KOALAS
BREEDING
Koalas mate during October to February. The joey is born about five weeks later. The koala baby is called a joey. The joey is blind and has no hair. It's about the size of a jelly bean. It crawls into its mother's pouch and sucks on a little nipple to feed. It stays there for about a year before it is big enough to leave the pouch and ride on its mother's back.
INTRODUCTION
The koala is a mammal/marsupial. A marsupial is a animal with a pouch. The koala looks like a bear but with bigger ears. They are NOT bears!! It has a fluffy tail like a bunny rabbit, and it has grey fur.
THREATS
The koala's threats are the dingo. Also cars and snakes because cars run over them and snakes bite them.
DID YOU KNOW?
Koalas eat gum leaves not ordinary gum leaves but a special type of gum leaves. The koala is a mammal and a marsupial. There are only 6,000 to 8,000 koalas in the wild. The koala's scientific name is phasclarctas cinereus. The mother has a deep forward opening pouch. Koalas spend most of the day in trees.
© by Amber G. 2002