Take a cue from today"s image; this sleepy koala may inspire you to catch some Z"s. These adorable Australian marsupials can sleep up to 20 hours a day, which helps them conserve the little energy they get from their eucalyptus-based diet. Koalas have specialised digestive systems adapted to detoxify the chemicals present in eucalyptus leaves, which are toxic to many other animals. Koalas move slowly when awake, spend most of their time tucked into nooks in trees and have a lower body temperature than other animals of their size.
Koala sleeping in a eucalyptus tree, Australia
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Happy Welsh New Year!
-
Arches National Park, Utah, United States
-
Village of Santa Maddalena, Dolomites, Italy
-
Plum-headed parakeet
-
World Meteorological Day
-
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
-
Books are mans best friend
-
1953 Mount Everest Expedition
-
Coral Reef Awareness Week
-
International Tea Day
-
Martimoaapa Mire Reserve, Finland
-
Black-naped monarch
-
Naxos, Cyclades, Greece
-
Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, USA-Canada border
-
Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon, USA
-
Dunquin Pier, County Kerry, Ireland
-
How’s the air up there?
-
Everglades National Park, Florida
-
Turtle-y nice day for a swim
-
Colourful house in Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil
-
Porto Flavia, Sulcis-Iglesiente, Sardinia, Italy
-
Happy Valentines Day!
-
Walruses in Svalbard, Norway
-
World Whale Day
-
Knuthöjdsmossen nature reserve, Sweden
-
Ocracoke Lighthouse on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, USA
-
Gdańsk on the banks of the Motława river, Poland
-
Carl Sagan Day
-
Oktoberfest begins!
-
Quiver trees, Keetmanshoop, Namibia
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

