Koala Facts
•Females Koalas generally start breeding at about three or four years of age and usually produce only one baby koala each year.
•Gestation lasts 35 days, after which one koala is born. The baby koala, "joey", is blind, hairless, less than one inch long and weighs less than 1 gram. It crawls into its mothers pouch and attaches itself to one of the two teats and stays there drinking milk for the next six months.
• One female may produce only 5 or 6 baby koalas over her lifetime. If a female does not reproduce each year, the young koala stays with her longer.