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Koalas from Victoria are twice as heavy as those from Queensland. [23]: 7 The species is sexually dimorphic: males are 50% larger than females. Males' noses are more curved [32] and sport chest glands, which are visible as bald patches. [23]: 55 The female's pouch opening is secured by a sphincter which holds the young in. [33]
The giant koala (Phascolarctos stirtoni) is an extinct arboreal marsupial which existed in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. Phascolarctos stirtoni was about one-third larger than the contemporary koala , P. cinereus , [ 2 ] and has an estimated weight of 13 kg (29 lb), which is the same weight as a large contemporary male koala.
The koala is listed in national conservation legislation as "Phascolarctos cinereus (combined populations of Qld, NSW and the ACT)", previously determined in 2012 to be "a species for the purposes of the EPBC act 1999" . [7] The koala was classified as Least Concern on the Red List, and reassessed as Vulnerable in 2014. [8]
Koalas don't have sweat glands, and during times of high heat and low rainfall, the animals simply can't endure the evaporation caused by panting or licking. Well, no wonder koalas love to hang ...
Heavy-browed mouse opossum (Marmosa andersoni) Subgenus Marmosa. ... Family Phascolarctidae (koala) Genus Phascolarctos. Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
A great white shark that washed ashore at a Cape Cod beach earlier this week is named Koala, and was known to local researchers, investigators said. Its cause of death is still a mystery, as a ...
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 ...
The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. The Koala is found in coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia, from near Adelaide to the southern part of Cape York Peninsula .