The Call Of The Koala

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 07:31 in Biology & Nature

Koalas have a reputation of being lazy animals (see figure 1). Of course, sleeping about 19 hours a day, and spending 3 out of the 5 remaining hours eating, only adds to their ‘street rep’. But even these lazy marsupials have to mate. And that’s when it gets interesting (at least to some biologists).    Figure 1: Sleeping koala. Awww...(Source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Dingy)    read more

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