It can be challenging to get a fussy eater to broaden their food choices, especially when they are a koala. Koalas that eat different species of eucalypts have different gut microbes Faecal ...

An adult koala eats a eucalyptus leaf. Joeys can't break down the toxic, fibrous plants on their own yet. Photograph By David Marks/National Geographic When it’s time to feed the kids, koala moms do ...

Australia has just taken a historic step to protect one of its most beloved animals. For the first time in the world, regulators have approved a vaccine to shield koalas from chlamydia, a bacterial ...

Australian scientists have begun vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in an ambitious field trial in New South Wales. The aim is to test a method for protecting the beloved marsupials against a ...

Darcy Watchorn works for Zoos Victoria, a not-for-profit zoo-based conservation organisation. He is a member of the Ecological Society of Australia, the Australian Mammal Society, and the Society for ...