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The koala bearInroduction     The koala bear is the Australian jewel. It has very furry, alter colored hair,a rubbery black nose, sharp claws, fuzzy ears, and a grizzly personality, orshould I say, koalality. If you kill a koala, youll catch up with a million off theirfur They would sell the fur to coat companies and make coats out of koala fur.Well, sadly enough, too many people are making millions on koalas. Thats whytheyre endangered species.Habitat     The koala is distributed along the eastern coastal semi-tropical forestsof Australia, ranging from north Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and a dwarfish area in the south of Australia.Breeding     The male koala and the feminine koala have two very different mating calls.When humanness reach their sexual maturity at around the age of 14 or 15, koalasreach their sexual maturity at the age of two. The womanly produces one babyevery other year. The koala almost neer produces twins. In the females pouch,there are two nipples. The female koala gives yield after a 20-35 day gestationperiod. When the joey (baby koala) is born, it is no longer than 2 cm andweighs no more than a 1/2 gram. The joey corset in its mothers pouch for 5-7months. The term "joey is used when you are talking near a baby marsupial.The mother gives "pap to the joey, a liquid from the caecum (which is similarto the human organ, appendix.) This is thought to give the joey the ability toeat merely eucalyptus tree leaves. When the joey emerges from the pouch, it clings toits mother for another(prenominal) seven months. The joey stays with its mother for anotherthree or four years, until it is fully grown.Diet     Koalas eat eucalyptus and dont drink water. I guess thats how theygot their name. In the aboriginal language, "koala" authority "no drink water."But, the koala does drink water, lone(prenominal) when it is ill. Out of the 350 species ofeucalyptus, the koala can only eat 20, will only eat 5, and only prefers to eata certain one.Population and Extinction     Since the koala population has dropped since 50% since the turn of thecentury, the Australian government passed a law censor anything harmful to thekoalas. At first, in the 1920s they were killed for their fur. Then, somehow,a high perce... ...e      New capital of South CarolinaEncyclopdia, 1975 ed., p. 1491      (New York Columbia University Press)Bergh, John. Austrailian Koala Hospital Assosiation,      Inc. Koala Facts Sheet,     http//onthenet.com.au/jbergh/koala2.htm      (Sydney onthenet.com)Bergh, John. Austrailian Koala Hospital Assosiation,      Inc. Koala Facts Sheet,     http//onthenet.com.au/jbergh/koala4.htm      (Sydney onthenet.com)Bergh, John. Austrailian Koala Hospital Assosiation,      Inc. Koala Facts Sheet,     http//onthenet.com.au/jbergh/koala1.htm      (Sydney onthenet.com) being Book Encyclopdia, 1996 ed., 11361 (Chicago      World Book, Inc.)Payne, Oliver. "Koala Out on a Limb," field of study Geographic Magazine, April,1995 (Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society Press)Academic American Encyclopdia, 1994 ed., 12103.      (Danbury Grolier, Inc.)