15 interesting facts about koalas


1) The koala sleeps up to 20 hours a day.

2) Koalas are excellent swimmers.

3) Koalas stick to trees to cool off on hot days


4) Koalas have footprints that resemble those of humans.


 5) Australian koalas are in danger of extinction because more than half of them have chlamydia


6) The brain of a koala weighs only 0.2% of its body weight.


7) Australia has 10 times more camels than koalas



8) There is a myth that the Koalas sleep a lot because they are drunk because of the gum leaves


9) Koalas are not bears , they are marsupials, which means that they carry their child in a pouch


10) An adult koalas eats between one or two kilogram of leaves each night.


11) When koalas are born, they are only 2 centimetres long, which is about as big as a jelly bean



12) The Koalas in the southern part of Australia are bigger and have thicker fur than those in the north. This is due to a climatic adaptation which allows them to keep their heat during the coldest winters of the south.


13) Koalas aren’t very social animals and spend just 15 minutes a day on socializing



14) It only takes 30-35 days for a koala to give birth


15) A koala’s belly fur can reflect solar radiation




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