Describing an animal: koalas

KOALAS

            The Koala habitat is the east coast of Australia. It lives in the forest in the eucalyptus trees. From the marsupial’s family they look like teddy bears with big rounded head and big hairy ears.

            They eat mostly the eucalyptus leaves and are herbivore; they’re very selective with their food that’s why they smell the leaves before they eat. Koalas are nocturnal animals and most of their activities are done at night because they sleep 20 hours a day in order to save energy.

             Koalas became endangered for two reasons, firstly they’re hunted for their beautiful grey fur, and secondly a large area of their habitat is destroyed either by humans who cut the forest or by natural circumstances from forest fires due to dry conditions.

             In order to protect the koala, the Australian government announced in 1937 that the Koala bear would be a protected species in all of Australia.

By Mº Candelaria Lonegro Borovchez