Koalas “Koala Bear” or “Native Bear”. These are some of the names you may have referred to those cute little fuzzy Australian marsupials, koalas, though really koalas have no relation to any bear species. Koalas are marsupials, which means that the females have a pouch, and give birth to very undeveloped babies, or joeys. The joeys stay in their mothers pouch sucking on one of the mothers two nipples for the first seven months of …showed first 75 words of 212 total…

…showed last 75 words of 212 total…animals’ digestive system wouldn’t be able to obtain the oils and poisons in eucalyptus leaves, but koalas digestive system have evolved to accommodate the oils and poisons. When fully developed koalas have thick gray fur on their back and behind their ears. They have white fur on their stomaches. Their ears are round, and they have hardly any tail. They also have large hairless noses Koalas live in Eucalyptus tree forests in eastern Australia.