WHAT IS THE AUSTRALIAN TEDDY BEAR?
Practically everyone has owned a teddy bear as a child, but not everyone realizes that the animal it is modeled on is not a bear at all. Bears are placental mammals whereas the Koala, which is often called the Australian teddy bear, is another marsupial number of marsupials restricted to the Australian region look mammal grouped with the phalanger family. It is interesting that and acts like placental mammals found on other continents. The gliding phalanger is very much like the flying squirrel for example.
Why is this?
About fifty million years ago Australia became cut off from the other continents as the mammals evolved. This allowed the marsupials to adapt themselves to live in every kind of habitat, free from competition from the more advanced placental mammals.
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