Koala around and its head has doubled in size. The eyes begin to open and fine fur grows on the forehead, nape, shoulders, and arms. At 26 weeks, the fully furred animal resembles an adult, and begins to poke its head out of the pouch. As the young koala approaches six months, the mother begins to prepare it for its eucalyptus diet by predigesting the leaves, producing a faecal pap that the joey eats from her cloacum. The pap is quite different in composition from regular faeces, resembling instead the contents of the caecum, which has a high concentration of bacteria.
Adventures of the Little Koala block in 1988, as "Noozles". The Japanese animation studio Topcraft, best known for providing animation duties on many of Rankin-Bass' American animated TV specials as well as the feature film "The Last Unicorn", worked on "The Adventures of the Little Koala." Topcraft provided animation assistance for Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 feature film "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"; in fact, some of the animators who worked on "Little Koala" also worked on "Nausicaa". After "Nausicaa", a number of Topcraft animators went on to work for Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. Some notable animators who worked on this series included Katsuhisa Yamada and