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  2. Koala - Wikipedia

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    The song "Ode to a Koala Bear" appears on the B-side of the 1983 Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson duet single Say Say Say. [11]: 151 A koala is the main character in animated cartoons in the early 1980s: Hanna-Barbera's The Kwicky Koala Show and Nippon Animation's Noozles.

  3. Drop bears: The true history of a fake Australian animal - AOL

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    The rise of the drop bear. If the Drop Bears had been formed just 20 years later, they might not have had to explain their name so often. In the age of the internet, the myth of the drop bear has ...

  4. Phascolarctos - Wikipedia

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    The type species, the modern koala, was named as Lipurus cinereus by G. A. Goldfuss in 1817, later combined as Phascolarctos cinereus. [5] Goldfuss published this name with a reproduction of John Lewin's 1803 illustration of the species in New South Wales. An accepted synonymy of other generic names referring to Phascolarctos was published in ...

  5. Phascolarctidae - Wikipedia

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    The Phascolarctidae (φάσκωλος (phaskolos) - pouch or bag, ἄρκτος (arktos) - bear, from the Greek phascolos + arctos meaning pouched bear) is a family of marsupials of the order Diprotodontia, consisting of only one extant species, the koala, [1] and six well-known fossil species, with another six less well known fossil species, and two fossil species of the genus Koobor, whose ...

  6. Toy Koalas Pop Up Around New York City to Raise Money ... - AOL

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    Toy koalas were placed around the streets of New York City on January 10 in an effort to raise money for wildlife rescuers and carers in Australia as bushfires killed animals and destroyed ...

  7. Drop bear - Wikipedia

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    The koala is the main inspiration for the myth of the drop bear. The drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala. This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists.

  8. Black bears in New York: How many are there and how big do ...

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    The average female adult bear in New York is typically around 160 pounds and the average male adult bear's weight is around 300 pounds. According to Curtis, some of the bigger ones have weighed ...

  9. Koala emblems and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge is a PC game with a koala as the main character. The Guru from Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves is an aboriginal guru koala who is Murray's dreamtime teacher, as well as one of the new recruited members of the Cooper Gang. Koala Kong appears as a boss in Crash Bandicoot and as a playable character in Crash Bash.