DOwnlOad.™ Koala Audio.Book by Michael Leach

The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the koala is found in coastal areas of the mainland's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia

koala, (Phascolarctos cinereus), also called koala bear, tree-dwelling marsupial of coastal eastern and southern Australia classified in the family Phascolarctidae (suborder Vombatiformes). The koala is about 60 to 85 cm (24 to 33 inches) long and weighs up to 14 kg (31 pounds) in the southern part of its range (Victoria and South Australia) but only about half that in subtropical Queensland

3) Although you may have heard people call them koala 'bears', these awesome animals aren't bears at all - they are in fact marsupials.A group of mammals, most marsupials have pouches where their newborns develop. 4) When an infant koala - called a joey - is born, it immediately climbs up to its mother's pouch. Blind and earless, a joey uses its strong sense of touch and smell

The San Diego Zoo received its first two koalas in 1925, as a gift from the children of Sydney, Australia, to the children of San Diego. They were named after characters in a famous Australian children's story by May Gibbs—Snugglepot and Cuddlepie—and were soon major celebrities. Over the next 34 years, the Zoo received koalas in 1928