var arrayFacts = [
"Not Drunk, Digesting...
Contrary to popular myth, koalas do not sleep because they are drunk off of gum leaves.
They spend most of their time sleeping because their diet of eucalyptus leaves requires a lot of energy to digest, and sleeping is one of the best ways to conserve energy.",
"Picky Eaters:
There are over 600 varieties of eucalyptus trees, but the koala is a fussy eater and will only eat from several species.",
"Koala Table Manners:
Koalas communicate with each other by making a range of vocal noises.
Despite their gentle appearance, they can make a startling sound known as a bellow, which sounds like a loud snore, followed by an even louder belch.
Australian school children love to imitate the sounds a koala makes.",
"Cute, But Not So Bright:
The koala, one of Australia’s most popular native animals, has an unusually small brain, which resembles a shriveled walnut. About 40% of the cranial cavity filled with fluid.",
"Permanent Vacation:
Koalas rest for about 20 hours a day, sleeping most of that time cradled within the forked branches of a tree.",
"Drink Your Leaves!
The word Koala is Aboriginal for 'no drink.'
Koalas live on a diet consisting of eucalyptus leaves, which contain enough moisture so that the Koala doesn’t need to drink.",
"Who Needs Perfume?
An average Koala eats up to 2.2 pounds of eucalyptus leaves every day, chewing them to a very fine paste before swallowing.
Koalas derive all the nourishment they need from eucalyptus leaves and eat so many of them that they smell like eucalyptus.",
"Bitty Baby
A baby koala is no bigger than a nickel at birth.",
"Sleeping Beauty:
Australia’s best burrowing marsupial spends two-thirds of its life asleep.
Wombats are nocturnal, and they graze for between 3-8 hours per night, often traveling many miles during this time.",
"Why Rush?
Wombats generally move slowly, but can run up to 24 miles an hour over short distances.",
"Wombat Subway System:
The koala’s closest relative, the wombat, lives in burrows that are often up to 65 feet long.
Wombats have short legs, powerful claws and can dig exceptionally well, excavating 6.5 miles of tunnel per night.
Burrows have numerous connecting tunnels and entrances and may be more than 6.5 feet below ground.",
"World of Wombats:
There are 3 species of wombat; common, northern hairy-nosed, and southern hairy-nosed.
The common wombat is distinguished from its cousins by its naked, hairless nose, smaller ears, more rounded head and longer fur. The common wombat lives in the coldest climates.",
"Bulldozers of the Bush:
The wombat has been compared to an offensive linesman on a football team.
It’s a thick-set, stocky animal with short legs and a shuffling walk. It averages 3.3 feet long, and weighs around 88 pounds.
They are also nicknamed ‘bulldozers of the bush’ for their ability to move anything in their way, including farmers’ fences.",
"Pouch Protector:
The true color of a wombat's coat is often hidden by the color of the dirt or clay in which they’ve been digging or burrowing.
Female wombats have a backward opening pouch to protect their young from being covered in dirt and debris whilst they are burrowing.",
"Body Slam:
Wombats are experts in home security. Weighing around 88 pounds, wombats are a force to be reckoned with.
They have hard plates in their backs and use them to help crush dangerous intruders against the burrow wall.",
"Don't Anger a Wombat:
Whilst they appear slow and clumsy, when required a wombat can easily out-run a human.",
"Wombat Table Manners:
When feeding, the wombat will use its front feet like hands, to pick up vegetation or roots and put them into its mouth.",
"Strange, But True:
Wombats have unusual, cube-shaped dung.
Their movements can easily be tracked by their distinctive dung.",
"Slow and Steady...
Wombats have an extraordinarily slow metabolism; it takes around 14 days for them to digest their food.",
"Wannabies:
There are 11 species of brush wallabies in Australia.
The most common is the red-necked wallaby, also called Bennett’s wallaby, which inhabits the brush lands of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania.
The red-necked wallaby reaches about 3 feet in height and weighs between 30 and 50 pounds.",
"Just the Facts:
A small wallaby, quokkas average 3 feet long and weigh about 7 pounds.
Males are called boomers, females are called fliers and their young, like all kangaroos, are called joeys.
They have a lifespan of about 5 years.",
"Parmas in Peril:
Parma wallabies can be found in rainforests and dry forests with thick undergrowth in Australia. Wallabies, like other kangaroos, are frequently hunted and killed by ranchers.
The Parma wallaby is the most endangered wallaby.",
"Stocky and Strong:
Quokkas (small wallabies) can climb trees up to 5 feet high. Because they have strong hind legs, they can both climb trees and hop well.
Its body is stocky, hunched in posture, and it has short brown coarse hair with a lighter underbelly. ",
"Who Needs Evion?
Quokkas (small wallabies) can cope with temperatures up to 111 degrees Fahrenheit.
They can go months without water, due to their remarkable ability to reuse some of their waste products.
When they do want a drink, they often dig their own water wells, or get water from succulent plants like cacti.",
"Rats Nest Island:
Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh first spotted Quokkas on an island off Perth, Western Australia.
He described them as ‘rats the size of cats,’ and believed that their island was overrun with rats.
Fittingly, he named this picturesque island, Rottnest, Dutch for ‘rats nest.’",
"Salty but Satisfying:
Tammar wallabies have extremely efficient kidney functions.
They are the only known mammal able to survive in dry desert conditions by drinking sea water when fresh water is scarce.
They get their name from the tamma brush thickets where they like to shelter.",
"Captain Kangaroo:
Tammar wallabies were the first kangaroo species to be discovered by European explorers.
The crew of a stranded Dutch ship discovered them in 1629, and commented that they resembled 'hopping cats'.
Kangaroos were officially discovered by Captain Cook 140 years later when he landed in Australia.",
"Stripes are Flattering:
The pretty-faced wallaby is named for the distinctly beautiful white stripes on its cheeks.
It is found on the eastern coast of Australia, and is also called the whip-tail wallaby, gray-faced wallaby or gray or blue flier.",
"No Hare Here:
The rufous hare wallaby’s scientific name means 'dancing hare'. In terms of size, appearance, and habits, they closely resemble these long-eared animals.
They spend a lot of time moving around on all four paws, but when they need to move quickly they stand on their hind legs and hop like other wallaby species.
Their habit of hiding in spinifex (grass) has also given rise to the nickname 'spinifex-rat'.",
"Just the Facts:
The yellow-footed rock wallaby can drink 11% of its body weight in 7 minutes.
They weigh up to 20 pounds. Their head and body are about 20-30 inches long, and their tail is an additional 15-28 inches long.
They have a life-span of 12 to 18 years in the wild.",
"Furry Gymnast:
The yellow-footed rock wallaby can jump vertically 2 ˝ times its own height.
When it jumps from rock to rock, it holds its arms at a right angle to its body when it lands until it can balance and stabilize itself--just like a professional gymnast or tight-rope circus performer!",
"Smarter Than Your Average Wallabie:
There are six species of rock wallabies. They are very agile, and have thick, padded, furry hind feet which give them better grip as they hop over rocks.
Their tails are more slender than other species, which gives them better balance.",
"Organ Grinders:
Nail-Tail Wallabies, found in the northern parts of Australia, tend to be shy and live alone.
When they hop they rotate their front legs as though they’re pedaling, and are nicknamed ‘organ grinder’ wallabies.
Sadly, two of the three species are endangered.",
"Dangerously Beautiful:
Yellow-footed rock wallabies are one of the most colorful of the kangaroo family.
They have a white stripe on each cheek, yellow backed ears, a dark gray streak down the middle of their backs, dark gray patches on their yellow limbs, with yellow and tan striped tails.
They were hunted by early Australian settlers for their fur.",
"Barely Born:
A newborn kangaroo is more helpless than a human baby. When first born, the joey is essentially a fetus – blind and no larger than a fly.
It breaks free of the birth sac, and swims to the mother’s pouch using its sense of smell.
The joey finds and latches onto a nipple and stays physically fused there for 4-5 months.",
"Drawstring Pouch:
A female kangaroo can control the size of their pouch and the size of the opening.
A female can contract her muscles, pulling the pouch tight against her body, just like a drawstring bag.
If she wants to remove the joey from her pouch, she can relax her muscles to loosen the opening so the joey can fall out.",
"Who Needs Public Transportation?
Like a pogo stick or a bouncing ball, the hopping kangaroo is able to keep moving while barely expending any additional energy. In fact, the faster they hop, the less energy it takes them to move!
Kangaroos have powerful calf muscles and numerous tendons in their tail.
It is believed that the combination of these muscles and tendons help give the kangaroo its energy and resilience.",
"Big Foot:
Kangaroos belong to a group of marsupials called 'macropods', which means 'great-footed animals.' All kangaroos have strong back legs and long feet.
The feet of large gray kangaroos can be 18 inches long. Their forepaws are small by comparison and appear hand-like because they have five digits.",
"Who Needs an Air Conditioner?
To keep cool in hot, dry temperatures kangaroos try to rest as much as possible during the day.
They pant like a dog and have a ‘spit bath’ by licking their paws and running them over their fur, just like a cat.
They also dig shallow holes under trees and cover themselves with the cool sand.",
"Say What?
When explorers from Europe first caught sight of the kangaroo, they asked a native Australian to tell them the name of the animal.
He replied, ‘kangaroo,’ which, in his language, meant 'I don’t understand.'
So, from that moment on, these furry mammals have been known as kangaroos.",
"One Talented Mother:
With its unique reproductive system, the kangaroo can support three young at once: one on the ground, one in the pouch, and one in the uterus.
The female can also supply different types of milk to her teats to meet the different needs of her young.
In times of drought, the female kangaroo can shut down her reproductive system.",
"Girl Power!
The kangaroo world is dominated by females. Kangaroos form highly social groups called mobs, troops or courts, and in each group, females outnumber males five to one.
This is because the dominant males push other males out of the mob.",
"Jack and Jill:
Male kangaroos are called bucks, boomers or jacks; females are does, flyers, or jills, while all young are called joeys.",
"Swiss Army Tail:
When a kangaroo hops, its tail balances the weight of its body and prevents it from falling on its face.
When a kangaroo is sitting, their tail acts like a third leg, similar to a tripod effect.",
"Just the Facts:
There are over 60 different species of kangaroos in Australia. There are also 12 related species known as rat kangaroos.
Males are larger than females in all species.
Kangaroos generally live for 20 years in captivity and approximately six years in the wild.",
"Alarm Call!
When they sense danger, kangaroos beat on the ground with their hind feet, making a sound which carries a long distance.",
"Can You Hop In The Water?
Grey kangaroos have been seen escaping predators by entering the water up to their chests.
Kangaroos are capable swimmers, but only venture into water when threatened.",
"Kangaroos For Kids:
The Eastern Grey Kangaroo became a television star in 1968. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was a popular Australian TV series for children produced from 1966-68.
Over the show's 90 episode run, Skippy was played by at least three different kangaroos.
Skippy is still being shown around the world today.",
"Big and Still Bouncing:
The Red Kangaroo is the largest surviving marsupial in the world.
The largest recorded male was 6 ft 6 in tall, and weighed in at 200 lbs.",
"Step into the Ring!
When male kangaroos fight, they stand on their hind limbs and attempt to push their opponent off balance. It looks like they’re 'boxing.'",
"Sticks and Stones...
The Western Grey Kangaroo is also known as the 'stinker' because of the 'curry-like smell' given off by the large males.",
"Unstoppable Hopper:
The largest Australian marsupial can jump 30 feet in one hop!
The adult Red Kangaroo grows over 5.9 feet tall, although at birth they’re the size of a peanut.
They can jump up to 9.8 feet high and hop as fast as 43 miles per hour, although their comfortable hopping speed is around 13-16 miles per hour.",
"Kangabies:
Tree-kangaroos are expert leapers and jumpers. Having evolved from kangaroos and wallabies, they have very long tails, strong forelimbs for climbing, long claws on their feet and an excellent grip.
They can leap 29.5 feet from tree to tree and have jumped from heights of 59 feet or more to the ground.",
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