Where does the word koala come from?
‘Koala’ is thought to have meant ‘no drink’ in one of the Aboriginal languages. Koalas don’t need to drink very often because they get most of the moisture they need from eucalyptus leaves. However, they can drink from waterholes and creeks etc if necessary, such as in times of drought when the eucalyptus leaves contain less moisture than normal. There were many different languages spoken by Aboriginal people throughout the country, although some of those languages have been lost today, and the name for a koala appears in diverse forms in the written accounts of early settlers (coming from Aboriginal language origins) as cullewine, koolewong, colo, colah, koolah, kaola, koala, karbor, boorabee, and goribun. As you can see some of these words are somewhat similar in sound to ‘koala’. Source: The Koala Book. Ann Sharp. David Bateman Ltd. New Zealand. 1995. More information…
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