Lazy Marsupial ?

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KOALA

• Lazy Marsupial ?

By LR
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Introduction

• Mammal species
• marsipial

• Some are 3 feet most are 2 feet

• Small ears

• Big noses

ears

• Not good vision

• Weighs between 10 to 30 pounds

nose
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Physical Features

• Small furry ears
• Large black nose
• Little mouth
• Their chest is white
• The rest of their body is grayish
• Big nails on their hands and feet
• Little black squinty eyes

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lifespan

• Koalas cant live much longer because 80 percent
  of the habitat is lost.
• People are cutting down their trees
• They are making houses/malls/golf courses and
  roads
• People are not caring for koalas
  

• Koalas can live up to 17 years in expectancy
  male koalas live up to 10 years

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Habitat and Climate

• Koalas live in Australia

• They like Australia because they have more forests

• Queensland is not good for koalas because it is
  too hot

• They live in cold areas but not too cold

• They like eucalyptus trees

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landforms

• The koala mostly lives in the forest

• The koala lives in the northern and western
  Australia

Koalas never like to be hot!
Koalas live in the coldest part of Australia they
like to be cold
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Food and Prey

• The koala eats eucalyptus leaves

• They dont have prey

• They are herbivores

• They also drink milk
• Their predators are dingoes

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behavior

• The koala is smart and stays in their tree
  because they are slow on ground
• Dingoes are fast and they can eat koalas
• Koalas are mainly nocturnal because its cooler
  out at night
• Koalas do not live in families
• The koala when it gets in its tree they stay
  there
• The koala scratches its tree to remember the tree
• The other koala cant take the tree
• When the koala dies they have to wait a year
  until it takes the tree

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Reproduction

• A koala as a baby is called a Joey
• When it is born it cant hear and it has no fur
• The size of when it is born is a size of a kidney
  bean
• Male koalas make a bellowing sound to attract
  females

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Physical Adaptations
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• It can get windy up in the trees but koalas have
  thick fur to keep them warm. It is called
  insulating ability
• Each paw has five digits to help it grip the
  trees
• Rough pads on the palms and soles help it to grip
  tree trunks
• On the hind paw, there is no claw on the biggest
  digit and the third digits are fused together to
  form a double-clawed digit which is used for
  grooming purposes, such as for removing ticks.

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Behavioral Adaptations

• Koalas like to sleep a lot but when they need
  food they climb 150 feet to get the leaves
• They may even leap through the air to get to a
  new tree to get leaves
• They make billowing sounds to attract females
• They keep their tree as their home because there
  are not a lot of trees available to them.

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Physiological Adaptations

• They have bad vision so they rely on their
  hearing
• Its body is lean and muscular and its long,
  strong limbs support its weight when climbing

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Fun Facts

• When koalas aren't eating they are sleeping
• Koalas dont have nests
• They wrap themselves into a ball when they sleep

• Males are larger than females