Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Fictional wombats, Koalas, Prehistoric vombatiforms, Diprotodon, Sam, The Magic Pudding, Australian Koala Foundation, Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Common Wombat, Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat, Koala retrovirus, Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat, The Muddle-Headed Wombat, Vombatiformes, Zygomaturus, Giant Koala, Koala emblems and popular culture, Phascolarctidae, Litokoala, Phascolonus, Ilariidae, Hulitherium, Lasiorhinus, Diprotodontidae, Neohelos, Nototherium, Riversleigh Rainforest Koala, Silvabestius, Phascolarctos, Zygomaturinae, Alkwertatherium, Euryzygoma, Warendja, Kolopsis, Bematherium, Raemeotherium, Plaisiodon, Kolopsoides, Maokopia, Meniscolophus, Ramasayia. Excerpt: The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. The koala is found in coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia, from Adelaide to the southern part of Cape York Peninsula. Populations also extend for considerable distances inland in regions with enough moisture to support suitable woodlands. The koalas of South Australia were largely exterminated during the early part of the 20th century, but the state has since been repopulated with Victorian stock. The koala is not found in Tasmania or Western Australia. The word koala comes from the Dharuk gula. Although the vowel was originally written in the Latin alphabet as "oo" (in spellings such as coola or koolah), it was changed to "oa" possibly due to an error. The word is erroneously said to mean "doesn't drink." The scientific name of the koala's genus, Phascolarctos, is derived from Greek phaskolos "pouch" and arktos "bear." Its species name, cinereus, is Latin and means "ash-coloured." Although the koala is not a bear, English-speaking settlers from the late 18th century first called i...