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 ...

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 ...