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Koala: Fur
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Drawn from what the American Library Associationhas has named "the best collection of koala images available," Koalas: Zen in Fur, by Joanne Ehrich, is a truly global compilation of 320 mostly previously unpublished photographs. A total of 90 photographers from around the world contributed the images they captured of Australia's most beloved native. The photographs, accompanied by descriptions of koalas, make up the highest number of koala photographs ever published in a single book. More.
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Using its brown and gray fur, the koala can camouflage itself so they can hide from predators. Don't you think that the koalas might get hurt sitting on the sharp twigs, well they don't! Their bottoms are padded with so much fur, that they can sit on pointy branches and not get hurt! The koalas thick, fuzzy fur keeps them warm, but not too warm. Their sharp claws dig into the trees so that they don't fall off.
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Thick, woolly fur covers the koala’s body. For most koalas, white fur covers the throat and chest and fringes their rounded ears, but elsewhere on the body fur color and length vary depending on where they live. Koalas living in the cooler climates of the south have long fur that is gray-brown or cinnamon in color. Those found in tropical northern ranges have shorter fur that is light silvery-gray in color.
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The low energy yield of the koala's diet explains their slow, sedentary lifestyle. However, it is a myth that koalas are drugged by the poisonous compounds in eucalyptus leaves. What is true is that koala have one of the smallest brains of all marsupials relative to body size—only 0.2% of body weight—and this has been explained as a further response to diet, since the brain is one of the most energy-consuming of the body's organs.
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