Good afternoon. Today we'll have two students, Mark and Philip, to talk about animals. Mark will be the first. Mark, please get straight down to business. Right. As you know, Australia has many unique species of animals due to its long geographical isolation, such as kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, dingoes, possums, platypuses, spiny anteaters and so on. Today I'm going to talk about koalas. The koala is a sluggish, tailless, furry arboreal marsupial. Koalas are different from state to state in colour and build, probably because of differences in climate and diet. In Queensland, for example, koalas typically have a reddish or tawny colour. In New South Wales are greyish with ash-like flecking. In Victoria they tend to be heavily built, with a shaggy coat of a brownish colour.