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Perhaps one of the most recognized Australian animals, the Koala is always a popular attraction at zoos and wildlife parks.
Koala's main diet is Eucalyptus leaves, and they have a specialized digestive system that allows them to tolerate the enzymes in the leaves. They barely drink water and sleep for 18--20 hours a day. Despite their quiet looks, they produce loud bellowing calls, especially during he breeding season.
Koala habitat is threatened by increasing urbanization and bushfires.
And, in spite of often being called a Koala Bear, they are not bears nor related to bears in any way.
Koala bears are not actually bears, they are marsupials that live only in Australia. Their closest living relatives are wombats, another Australian marsupial. Eucalyptus leaves are the only food a koala eats and they can eat up to 2.5 pounds a day. They eat so many eucalyptus leaves that they actually smell like the leaves. This furry guy was chowing down on his lunch when we captured this shot.
Famous for their adorable teddy bear appearance and tendency to snooze all day, the koala is internationally recognized and loved. But their numbers are under threat across Australia, they have been labelled "functionally extinct". man-made world introduces new threats for koalas. As housing estates and busy roads encroach into koala habitat, they’re left vulnerable to road accidents, dog attacks and an imminent spread of life-threatening diseases such as chlamydia. Today, koala numbers are at an all-time low.
A koala's diet is composed mainly of eucalyptus leaves from eucalyptus trees that grow in Australia. Koalas eat around 1 to 2 pounds of these leaves each day. But they are known to consume even more when they are lactating. Eucalyptus leaves are toxic to many animals, but koalas can detoxify it through their unique digestive system (Wikipedia)
junger Koala aus dem Duisburger Zoo, die bei schönem Wetter auch mal wieder im Außengehege zu sehen waren.
One more shot of this cute little koala in the tree. One of the favorite attractions in the zoo but they do not like the mass of people around them.
If they have the chance to get indoors in the animal house they take it.
Two misconceptions about koalas.
One they are not bears nor are they in any way related to bears. They were called bears by the English settlers who thought 'they looked like bears'.
And two they must like to be held.
No,these guys don't like sudden changes. So being placed in a strangers arms is not their idea of fun, in fact it is a very stressful experience for the koala.
Une autre prise d'un koala en pleine action. Photographié dans le parc David Fleay à Burleigh Heads. Il était tellement bien caché que j'ai dû user de feeling pour l'avoir.
Another catch of Koala in its best days! Lol Caught in the famous David Fleay's Wildlife Park in Burleigh Heads. I had some difficulties to catch this one.
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Canon 400D – Sigma 18-200 – 1/60 - Iso 400 - f6.3 - 115mm – priorité ouverture
Koalas are often called as "koala bears" - this is not correct. Koala is not a bear but a marsupial.
Koalas prefer to move around just after sunset spending daytimes asleep in the fork of a tree. Koala spends sleeping 75% of its time. Just after sunset koalas move around and can often be heard "barking" aggressively at other koalas.
This is just 2 seconds when they opened the eyes and..... i took quick... snap..snap!!
Here is one of a number of Koala that were quite happily lazing around in the Eucalyptus trees near Flinders Chase on Kangaroo Island, SA.
It is said that around 25,000 koalas have been killed by the bushfires in Australia over the last six months. This is nearly half of the estimated total population before the fires. It is still not clear whether we humans were the direct cause of these fires. Nevertheless, our planet is showing symptoms of exhaustion directly caused by us. We must always remember that we need nature and nature does not need us. We must conserve our planet, as it is a treasure that we do not deserve.
I was very lucky to see a koala in the wild a few weeks ago at White Rock Conservation Park near Springfield, Queensland.
One of Australia’s most striking animals, the koala or inaccurately ‘koala bear’ (Phascolarctos cinereus), is bear-like in appearance, but in fact a tree-dwelling marsupial, related to kangaroos and wombats.
The Koala has many nicknames, include bangaroo, New Holland sloth, cullawine, and koolawong.
The fur is silver grey to light brown, being lighter and shorter in the warmer north of its range, where the koala is also smaller. An adult male koala can weigh 8 to 14 kg and a female 5 to 11 kg, the body length is 60 to 85 cm. Koalas have sharp claws which help them climb trees and large noses that are coloured pink or black.
Koalas live in the eucalyptus woodlands and forests of eastern and south-eastern Australia and range from northern Queensland to southwestern Victoria. They have been introduced in western Australia and nearby islands.
Koalas are nocturnal marsupials famous for spending most of their lives asleep in trees. During the day they doze, tucked into forks or nooks in the trees, sleeping for up to 20 hours. When not asleep a koala feeds on eucalyptus leaves, especially at night. Koalas do not drink much water and they get most of their moisture from these leaves. In Aborigine language, the word ‘koala’ means ‘no water’.
This picture was taken in Zoo Duisburg, Germany.
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De koala of buidelbeer (Phascolarctos cinereus) is een buideldier uit de familie koala's (Phascolarctidae) die voorkomt in het oosten van Australië. De koala is geen beer, maar een buideldier, nauw verwant aan de kangoeroes. Vandaar ook de bijnaam: Bangaroo.
De naam "Koala" komt uit een uitgestorven aboriginaltaal die rond Sydney werd gesproken. Het zou zoiets betekenen als "drinkt niet", verwijzend naar het feit dat de koala zelden drinkt.
Het mannetje weegt zo'n 12 kg, het vrouwtje 8 kg. Ze worden ongeveer 60 à 85 cm lang. In het noordelijke verspreidingsgebied wegen koala's bijna de helft minder. Zuidelijke koala's hebben een dikkere vacht dan die in het warmere noorden. De kleuren van de vachten variëren sterk per individu en worden lichter naarmate koala's ouder worden, maar de meeste zijn grijs met wit op de kin, borst, voorpoten en romp. Koala's hebben een korte staart, die geen functie lijkt te hebben.
Koala's komen voor in de eucalyptusbossen van de vier oostelijke deelstaten van Australië, Queensland, Nieuw-Zuid-Wales, Victoria en Zuid-Australië.
Koala's eten bijna uitsluitend bladeren van de eucalyptusboom. De bladeren zijn vezelrijk en bevatten gif dat voor de meeste andere dieren gevaarlijk is. Ze drinken bijna niet. Vocht wordt uit het voedsel gehaald. Omdat koala's een langzaam vertering hebben, slapen koala's zo'n 20 uur per etmaal, vaak in een boom.
Deze foto is gemaakt in Zoo Duisburg in Duitsland.
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Port Macquarie has a large koala population and this being the case we also have a koala hospital and all the time I have lived here I have never once gone to visit it but last week I did.
It was really great, you could walk through and look at them in their tree sleeping and there was also a viewing window to the hospital surgery area but when I was there nothing was going on.
Many of the koalas there are there because of dog attacks, vehicle accidents or burn victims who have been transported to the hospital to recover.
Here is a link to the hospital if you are interested.
I have seen koalas before but not close up and I was thrilled to do this.
Being a tourist in my hometown has made me view it so differently.