2. Size: 70 - 90cm (27 - 36 inch) Weight: 4 - 9kg (9 - 20 lb) The males are larger than females. Southern koalas are 30% larger than the Northern koalas

3. Where do Koalas live?

4. Koalas can live as long as 17 years, however males life expectancy is less than 10 years

5. What do koalas eat? koala eats approximately 200 to 500 grams of leaves such as wattle tree, tea tree, paperbark tree per day

6. Koalas breed once a year. Mating normally occurs from September to March. Gestation lasts 35 days, after which one koala is born.

7. The young koala drinks only mother's milk for the first six to seven months, In the average, one female may produce only 5 or 6 baby koalas over her lifetime

8. Koala sleeps around 20 hours a day

9. The Koala prefers to move around neither in daylight or night, but rather just after sunset.

10. http://www.thekoala.com/koala/ http://www.koala.net/ed/children/kmask.htm http://australian-animals.net/