Day 323: How much can a Koala bare?

  So how can you not have an awesome day when you spend the morning hanging out with Koala’s?  This mummy was just plum tuckered out, and having a rest in the maternity ward at the Tropical Zoo.  A few of these little guys looked like they had chomped just a few too many gum leaves today too, just quietly.  A lot of little eyes were looking a tad glassy.  Did you know; our cuddle little fellows actually got their name from an ancient Aboriginal word meaning “no drink” because they get 90% of their quality hydration from gum leaves.  Fussy fellows too, with over 600 types of eucalypts in Australia, the Koala’s only like 40-50 varieties, with a top ten preferred.  They are not bears either, they are marsupials.  With their young born immature and then they develop in the safety of the pouch.  As much as I thought they had a few too many gum leaves it appears to be a myth.  They just sleep a lot to digest the gum leaves, go figure.   Koalas are pretty cool, and after observing our other national treasures today, kangaroo, crocodile, wombat, they all seem to be having a pretty dawdling day of sleeping and just chilling out.  I wonder if this is where us Aussie’s originally got the laid back attitude from.