What do they do during the day?


What do they do in general?

  • The koalas sleep more than 95 % of the day.
  • The koalas live in the trees and realize the majority of his activities by night.
  • They are not comfortable in the soil, where they walk to cats.
  • To save energy, they sleep 20 hours a day, more than the lazy ones, that they sleep approximately 18 daily hours
  • 3 % of the day, that is to say, the time that they are awake, eats between 2 and 3 kilos of eucalyptus

 What do they eat?

  • The koalas eat principally of the plant of eucalyptus.
  • This way it is that it is very necessary to cultivate more eucalyptuses for the survival of the koalas.

Curiosities:

  • Some of the trees marked with excrements use as place of meeting, reason for which they play a decisive paper in the stability of the population.
  • While the koalas males mark his territory with the smell of his mammary glands, the koalas females use the smell of his urine.