All about Koalas!

Ok guys, this is for Booga so make it good!!

Koalas look similar to wombats, but they have a thicker, more luxurious coat, larger ears, and longer limbs, which have large, sharp claws that assist with climbing. Koalas weight varies between 14kg and 5kg. The fur is thick- not soft and cuddly. The koala is one of the frew mammals that has fingerprints. Koala fingerprints look remarkably similar to human fingerprints.

Female koalas reach maturity around 2 or 3 years of age, while males do not until 3 to 4 years. Healthy females can produce one baby koala per year for up to 12 years. The gestation period is only 35 days, and occurs after mating which is normally between December and March (the summertime in Australia).

A baby koala is called a “joey” and is hairless, earless, and blind. They are the size of jelly beans at birth and remain in the mother’s pouch for about 6 months while developing and growing ears, eyes, and fur. The total number of koalas alive today is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands.

 

cool

 

They sort of remind me of myself -

"Like wombats and sloths, the Koala..... rests motionless for about 16 to 18 hours a day, sleeping most of that time."

 

perhaps they're just meditating...

 

naahhh, their one singular source of food is very low in nutrients and simultaneously houses toxins, so they have to sleep a great deal because it takes a lot of metabolic energy for them to digest their food.

but I mean, they also could just be really really lazy. like me. I try to stay in dream world as much as I can.

 

you really should stop eating eucalyptus leaves, you know. :toetap05:

 

but they're grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreaaat!

 

stop getting your nutritional advice from Tony the Tiger!

 

hey, I grew up with that guy.

His smiling face got me through some very tough mornings.

 

Don't be fooled! He was obviously high on speed.

 

even high on speed, he's still a damn fine american. :cheers2:

 

He'll bring you down, man!






Oh and he's Asian-American, actually.

 

You get kola instead.

 

i fantasize about being lost in austrailia and a family of koala's stuffing my face full of eucalyptus leaves so i don't die as i lay there in the hot sun passed out.

 

and this is a good thing right?

 

yes. then a giant one comes along and crams me into it's pouch where i drink my fill of fresh koala milk until i'm healthy enough to make it back to the human population.

 

hehe, when I first read that I was like "oh my".

 

and then i sit in my window at night, dreaming of my koala family. one night i get up the nerve to run away and rejoin my koala brothers in the wild outback. as i walk up on them, i hear them weeping and sighing heavily. i walk into the moonlight and they all stare at me, as if they can't believe it... there i am.. they realize i'm not just a dream. all night we party and drink eucalyptus beer until we are so drunk we are just peeing ourselves.

 

don't you just hate it when that happens? or... do you love it?

anyways, I think that's a worthwhile dream. In fact, it's just the sort of dream I have about the Bonobo monkeys. Oh how I wish to be with them again. *sigh*

 

now all i have to do is swim to austailia before 2012 when the poles switch and destroy most of the earth.