Baby Koala

My name is Kenny and I’m a koala. I’m native to Australia, which means that I’m originally from there. I eat, sleep, and live in the eucalyptus forests of Australia. I eat only the leaves of the eucalyptus trees. I can eat up to five hundred grams of leaves a night . At night, you ask? Yes, at night. I like to eat during the night and sleepduring the day. I’m nocturnal.

我叫肯尼，我是一只考拉。我是原产于澳大利亚，这意味着我最初来自澳大利亚。 我在澳大利亚的桉树林里吃饭、睡觉和生活。 我只吃桉树的叶子。 我一晚上最多可以吃五百克树叶。 晚上，你问？是的，在晚上。我喜欢晚上吃饭，白天睡觉。我是夜行性的。

I don’t drink a lot of water. That’s because I get all the water I need from the leaves. In some of the native Australian languages, koala means “ no drink. ” That’s how we got our name. I sleep in the branches of the eucalyptus tree. After I eat, I pick out a nice big branch and sleep.

我不喝很多水。那是因为我从树叶中得到了我所需要的所有水。 在一些澳大利亚土著语言中，考拉的意思是“不喝酒” 这就是我们的名字。 我睡在桉树的树枝上。吃完饭，我拿起一根漂亮的大树枝睡觉。

I usually sleep twenty hours a day. I sleep a lot, don’t I? The rest of the time, I eat and move around. I like to live up in the branches of the eucalyptus trees. I have two thumbs on each paw, and long, sharp claws that make it easy for me to climb up and down the tree trunks. I can also leap from branch to branch.

我通常一天睡二十个小时。我睡得很多，不是吗？ 剩下的时间，我吃饭，四处走动。 我喜欢住在桉树的树枝上。 我的每只爪子上都有两个拇指，长长的利爪使我很容易爬上爬下树干。 我也可以在树枝间跳跃。

When I run out of leaves to eat, I climb down and run to another tree. I don’t like to stay on the ground too long because of cars and dangerous predators like the dingo, an Australian wild dog. I’m a type of animal called a marsupial. Other marsupials are the kangaroo, the Tasmanian devil, and the wombat.

当我吃不完树叶时，我爬下来跑向另一棵树。 我不喜欢在地上呆太久，因为有汽车和危险的捕食者，比如澳大利亚野狗野狗。 我是一种叫做有袋动物的动物。其他有袋动物还有袋鼠、塔斯马尼亚魔鬼和袋熊。

Marsupials are different from other mammals because, unlike most mammals, the baby is underdeveloped when it’s born. It needs to finish developing in its mother’s pouch. You see, when a baby koala is born, it is very, very small -almost the size of a pink jelly bean. Although the baby is blind and deaf, it crawls its way into the mommy’s pouch .

有袋动物与其他哺乳动物不同，因为与大多数哺乳动物不同，婴儿出生时发育不全。 它需要在妈妈的育儿袋里完成发育。 你看，当一只考拉宝宝出生时，它非常非常小，几乎只有一个粉红色的果冻豆大小。 虽然婴儿是盲人和聋子，但它还是爬进了妈妈的育儿袋。

The baby attaches itself to the mother’s nipple to get food to grow big and healthy. A baby marsupial is called a joey. So, baby kangaroos are also called joeys. First, the joey develops eyes, ears, and fur. At about five months, the joey’s eyes open and it’s able to peer out of the pouch. When it is six months old, the joey gets too big for the pouch and can’t fit inside .

婴儿依附在母亲的乳头上，以获取食物，使其长得又大又健康。 有袋动物宝宝被称为小袋鼠。因此，袋鼠宝宝也被称为小袋鼠。 首先，小狗长出眼睛、耳朵和皮毛。大约五个月的时候，小狗的眼睛睁开了，它可以从袋子里看出来。 当它六个月大的时候，小袋鼠变得太大了，不能放在袋子里。