Phascolarctos cinereus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,911 meters (0 to 9,551 feet).[1]

Ecology: Koalas occupy forests and woodlands where there are acceptable food trees . They are largely nocturnal and feed almost exclusively on eucalypts, but preferred food tree species vary with locality and there are quite distinct regional preferences (Martin et al. 2008). They are able to persist in fragmented habitats , and even survive in isolated trees across a predominantly agricultural landscape. Females reach sexual maturity at two years of age and usually give birth to a single young per year. Individual Koalas have been known to live up to 18 years in the wild, but most live between 10 and 14 years (Martin et al. 2008).[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Phascolarctos

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. cinereus (Koala Bear) · P. cinereus adustus (Queensland Koala) · P. cinereus cinereus (Koala Bear)

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Gordon, G., Menkhorst, P., Robinson, T., Lunney, D., Martin, R. & Ellis, M. 2008. Phascolarctos cinereus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Field Museum, Mammal specimens
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center, Mammal Collection
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Mammal specimens
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Mammal Specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 107525
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-552677
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13821120
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 552677
• IUCN ID: 231720
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: A0HG
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5249

Footnotes

1. Mean = 28.780 meters (94.423 feet), Standard Deviation = 45.630 based on 130,233 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Gordon, G., Menkhorst, P., Robinson, T., Lunney, D., Martin, R. & Ellis, M. 2008. Phascolarctos cinereus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]

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