Koalas endangered status

The Plight of the Koala The species Phascolarctos cinereus, more commonly known as the koala, is a very unique and unusual animal. Although it is commonly thought of as a bear, the koala is actually a marsupial, one of the three groups of mammals, and is more closely related to the bandicoot and the American opossum than any species of bear (Smith and Harman, 1997). The koala is almost exclusively known to most people as the …

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