- Koalas do not drink much water and they get most of their moisture from these leaves. In Aborigine language, the word 'koala' means 'no water'.
- This sedentary lifestyle can be attributed to the fact they have unusually small brains and survive on a diet of nutrient-poor leaves.
- Koalas are nocturnal marsupials famous for spending most of their lives asleep in trees. During the day they doze, tucked into forks or nooks in the trees, sleeping for up to 18 hours
- Koalas can easily exhaust its' own supply. Conservationists have to move groups of koalas to areas where food is plentiful.
- A newborn koala is only the size of a broad bean, blind and hairless.
- The young koala spends its first six months inside its mother's pouch. For the next two or three months it clings to its mother's fur during the day, returning to the safety of her pouch at night.