Transcript Koala Adaptations - Mrs. Coupe's Scoop

Lazy Marsupial 
By: LR
Some are 3
feet most are
2 feet
•Small ears
•Big
noses
•Not
good
vision
Weighs
between 10 to
30 pounds
ears
nose
Physical Features
 Small furry ears
 Large black nose
 Little mouth
 Their chest is white
 The rest of their body is grayish
 Big nails on their hands and feet
 Little black squinty eyes
 Koalas can’t live much longer because 80 percent of
the habitat is lost.
 People are cutting down their trees
 They are making houses/malls/golf courses and
roads
 People are not caring for koalas
Koalas can
live up to 17
years in
expectancy
male koalas
live up to 10
years
•Koalas live in
Australia
Queensland is
not good for
koalas because it
•They live in cold is too hot
areas but not too
cold
They like
eucalyptus trees
They like
Australia
because they
have more
forests
landforms
The koala mostly lives in the forest
The koala lives in the northern
and western Australia
Koalas never like to be hot!
Koalas live in the coldest part of
Australia they like to be cold
Food and Prey
The koala eats eucalyptus leaves
•They don’t have prey
•They are herbivores
•They also drink
milk
•Their predators
are dingoes
behavior
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The koala is smart and stays in their
tree because they are slow on ground
Dingoes are fast and they can eat
koalas
Koalas are mainly nocturnal because
it’s cooler out at night
Koalas do not live in families
The koala when it gets in its tree they
stay there
The koala scratches its tree to
remember the tree
The other koala can’t take the tree
When the koala dies they have to wait
a year until it takes the tree
Reproduction
A koala as a baby is called a Joey
When it is born it cant hear and it has no fur
The size of when it is born is a size of a kidney bean
Male koalas make a bellowing sound to attract females
Physical Adaptations
 It can get windy up in the trees but
koalas have thick fur to keep them
warm. It is called insulating ability
 Each paw has five digits to help it
grip the trees
 Rough pads on the palms and soles
help it to grip tree trunks
 On the hind paw, there is no claw on
the biggest digit and the third digits
are fused together to form a doubleclawed digit which is used for
grooming purposes, such as for
removing ticks.
Behavioral Adaptations
 Koalas like to sleep a lot but
when they need food they
climb 150 feet to get the leaves
 They may even leap through
the air to get to a new tree to
get leaves
 They make billowing sounds to
attract females
 They keep their tree as their
home because there are not a
lot of trees available to them.
Physiological Adaptations
 They have bad vision so they
rely on their hearing
 Its body is lean and muscular
and its long, strong limbs
support its weight when
climbing
Fun Facts
 When koalas aren't eating they are sleeping
 Koalas don’t have nests
 They wrap themselves into a ball when they
sleep
•Males are larger
than females