When a koala has found a suitable eucalyptus tree, it is not likely to climb down to the ground again until the leaf supply is diminished or it decides to take a drink from a stream. Click on the icons below to learn where koalas live, what they eat, how they hunt and how they reproduce. You can even pet a koala in Zoobooks Virtual Zoo!

Koalas look so much like living teddy bears that many people call them koala bears. But koalas are not bears at all. They are members of an unusual group of mammals called marsupials. Like all marsupials, koalas have pouches they use for carrying their babies. And the only thing cuter than a fuzzy, friendly- looking koala is a sleepy koala baby peering out of its mother's pouch.