In this post I am focusing specifically on the arboreal animal, the koala. My research question will be: How do koalas adapt to their environment? Why is this important? I used National Geographic as my source. This source is reliable because we use it in schools to get reliable information about Earth’s geography and its features.
Koalas live mainly in Eastern Australia because the tree they primarily feed on is most plentiful there. Koalas briefly leave the eucalyptus trees on occasion, but they spend most of their time in these trees. Koalas also barely drink any water, they get all their moisture that they need in the leaves the eat. Most koalas eat around 2 ½ pounds of leaves a day and store more leaves in their cheeks as well. They sleep up to 18 hours. This eating and sleeping patterns is an example of how koalas adapt because since they live in the trees, that decides what they have to eat. They also have to have different digestive systems than other animals that can handle to extreme amounts of food they eat per day. Koalas adapt to their environment around them by having smaller bodies, which allow them to get higher in trees, faster, and also balance better. With smaller bodies, they are able to get into smaller places and around branches in trees more easily. By having a different digestive system than other animals, which allows them to eat large masses of leaves, they are able to live their lives in trees, eating whatever is around them. If they didn’t have these digestive systems, they would not be able to be arboreal animals.
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In my next blog post,I plan on studying more in depth about koalas. Koalas are one of the major kind of arboreal animals, so if I am able to understand more about their adaption to the environment, I will be able to get a much larger idea on how other arboreal animals adapt as well.
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