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Cork, S. J. and I. D. Hume. 1983. Microbial digestion in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, Marsupialia), an arboreal folivore. Journal of Comparative Physiology - B 152: 131-135.
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Snipes, R. L., and Snipes, H., and F.N. Carrick. 1993. Surface Enlargement in the Large Intestine of the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus): Morphometric Parameters. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 393-397.
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