Koalas' Urination during Summer and Winter Seasons

During the winter season the urination within Koalas is normal and they tend to urinate much more as compared to the summer seasons. During the winter seasons, the Koalas urinate about 5 to 6 times a day. Even some Koalas were reported to urinate more as well. However, this urination process reduces during the summer seasons. It is specifically found that during the summer seasons Koalas could only urinate only once a day. A the very maximum during the summer seasons, it was specifically observed that, they urinated twice a day and not more than it.

Koalas do not take or drink water at all. It is very rare to seek Koalas drinking water near the ponds and rivers. Their food which is eucalyptus leaves carry enough water for them, that the Koalas do not even have to seek the water. However, during the summer seasons the conditions become highly different. Since Australia is also the driest continent on the earth, therefore, heat presence is also very high during the summers. Koalas have to conserve water in their bodies as well or they will have to eat more to have water levels normal in their bodies. But why Koalas urinate less during the summers?

Koalas Urinate less during the summers is because of their dark fur and extremely hot summer weather during the summers. A major quantity of evaporate through the transpiration or perspiration through Koalas skin. As a result of that fewer water is left in their bodies out of which they maintain their body temperatures and as a result only less amount of liquid is left to be excreted. However, during the winter, the koalas urinate normally and within greater quantities.