Exempel på koala

• Koalas and monkeys climb trees with their arms. 

• Koalas can climb trees that are 30 to 60 meters high. 

• Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves. 

• Koalas have strong arms and sharp claws to climb trees where they eat and sleep. 

• Koalas sleep for most of the day because the weather in Australia can be very hot. 

• Koalas weigh 5–14 kilograms. 

• Some animals only come from Australia, like the koala and the platypus. 

• Some people say the Aborigine word koala means “does not drink,” but this is wrong. 

• The government decided to pay money to make a tunnel under the road for the koalas to use. 

• The koala gets a lot of water from the plants it eats, but like every animal it also drinks water when it’s thirsty. 

• The koala is a very beautiful animal with gray hair and a black nose. 

• The koalas needed to go easily and safely from one place to another for food. 

• Analysis of koala populations at intermediate geographic distances would be required to assess gene flow accurately.

• What is more, several mammal species including the taciturn koala have it permanently lowered.

• Since wombats are cousins of the koala, this seems highly appropriate.

• Thus, among names for animals, we have: kangaroo, koala, wombat, brumby (a wild horse), galah (a small, pink and grey cockatoo), barramundi (a lungfish) and bunyip (a fabulous amphibious monster).

• I refer not to a wallaby or a koala, but to a television interviewer who did not treat her with sycophantic self-abasement.

• Unlike most other marsupials, the koala does not clean her pouch.

• In koalas, wombats and marsupial moles, the pouch opens backward or down.

• For example, a koala bear (see below) looks and acts much like a bear, but in actuality, it is quite distinct and unrelated.

• Because of the koala's resemblance to a bear, it was often miscalled the koala bear, particularly by early settlers.

• The koala has several adaptations for its eucalypt diet, which is of low nutritive value, of high toxicity and high in dietary fibre.

• While the hindgut is proportionally larger in the koala than in other herbivores, only 10% of the animal's energy is obtained from fermentation.

• Camphor laurel invades rainforests and pastures, and also competes against eucalyptus trees, certain species of which are the sole food source of koalas.

• A well-known example of a specialist animal is the koala, which subsists almost entirely on eucalyptus leaves.

• Kangaroos and koalas inhabit the more open eucalpyt woodlands, and kookaburras feed their chicks in the nest hole.

• The leaves are commonly eaten by insects, and are a food item for the koala.