Stock Photo - Koala (Phascolarctos cenereus) _ Eating eucalpytus leaves _ Australia _ Range is from southestern Queensland through eastern New South Wales and Victoria to southeastern South Australia _ Confined to eucalyptus forests as eucalyptus leaves form the main diet _ Is largely nocturnal and completely arboreal_only occasionally coming to the ground to shuffle slowly to another food tree or to lick up soil or gravel which serves as a digestive aid _ Numbered in the millions until a drastic decline in numbers started in the early 1900s due to clearing of woodland habitat and demand for its fur _ Only a few thousand left in the late 1920s _ Now legally protected