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'Eat a Koala' Campaign Promotes Business, Creates Controversy

Want to succeed in business and real estate development? Eat a koala. That's the message promoted by an angry Australian businessman who contends that local government is more interested in protecting cute marsupials than "saving" business. Queensland local Graham Parker has designed and distributed car stickers...

Koala Population Ravaged by Chlamydia

(Sept. 17) -- The world's koala population is being ravaged by an epidemic that would seem at odds with the animal's image as the cuddly emblem of Australia. According to researchers, 50 to 80 percent of the marsupials are infected with a disease commonly associated with human promiscuity: chlamydia. That's right,...

Background on koala

The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae.

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