Instead it is using it's long claws to rake through it's fur in a form of preening, to fluff out the fur. Koala's are very good climbers and swimmers. They are very agile in the trees but are clumsy slow movers on the ground. If threatened they move in a leaping sort of run. In wild life reserves and parks more koalas are killed by motor cars then by natural predators.
Females mate in the warmer summer months, mating take place at night in the trees.
The baby remains in the pouch for about 6 months. The female koala have strong maternal instincts and for the first 12 months of the babys life they are rarely apart. The evidence of this loving bond is one of the reasons why the koala is so appealing to us. Then there is Winnie the Pooh and Yogi Bear two of our favorite cartoon bears. With Pooh and gangs silly adventures in the hundred acre woods.