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Koalas are marsupials that live in eucalyptus trees in southeastern and eastern Australia. [1] A newborn koala is tiny and blind, climbing into its mother's pouch to develop. [2] Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves, which provide little energy due to their toxicity, so koalas sleep up to 22 hours per day. [3] Koala populations declined due to hunting and now face threats from habitat loss, fires, and diseases.

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Text 1 Koala

Koalas are marsupials that live in eucalyptus trees in southeastern and eastern Australia. [1] A newborn koala is tiny and blind, climbing into its mother's pouch to develop. [2] Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves, which provide little energy due to their toxicity, so koalas sleep up to 22 hours per day. [3] Koala populations declined due to hunting and now face threats from habitat loss, fires, and diseases.

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Text 1

KOALA

Koalas are marsupials, related to kangaroos. Most marsupials have pouches where the tiny newborns
develop. A koala mother usually gives birth to one joey at a time. A newborn koala is only the size of a
jelly bean. Called a joey, the baby is blind, naked, and earless. As soon as it's born, this tiny creature
makes its way from the birth canal to its mother's pouch. Using the two well-developed senses it's born
with—smell and touch—along with its strong front legs and claws and an instinct that tells it which
direction to head, the baby koala reaches the pouch. There it stays, safely tucked away, growing and
developing for about seven months. After a baby has been in the pouch for about six months, its mother
begins to produce a special substance called pap. The joey feeds on this in addition to the milk it's
already getting. Pap comes from the mother's intestines and contains bacteria that the joey needs to
have in its own intestines so that it can digest an adult diet of eucalyptus leaves.

At about seven months, the joey leaves the pouch to eat leaves, but returns to it to nurse. By the time
the joey is about one year old, it stops nursing and eats just leaves.

Koala life span in the wild is 20 years. It can grow up to 23.5 to 33.5 inches and weight 20 pounds.

1. After reading text 1, which of these statements are true and which one is false. Use “V”
symbol to answer it in the box.

STATEMENTS TRUE FALSE

Koala are bears. V

Koala can walk, climb trees and V


run.
They have long arms and long V
legs.
Koala have small ears and big V
eyes.
Koala sleep for about twelve V
hours a day.

2. Find 5 Adjectives in the sentences and writes opposites of them!

 Koala sleep for about eighteen hours a day.


Giraffes can stay awake for months.
 Koala have short arms.
giraffes have long necks.
 Koala have small ears.
Elephants have big ears.
 Koalas are marsupials.
Bears are mammals.
 Koala can walk, climb trees and run.
Fish can swim and live in water.

Text 2

KOALA

The koala is an iconic Australian animal. Often called the koala “bear,” this tree-climbing animal is a
marsupial—a mammal with a pouch for the development of offspring.

Though koalas look fuzzy, their hair is more like the coarse wool of a sheep. They have two opposing
thumbs on their hands, and both their feet and hands have rough pads and claws to grab onto branches.
They have two toes, fused together, on their feet, which they use to comb their fur.

Koalas live in the eucalyptus forests of southeastern and eastern Australia. When not sleeping, they’re
usually eating. They rely on the eucalyptus tree for both habitat and food. Koalas can eat more than a
pound of eucalyptus leaves a day. Eucalyptus is toxic, so the koala’s digestive system has to work hard to
digest it, breaking down the toxins and extracting limited nutrients.

That’s why koalas sleep so much—they get very little energy from their diet. Tucked into forks or nooks
in the trees, koalas may sleep for 18 to 22 hours.

Koalas usually don’t drink much water as they get most of their moisture from these leaves. Koalas can
even store leaves in their cheek pouches for later. They eat so much eucalyptus that they often take on
its smell.

Koala numbers plummeted in the late 19th and early 20th century from hunting for their fur. Now they
face serious threats from habitat loss. Land clearing, logging, and bushfires—especially the devastating
2019-2020 season—have destroyed much of the forest they live in. Koalas need a lot of space—about a
hundred trees per animal—a pressing problem as Australia's woodlands continue to shrink.

Koalas are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which has
named the species one of 10 animals most vulnerable to climate change. Increasing carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere is decreasing the nutritional quality of eucalyptus leaves (which is already quite low)
and causing longer, more intense droughts and wildfires. In response to drought, koalas are forced to
stop napping and come down from the trees to find water, spending precious energy and putting them
at a higher risk of predation. Predators include dingoes and large owls. They’re also at risk of getting hit
by cars and attacked by dogs. Chlamydia is widespread in some koala populations and can cause
blindness, infertility, and sometimes death.
Answer the questions given!

1. what does the words in the box closest in meaning?

Words Closest meaning


Iconic Idol
Extracting Remove
Plummeted Falling
Vulnerable Endangered
Napping Snooze

2. What causes can endangered the existence of Koala? mention 5 reason!


1. Forest fires in Australia
2. Populations that have difficulty reproducing
3. Climate change
4. Poaching
5. Deforestation
3. What should we do to prevent their extinction? mention 2 solution that you know!
1. Prevent forest fires or global warming
2. Breeding so that koalas can live longer
4. Why Koala’s habitat is in southeastern and eastern Australia? can they live in Indonesia?
The original habitat of koalas is in southern Australia because the weather and climate there
supports koalas to live and some koala food can only be found there so koalas cannot live in
Indonesia.
5. What is Chlamydia?
Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), affects humans as well as koalas; the bacterium
Chlamydia trachomatis targets humans, while koalas are sickened by Chlamydia pecorum.

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