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An adult koala is a leaf - eater. It eats eucalyptus leaves. When koalas are not sleeping, they are usually eating or looking for food. They do not have to look far, since their diet is made up almost entirely of eucalyptus leaves. Over 600 types of eucalyptus trees grow in Australia, but a koala will eat the leaves of only two or three kinds. It occasionally eats leaves from other trees as well, such as tea and cherry trees. Not all koalas like the same kinds of leaves. A koalaâs taste depends partly on where it lives.
They do have home territories, but they will not stay in one particular tree. The koala is an arboreal animal. Arboreal means âliving in treesâ. Koalas live, eat, and sleep in the top branches of eucalyptus trees, also known as gum trees. Males koalas have a special area on their chest that leaves a scent. They rub their chests on their âhome treesâ to leave their scent and mark the trees as their own.