Koala parents prioritize emotional connection between parent and child, and they might practice baby-wearing and co-sleeping ...

The baby koala will stay close to mom for the next year, at which point it will be big enough to climb trees solo Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

As marsupials, koalas are born roughly the size of a large jelly bean and spend six to seven months developing and nursing inside the mother’s pouch. After that time, the baby will start to ...

“Ruby still sleeps in the basket hugging her teddy bear,” she says. The baby koala is cocooned in a cane picnic basket like an infant in a bassinet. “She was rescued from the jaws of a do ...

A rescued koala joey decided that playing was a better use of her time than receiving her late-night formula feed in southern Australia, footage taken in mid-March shows. This video captured by ...

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Even though I’d never seen these particular koalas alive, I kind of felt like ... The one that really got me was the mother with the baby still in her arms.