Behaviour of the Koala, Phascolarctos Cinereus Goldfuss, in Captivity. 2. Parental and Infantile Behaviour.

Abstract

2. Young koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) began to eat leaves after they left the pouch but before they left the mother's back. The oldest seen sucking was about 13 months old and small for its age. Young koalas still in or returning to the pouch, one of them 240 days old, were seen to eat faeces directly from the mother; adults did not practise coprophagy.