Koalas Koalas Koalas are a type of animal that eats a strict diet of leaves and vegatation. They eat eucalyptus because it has a kind of milk in the eucalyptus so they don't have to risk going down to the river where there are many predators.
Some people think the koalas' get high or drunk because there is a kind of alcahol in the leaves.
They are nocturnal which means they sleep in the daytime and are active at night. They are arboreal animals. Some people think Koalas are some species of bears. The koala is a marsupial. It is called a marsupial because they have a pouch to carry their young.