Towering eucalyptus trees ... “Ruby still sleeps in the basket hugging her teddy bear,” she says. The baby koala is cocooned in a cane picnic basket like an infant in a bassinet.

A koala bear lounges in a eucalyptus tree, lazily chewing leaves in a scene as Australian as one can imagine. But then the koala does something unusual: it climbs down the tree to drink water from ...

Then perhaps a pesky possum. The last thing he expected was to walk into work one day and find a "cheeky" koala, dazed and too stuffed to move, surrounded by stripped eucalypt plants. "He looked ...

Editor's note: This is part of a series of videos offering an up-close perspective on the animal kingdom. A special 360-degree video camera system was set up in zoos and other facilities to show ...

Koalas are mainly sedentary, though they do a few tricks in the trees. They also only eat eucalyptus ... But don’t call them bears! “They are actually not Bears; they are marsupials ...

Crates containing koalas being loaded onto truck. Koalas at Dublin Zoo. Eucalyptus leaves being delivered to the koala exhibit. Koalas with their keepers. Interviews with Vickie Kuder, San Diego ...