Reference photo — Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Easy
Vulnerable
Not photographed yet
Distribution
Range
Loads the OpenStreetMap basemap and GBIF observation data from lna-dev.net.
Range: iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) · Base map: Natural Earth (public domain)
Quick facts
- Group
- Mammals
- Family
- Phascolarctidae
- Size
- 60–85 cm (length)
- Weight
- 4–15 kg
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Lifespan
- 13–18 yrs
- Habitat
- Eucalyptus forests, Open woodland, Riparian zones
About
The koala, sometimes inaccurately called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. Its closest living relatives are the wombats.
Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), abridged.