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