An adult koala eats a eucalyptus leaf. Joeys can't break down the toxic, fibrous plants on their own yet. Photograph By David Marks/National Geographic When it’s time to feed the kids, koala moms do ...

The koala doesn’t have to worry about what to eat: If it looks and smells and tastes like a eucalyptus leaf, it’s dinner. The koala’s culinary preferences are hardwired in its genes. - Michael Pollan, ...

Koalas are herbivores (specifically browsing folivores) and feed almost exclusively on the leaves of the eucalyptus plant (gum trees). Sometimes, they will also eat the soft stems, flowers, and ...

Baby koala learns to eat eucalyptus like a pro.

Powerful technology that efficiently detects and accurately predicts eucalyptus tree species favored by koalas could help ...

The koala challenges the kangaroo as the most iconic Australian marsupial. It is a very peculiar animal, spectacularly specialized, living in eucalyptus trees and surviving almost entirely on their ...

Antibiotics used to treat koalas with chlamydia infections may be changing the balance of gut microbes that allows the marsupials to live on a diet of eucalyptus leaves, researchers have found. Koalas ...

The koala is an unusual creature. Native to Australia and a bit bigger than a raccoon, it spends most of its time in eucalyptus trees, gorging on leaves that are toxic to nearly every other animal on ...

You are what you eat. Chowing down on a giant bowl of garlic cloves will make you smell like garlic. The same goes for onions. For younger koalas, however, their odor is usually a little more pleasant ...

Before we get to the science, let's all just admit we want a koala. So cute! The koala challenges the kangaroo as the most iconic Australian marsupial. It is a very peculiar animal, spectacularly ...