Science Facts Thursday: All About Koalas

Cor blimey, didgeryi-doo, here's some science facts for you.
This week it's koalas!

Koalas mostly live in Eastern Australia, where its lovely and sunny and warm. They spend the majority of their time up in trees. They have sharp claws that help them climb up tall trees. Their closest relative is the Wombat.
Droughts and bush fires are the Koalas biggest threats. Dingos and Pythons will om nom nom them if given the chance.

Koalas are vegan, eating mostly Eucalyptus leaves. Due to the limited nutritional value and calorie content of Eucalyptus leaves, Koalas can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.

To attract a female, the male koala lets out a loud bellowing sound. This also intimidates rivals.

Koalas have similar finger prints to humans!

Koalas are marsupial animals, like kangaroos, which means they have a pouch on their belly in which they carry their young, usually for around 6 months or until they have grown strong enough to cling onto their mothers back.

A baby Koala is called a Joey.

They are super cute, but be careful if you ever see one in the wild, they are still a wild animal and my bite or scratch you.

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Science Facts Thursday: Sloths

We're bringing science facts back, on a Thursday!
We missed doing these regular fun facts.

These week we bring you:

There are two main species of sloth, the three toed and the two toed.

Three toed, like our pal Sloth, look as though they are always smiling, due to their dark markings in their facial colouring. They also have two extra vertebrae in their neck, so can turn their heads almost all the way around! This is handy when keeping an eye out for predators, and people stealing tasty leaves.

The two toed variety spend alot of their time upside down, and are slightly larger than the three toed.

Sloths live in the tropical rainforests of South America.
The Pigmy three toed sloth is currently critically endangered :(

Sloths are vegan. Nomming on mostly leaves, fruit and twigs. Most of their energy is spent climbing down trees once a week for a poop. Their diet means they have a slow metabolism, so they don't need to go to the loo very often, which is handy as they would be pretty defenceless against large predators. 

Due to their lazyness of not washing often, or even moving, algae grows in the fur of sloths which can turn their fur a greenish colour, which is handy for camouflaging amongst the leaves.

So now you know all about sloths and Sloth.

Don't forget to pop back next Thursday for more science facts.
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Science Facts Thursday: Moon Facts Part One

It's Science facts Thurday!

Moon Facts: Part One

As the Moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun's rays are blocked at different times, giving the impression the Moon is changing shape. These are called phases.

It takes the Moon to orbit the Earth approximately one month. The diagram below shows the different phases.

Phases of the Moon.

 Contrary to popular belief, and Wallace and Gromit, the Moon actually isn't made of cheese (I know, crazy right?!). Which is a shame because vegans could enjoy the tasty deliciousness of a melted cheese slice on top of a tasty meat free burger. I have never tried cheeseless cheese.
The Moon is actually made of rock stuff .

Moon Burger. Nom nom.

 Back in the old days, when the internet didn't exist, unless somewhere in the future someone mastered time travel and took an iPhone back and said 'How do you like these apples', NASA made several attempts to reach the moon, it wasn't until 1969 were chums Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin hopped aboard Apollo 11 and successfully made it to the Moon. They spent two hours there exploring and having a picnic. Since then, 12 Apollo astronauts have visited the Moon.

Me and Sloth having a picnic on the Moon with some of our favourite essentials.  Sloth's cups of tea unfortunately 'floated' away.

So there you have it, your first dose of Moon facts, stay tuned for more interesting Science facts next Thursday!