Koala+Bear

=Koala Bear=

=Quick Fact:= Most of the Koala live in Australia and they live in those tropical tree. Koala live in the forest and woodlands that you can find in the Eastern and South-Eastern coastal regions. They eat certain types of eucalyptus leaves. Koala fur is very soft and they also have hair on their ear too. =Basic Statistic:= Genus:Phascolarctos Cinereus Family:Phascolarctomorphia Order:Diprotodontia Class:Mammalia Phylum:Chordata Kingdom:Animal

=Ecology:= Koala predator are dogs, foxes, feral cats and dingoes. The prey are hawks,kites, powerful Owls and Wedge-Tailed Eagles. koala usually eat eucalyptus leaves and sometime they can become picky about their food. They can't find any eucalyptus leaves they will not eat at all. The trees that they eat gives them the stuff they need already and it provides food and water that they drink. they are also known as eating others food like wattle, tea tree, paperbark,and pine species but it is not part of their normal diet. =Physiology:= The koala have gray fur and they have big black nose, big round ears, round body and weigh about 14 to 20 pounds. Koala do not drink but they are able to get water from the eucalyptus leaves they eat. They breed from September to February. females usually breed from 2 years of age and male usually 3-4 years after they established their own territory. Males are extremely aggressive during the mating periods.after the mating they wait after thirty-five days, the female produces one joey weighing about 0.5 grams and about 2 cm long.

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