TH115+Koala

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Description The koala is not a real bear. However they are marsupials along with kangaroos and wallabies. Their babies are called joeys, and koala mothers are most likely to give birth to only one joey per year. When the joey is born it is about the size of a jellybean, and is completely covered in fur with functioning eyes and ears. The koala is born with an advanced sense of smell and touch, but you shouldn't get too close to one because these advanced senses make them weary of the tinniest things, causing them to be very ferocious, so they  may attack you. Koalas are generally gray with white spots located on their inner arms, and ears, but can also be sort of brown. They have big furry ears and a leathery nose. They are about 33 inches in length. Koalas generally smell like cough drops due to their diet of eucalyptus leaves. Koalas in the cooler southern area of Australia are bigger and have thicker fur than koalas from the northern part of Australia. When a newborn koala latches on to a nipple in its mother’s pouch, the nipple swells up so that the koala can not be disconnected from it’s food source. A koala’s scientific name is Phascolarctos cinereus. Koalas have thick woolly fur that keeps them warm, cool, and acts as a raincoat. Koalas are legally allowed to be hunted</range id="461077768_3">. A koala spends <range type="comment" id="461086634_2">only four to five hours a day napping or resting.</range id="461086634_2"> Female koalas are larger than male koalas.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Habitat <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Koalas live in forests with eucalyptus trees. The eucalyptus leave is their main food source. There are many <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">types of eucalyptus trees and koalas will eat from all <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"> of them. Adult koalas prefer bamboo over eucalyptus leaves though. A joey will leave its mother's pouch to eat leaves after about seven months. Over four fifths of original koala habitat has been destroyed. Koalas live in trees, but they sometimes come down to the ground to look for shade or other trees. They occasionally jump from one tree to the next. Koalas live in Australia and it’s neighboring islands.

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"><range type="comment" id="461077768_4"></range id="461077768_4"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The koala feeds on this pap as well as the milk that it is already getting pap comes from a mother koala’s intestines and has bacteria that a baby koala has to have in it’s own intestines to digest an adult diet. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> > </range id="461086634_1"> > > <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Video: <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="24128508"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">A mother koala is pregnant for nine months before giving birth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">A baby koala stays in its mother's pouch to grow and develop for about seven months after it is born.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">When a baby koala has been in its mother's pouch for about six months, the mother starts to produce a substance called pap.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">A joey grows and develops mostly in it's mother's pouch.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">When a newborn koala latches on to a nipple in its mother’s pouch, the nipple swells up so that the koala can not be disconnected from it’s food source.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">full grown male koalas have brown scent glands in the center of their white chests
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">They rub these on their home trees so that they can mark their territory
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">female koalas live about ten years, while male koalas live a few years longer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">koalas have rough paws that act as traction so they don’t slip off trees while trying to quickly get away from predators
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">the koala usually mates between the months of April and August
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">female koalas start to mate with male koalas when they’re around three or four years old
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">when a baby koala is born it is pink and hairless
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"><range type="comment" id="461086634_1">the babies are usually five centimeters long and weigh about two grams

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">True or false: <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">T/F a mother koala gives birth to 5-6 babies in her lifetime <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">T/F Koalas are legally allowed to be hunted <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">T/F Koalas sleep more than 16 hours a day to store energy <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">T/F Eucalyptus trees are the koalas main source of food and shelter <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">T/F Three fifths of koala habitat has been destroyed