Brumby and Willum, the two koalas, arrived at the zoo June 10, spending their first week acclimating before greeting the public, said Mark Wanner, associate vice president of animal care and ...

“The L.A. Zoo has a long history with koalas, and a new generation of Angelenos will have the unique opportunity to see this joey grow up,” said Beth Schaefer, director of animal programs at ...

Koalas have the most expensive diet at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia. They have diet of eucalyptus leaves, which are shipped in ...

Among those animals are also some of the zoo’s newest babies: twin sloth bear cubs and two koala joeys. “I see guests with a lot more patience when they’re at the habitat,” Thomas said of ...

The Columbia zoo is one of only 11 in the United States with koalas. The endangered animals are native to Australia, and South Carolina's climate is warm enough that the animals can also be kept ...

The leaves are poisonous to most other animals, but koalas have specialized gut bacteria to extract water and nutrients from eucalyptus, zoo officials explain. That digestive period is when koalas ...

Some animals require a bit more oversight, however, including the two male koalas named Brumby and Willum at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The fuzzy animals, which are native to Australia and made their ...