P3 IPW Done by, Chong Jun Yi and Goh Shi Qi

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P3 IPWDone by, Chong Jun Yi and Goh Shi Qi
Animal-They care too!
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Objectives

• To learn more about what is koalas.
• To learn how to present koalas on Max Show.

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In this project,Shi Qi and Jun Yi will make use
of the following topics to touch on koalas

• What is a koala?
• What is koala's habitat?
• What is koalas diet?
• What is koalas physiology?
• How do koala breed?
• How do the young survive?
• How do koalas communicate?
• More information about koalas.

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What is a koala?

• Koala are marsupials ,which means their youngs
  are born from a pouch.
• Adult koalas is 9 kg while a Joey, their baby is
  about 1 gram.
• Female are 2 years of age while male at their 3-4
  years old.

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Koalas habitat

• Koalas live in socialites, so that they could
  contact with the other koala.
• They need suitable eucalypt forest to support a
  healthy and expansion by maturing young
  koalas.
• Members of koala maintain their own home range
  area.

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Koalas Diet.

• Koala need a lot of energy to digest their toxic
  ,fiborous,low nutrition diet and sleeping 18-20
  hours a day is the best way to conserve their
  energy.
• Joey must feed on" pap" because it contain
  micro-organisms from her intestine to be able to
  digest the gum leaf.
• Koala's diet is tree gum leaf and eucalypts leaf.

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How do koalas care for their young.

• Young koalas suck its mothers milk immediately
  when it is born.
• When young koalas can eat eucalypt leaf ,it will
  ride its mothers back to eat leaves.

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How do koalas breed?

• Koalas breeds from August to Febuary.
• Females starts breeding at about three or four
  years of age.
• They usually produce only one offspring each
  year.

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How do the young survive?

• At 22 weeks, its eyes would open and it will peep
  out of the pouch, It would start to feed on pap
  which is waste substance of the mother.
• Young koalas remain in the in the pouch until the
  next Joey is born.
• When young koalas are 12 months old, they have
  to leave the mothers pouch.

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How koalas communicate

• Mother and baby communicate by making soft
  clicking,sqeaking sound, gentle humming or
  murmuring sound to signal displeasure or
  annoyance.
• Male koalas bellow more frequently when it is
  during August-Febuary when it is their breeding
  season.

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More information about koalas

• Male koalas are larger than female and southern
  koalas, southern koalas are 30 larger than
  northern koalas .
• Koala's scientific name is phascolarctos
  cinereus,meaning, ash grey pouched bear.

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Mathematic slide.

• Adult koalas are 9kg.
• Baby koalas are 1gram when they are 1 gram.
• 9000g-1g8999g

• 9kg

• 1g

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Conclusion

• We had learn a lot about koalas
• What have you learnt?
• We feel that humans should not destroy the forest
  to ensure that Koalas will not extinct.

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Reference

• Http//www.the koala .com
• Http//www.save the koala.com/koalaslife.html

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The endHope you like our presentation!, Thank
you!