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This animal has fingerprints almost identical to yours — and it is not a primate.

Under a microscope, a koala's fingerprints are so like a human's that even experts struggle to tell them apart — closer to ours than a chimp's.

Each front paw has two thumbs, for a vice-like grip on the branches.

It eats almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves — food so toxic and low in energy that it sleeps up to 20 hours a day just to survive on it.

Its baby is born the size of a jelly bean, lives in a backwards-opening pouch, and its first solid food is its mother's poo — full of the bacteria it needs to digest those leaves.

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