LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Koala: Koalas
built 647 days ago
Promoting koala conservation, this ecotourism attraction has been essential for saving Phillip Island’s koala population and natural bush environment. The new close viewing area plays host to a special koala breeding program over the next year, ensuring it remains a key player in the conservation of these important animals.
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Clinical Innovations' Koala is a sensor-tip intrauterine pressure catheter that provides advanced tools and safety features. The Koala is safe, easy to insert, and helps confirm placement in the amniotic space. With true zero in utero, you can verify the proper calibration and function of the electronics at any time.
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The koala has a compact body with a broad head, large nose, and small eyes. The ears are large and rounded with white edges. Koalas have only a vestigial tail, which is of no assistance in climbing, but they have long, strong limbs, with large paws and sharp claws which are well adapted to grip smooth-barked eucalyts. Fore and hind feet have five digits, all with sharp, recurved claws, except for the first digit of the hind foot, which is short and broad. The first and second digits of the forefeet are opposable to the other three, allowing the animal to grip smaller branches and climb into the outer canopy in search of fresh leaves. The second and third toes of the hind feet are fused, with a double claw.
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A koala, like other marsupials, begins life in a very unusual way. When it is born, it is only about the size of a large jelly bean and is not yet fully developed. In fact, a newborn koala, called a joey, can't even see or hear, but it sure can climb! Soon after the joey is born, it uses strong forelimbs and hands to crawl from the birth canal into its mother's pouch. In this warm, safe place the joey attaches to one of two nipples, drinks milk, and grows during the next six months. Even after it starts leaving the pouch, a joey will return to the pouch when it wants to hide or sleep.
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Some koala conservation work, including purchase of land for protected reserves, is being carried out by state authorities, but much koala conservation and research is in the hands of charities and privately-run welfare organizations. The koala's cute and cuddly appeal helps raise funding for such non-government organizations.
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The Koala Plan ... identifies opportunities that developers can undertake to minimise koala – dog interactions. This can include: 'dog-free' or 'small-dog' estates using covenants or community title, or incorporating koala exclusion fencing on part of a lot or premises to separate dogs and koalas.
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