Koala

Koalas are the most known animals in Australia and we can find them in four different states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial and it looks like a little bear or a wombat but with bigger ears, a thicker coat and longer limbs.

Koala's diet is based only on eucalyptus leaves and that is the reason why they sleep most of the time (sometimes till 20 hours in a day). Sleeping saves energy. The leaves have some relaxing properties and the animals use a lot of energy to digest them. And by the way, those leaves are poisonous to almost all other animals.

CURIOSITIES ABOUT KOALAS:

- They hardly drink water ever;

- A baby stays in its mother's pouch for a few months after ir is born;

- The male koala has a bifurcade penis and the female has two lateral vaginas and two separate uteri;

- It is the only animal on Earth with such a strangely reduced brain;                  

- When under stress, koalas may issue a loud cry;

- A baby koala is reffered to as a joey and its hairless, blind and earless