The Koala is uniquely
Australian but is only found in isolated pockets of certain kinds
of eucalypt forest in Eastern Australia.
Its diet consists of
the leaves of just a few species of gum trees (eucalypts).
Koalas are usually
to be seen sleeping in the forks of branches high in the trees
as their food does not give them lots of energy and they spend
about 80% pf their life sleeping.
Although they are one
of Australia's best known and most popular animals their existance
is threatened by land clearing and the growth of urban areas
