A close-up of a young koala bear (Phascolarctos cinereus) on a tree eating eucalypt leaves. - Filepic
ASIDE from being insanely cute and surprisingly ill-tempered, Australia's koalas are one of the few animals that possess fingerprints almost indistinguishable from a human's.
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