Koala bears aren't bears: They're marsupials.
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Koalas sleep up to 20 hours a day.
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Koalas are excellent swimmers.
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Koalas store leaves in their cheek pouches to eat them later.
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Koalas hug trees
to cool off on hot days.
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Female koalas, when in captivity, can engage in lesbian behaviour.
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Koalas have human-like fingerprints.
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Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers.
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Australian koalas are in danger of extinction because over half of them have chlamydia.
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Darwin suggested the appendix may have been used for digesting leaves. This theory is supported by koala and horse appendixes which do just that.
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A koala's brain is only 0.2% of its body weight.
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There were over 10 million koalas before British settlers arrived in Australia. Now, there are around 43,000 in the wild.
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Australia has 10 times more camels than koalas.
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Koalas, Iguanas, Komodo dragons and
most marsupials have a bifurcated penis.
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Due to their small brains, koalas are unable to perform complex, unfamiliar tasks such as eat leaves off of flat surfaces.
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