifecycle
Koalas live for between 10 and 20 years, and usually breed between September and February . Female Koalas can breed from two years of age, and have a gestation period of about two months. They commonly produce one Koala a year though on rare occasions they can produce twins. After the young Koala is about one year old, its mother is able to mate again
Where they live
Koalas are basically solitary animals and live in relatively well-defined home ranges. In breeding aggregations these home ranges abut or partially overlap adjacent home ranges of other individuals.
Koala sleeping on a tree top
A koala climbing up a tree. Taken on the 28th of J...
English: River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) ...Home ranges will most often consist of an alpha male whose home range the encompasses a number of female's home ranges, each female will have her defined area within this range.
What they eat/diet
Koalas are folivors and feed on a diet that is nearly entirely made up of eucalyptus, but they will occasionally eat non-eucalyptus species such as brush box. Some of the main species in south-east Queensland are:
Blue Gum Eucalyptus
Grey gum Eucalyptus
River Red Gum Eucalyptus
Biology
Koala's are arboreal (tree-dwelling) marsupials, and the only member of the family Phascolarcolidae, with a distribution over most of the eastern part of Australia, although the populations are largely fragmented.
History
With a change of government, in August 1996, the new government advised the akf in writing that it intended to upgrade...