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 …showed first 75 words of 2000 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2000 total…Buckingham, Scott. 4 April 2001. Cute, cuddly and starving. http://more.abcnews. go.com/sections/primetime/2020/primetime_010405_koalas_feature.html Phillips, Ken. 1994. Koalas: Australia’s ancient one’s. Macmillan, New York. Serventy, Vincent. 1992. Koala. Steck-Vaughn, Austin, Texas. Smith, Andrew and Winter, John. 1997. A key and field guide to the Australian possums, gliders, and koalas. Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, New South Wales. Wright, Phillip. 2000. 19 March 2001. All about koalas. http://www.akfkoala gil.com.au/koala.html.