Get a glimpse into the world of baby koalas.
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00:00Bueno, en anticipación de Coalapalooza de 15-18, el público se puede llamar a Coala Joey por ir a la página web de www.sandegazoo.org.
00:15Vamos a llamar our little Joey, whose mom es Orana, y our Joey es 8 months old.
00:22And she's a really, really interesting girl. Her mom has had many, many Joys, and she's a great mom.
00:30She's actually one of our best moms. And this Joey has really started coming out of the pouch pretty early.
00:36She seemed very curious about us. Oftentimes when they come out of the pouch, they're kind of scared of us.
00:42They'll go back in the pouch. But when we started seeing her come out, she just looked at us, and she was very curious.
00:47She also was very brown in color. More brown than we see. Typically they do come out in their gray, just like the adults.
00:54But this one seemed to be very brown, which was interesting. And right now she's trying to eat leaves.
01:00She hasn't eaten a lot of leaves yet, but she's really, really trying hard.
01:05We did have Coalapalooza last year, and it was so popular that we decided to bring it back this year.
01:10And there's many, many fun activities, like there's scavenger hunts, face painting, Australian food specials, Australian music.
01:19It's just a really good time.
01:22Behind me is a female koala that actually has a Joey with her.
01:27And the Joey is about 8 months old right now, and so it rides on mom's back or on the stomach.
01:33And we've just recently started seeing it sit next to mom.
01:35Oh, I know, I know. It's so horrible.
01:48It is still really young, so it still is nervous when we have to weigh it and take it away from mom for a couple of seconds.
01:56But then we put the Joey right back with mom.
01:58So she gives one a little squeak, and then she's pretty quiet.
02:01So she seems to be a pretty quiet and calm koala, but we're still waiting to see what her real personality is going to be.
02:13So the mom's name is Orana, and you can see Orana and her Joey every day.
02:19They do live outside in the koala area at the San Diego Zoo.
02:22We're having a big event called Koala Palooza, which is going to help showcase our koalas and also what's going on with koalas in other areas, especially in Australia.
02:33And there's going to be a naming event, so you can put in your name, request for a name of what you think the koala Joey should be named.
02:39We're out front of our temporary koala exhibit, and we are going to be naming our newest female Joey.
03:00The koala keepers selected a few aboriginal names that they thought would be appropriate for our little girl here on exhibit.
03:06We submitted those and put them online for our visitors to vote on.
03:09After a couple of weeks of voting, over 4,000 people submitted their suggestions.
03:14Forty percent of the vote went to Kira, which is an aboriginal word that means leaf.
03:19Kira was one of the selected names by our keeper staff because she's quite an independent little girl and started eating eucalyptus at such an early age,
03:28so we thought that leaf might actually be an appropriate name for her.
03:32Visitors are going to see here at the temporary koala exhibit, they're going to see three adult koalas and one juvenile, Kira.
03:39And this is a family group.
03:40We've got a grandmother, a mother, a sister, and an aunt.
03:44So it kind of is four generations here.
03:47So in the new Australian outback, all of the koalas will be housed outside.
03:51It will be giving a great experience and opportunity for our visitors to see the koalas close up and in a more naturalistic habitat.
03:58We'll see you next time.
03:58We'll see you next time.