What are some important facts of a koala's diet?

However, koalas are especially adapted to eat this diet. They have a special part in their intestine, called a caecum (pronounced see-kum), which goes off from their main intestine and has a blind end. read more

Koalas eat a diet primarily of Eucalyptus leaves. To get more energy out of this diet, the Koala ferments part of what it eats in its gut. Koala facts teach us that the Koala doesn’t ferment the Eucalyptus leaves in its stomach. read more

Most of their time is spent sleeping because it requires a lot of energy to digest their toxic, fibrous, low-nutrition diet and sleeping is the best way to conserve energy - Koalas in the southern parts of Australia (left) are considerably larger and have thicker fur than those in the north (right). read more