Koala+bear

**Koala bear (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an australian marsupial. **


Koala is the only species left of the Phascolarctos animals.Koalas live in trees and eat the leaves of eucalyptus trees. These leaves are hard to digest and so koalas spend most of their day sleeping. They are nightanimals. Koala is awake about five hours per day, and it spends about three hours of it to eating.



 he major threat for koalas today is the destruction of their habitat. This is mostly because of humans cutting down the woods for agriculture and their own habitat. A big threat is also formed by bush fires. These fires could destroy the koala population quickly. In addition, koalas are known to have problems with chlamydia, which causes blindness and infertility for the females.  Koala bear isn't so big as it may seem on those above pictures. Koala bear weight about 14 kg, and it have to eat a lot to keep it's body working. Koala is usually quite silent animal, but sometimes it can make a very loud advertising calls and it could be heard over a kilometre away. In some cultures koala bears are respected, beacouse of the old stories says that disrespect to koala will cost a drought. Some of the indigenous Australians thought that Koala has lost his tale in a forest fires. Koala is also hanging around in some childrens tv programs, for example Vili Vilperi and Koala boy Kokki.

Christine Inkinen and Jenna Fyhr

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