Koala Phascolarctos cenereus Mother and baby Australia
Koala Phascolarctos cenereus Mother and baby Australia Range is from southestern Queensland through eastern New South Wales and Victoria to southeastern South Australia Confined to eucalyptus forests as eucalyptus leaves form the main diet Is largely nocturnal and completely arboreal only occasionally coming to the ground to shuffle slowly to another food tree or to lick up soil or gravel which serves as a digestive aid Numbered in the millions until a drastic decline in numbers started in the early 1900s due to clearing of woodland habitat and demand for its fur Only a few thousand left in the late 1920s Now legally protected
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