Ssssh, I gotta tell you...
Shhhhhhh! Come closer!
[Looks around to see if anyone is listening, claws grip tightly to branch]

Cutest Koala, originally uploaded by Erik K Veland.
I must... tell you something! Ssssshhhh!
Look into my beady eyes!
![Whoa, this is kinda gettin' heavy [adjusts collar] Koala](http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/2008/09/02/koala.jpg)
You...
you...
complete me!
Ahn, thanks, Lil' KoalaPants!
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couldn't help it.
Isaac
i had no idea until now that koalas had goat pupils. that freaks me out a little, but not enough to keep me from wanting to snorgle the bejeezus out of that one.
cutest picture ever. hands down
KOALA!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goat eyes are horizontal.. this is much less freakish, and much more cat-like.
This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where they travel to Australia, and at the end there's the closeups of the koala clinging to the airplane.
(sobs) Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at "Ssssh."
Meg, YOU may not be ready for that kind of commitment with a koala, but I definitely am!! Send him my way, would you?
i don't think they have goat pupils... i think they are just slits because it's bright outside.
"Hey, fellas! Wait! Come back! I want to hug one of you... and feed you a leaf."
Chubby little round body = cute
Oh good Lo' will you look at the tum tum?!? It's so teenies, and, and, I think his head is bigger 'n the rest of his body, and the ear tufts and and...
GAH!
Scrape me off the ceiling would you, and please don't leave any of me up there. Thanks...
I LOVE koalas!! So cute and looking dumbstruck every time!
We used to have a small koala doll (that you wind up and it played Waltzing Matilda) that we picked up during our first trip Down Under almost 30 years ago. Had a funny musky smell, and I still smell that every time I see koala photos (and yes, Waltzing Matilda proceeds to play in my head in music box fashion).
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG...
*faints*
SNORGLE.
NOW.
If someone was trying to design the cutest animal imaginable? This is what they'd come up with. Little darlingks...
My darling hubby and son took me to Australia for my 50th birthday, so I could live my dream of hugging a koala! Went to Featherdale Wildlife Park and hugged koalas all day long. It was heavenly!!!
http://www.featherdale.com.au/index.htm
Nuthin cuter than a koala bear. Moar koalas on CO, thanks Meggie-pants !
Koalas are the most stuff-animal-looking mammals that I know of.
My first "teddy bear" was actually a koala bear. Have had much love for them since then.
Every time I see a koala I forgot how cute they were! Always a pleasant reminder.
Oh no! A drop bear!
Okay, I actually gasped outloud when I saw that! It cannot be real!!!!
Zomg, just too, too, TOO cute!!! <3
Has all the font just gone really tiny for everyone else too? Or is it just me?
C - The font has gone REALLY tiny (I thought it was me--obviously 'twasn't!).
I want to kiss that precious little schnozzle!
C.-Nope, not just you.
How could you NOT commit to a Koala, for heaven's sake!! I mean...IT'S A KOALA!!!!
i can't believe it! i did a huge pencil drawing of a koala positioned just like this, on a tree with its top cut off, just like that, like 6 years ago! the picture i based it off of was different than this one--it was darker and there were more leaves. but how weird!!
Jan-Is a koala's fur soft? It sort of looks like a brillo pad, especially close-up.
I have to admit that any time I see a koala, all I can think of is the Mitch Hedberg stand up routine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWkhmw_PLTw
If only my apartment could be infested with koalas!
There appear to be other koalas in the background.. sigh .. a clutch of koalas? or what is it??
oh and @chanpon, thanks a lot, now I have "Waltzing Matilda" running around in my brain .. make it STOPPP!
The collective for bears is "sloth" or "sleuth" -- I don't see one for koalas specifically...
http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kennel/collectives.htm
And don't get too much closer, Meg, or we'll end up with a COXCU of the booger in his left nostril.
Well Little Koala you.. YOU.. Complete me too.!!!
Courtesy of wikipedia:
"Although taxonomically incorrect, the name Koala bear is still in use today outside Australia — its use is discouraged because of the inaccuracy in the name."
Wants!! Omg - must snorgle that bebeh!!!
Aw, you complete US, Koala!
Meg, have you been about the CuteTalk Mansion lately? You know we love small text!
...I think I could be ready for that commitment, koalapants.
Oh my god, you guys just made me google "goat pupils." The more you know...
Shhhhhhh...Let me keees...
Oh my god it's so cute! I just want to cuddle and snuggle it and scratch it and kiss it and hug it....I want one!
@Em- same here! I had to know!
OMG! Koala!!
*dive snorgles the belly*
Martha - yep Koalas are soft as. well - all the ones I've met have been. unless the parks use fabric softener when we are not looking.
they were originally hunted for their fur.
I admit - that is the CUTEST koala I have EVER seen
Hunted? Noooooo!! Must snorgle live teddy bear..it's like he can see into my soul. *Hug meeeee. I's very soft and eat all of your bamboo.*
um... am i the only one who thinks the close up of the koala is creepy?
I LOVE HIM.
I can smell the eucalyptus from here!
That koala ownz my SOUL. Sometimes a picture on CO will literally take my breath away with teh qte. This is one of those.
Downunder Sugarglider--Now I have visions of Aussie Park Rangers furiously bathing their koalas in Downy each night. As the water goes down the drain in the wrong direction.
"Yeh Yeh! my big secret
I'm not a Bear, yeh honestly, I spect no one else knows, I'ma Marsupial, see you didn't know that didya, Oh oh yer did!"
These words ain't perfect-- but EVERYBODY SING!
Take me koala back, Jack--
Take me koala back--
Don't leave him there on the tracks,
Jack--
Take me koala back!
Hamster & rye-i sang that song inside my head and i thought of jack as jack hanna
*grabby hands* I can has koala huggies? *grabby hands* *runs off with koala-bebeh*