Koalas

The Koala people can be generally compared to a blend of Yuin aboriginal society and members of the Phascolarctidae biological family.
Koalas are one of the fifty-five races of anthropomorphic mammals that populate Yanìs, and are grouped in the subgenus of Australs together with Kangaroos and Platypuses.

Physically, they're quite small in stature and have a sturdy build, barely reaching 4 feet tall and weighing around 40 kg. They have large, rounded, hairy ears, a large head, lively eyes, a broad muzzle, and a flat, naked nose. They have a grayish-colored fur with small white tufts on their chest. The coat is long, soft, and woolly and, due to their diet, smells like eucalyptus. Their bodies are stocky and devoid of a tail. Their feet and hands have five prehensile toes with sharp claws. Females give birth to only one cub, or two in exceptional cases, since there are only two nipples in their pouch.

The Koala people, similarly to Kangaroo people, are divided into various groups, separated by lands, dialects, and rituals. Their tribes live under very strict laws and regulations for the control and betterment of society and lands. Land can't be traded or given away when one moves from one tribe to another, such as a female being given in marriage. Land is a heritable possession not necessarily for notables' one in the tribe but for the whole tribe and its lore. Although a female retains where she came from, she has to adopt a new tribe when she marries, with all its lore and laws, and all her cubs will belong to the new tribe.

An important aspect of every single Koala's life is its relationship with its totem: the Moojingarl, means and involves reciprocity with a totem and the places where it can be found. Marriage is exogamous between family groups, as determined by the spiritual connections of those families. Koalas, in fact, typically don't marry people with connections to the same totem. However, family spiritual connections are inherited, and there are many Koala families associated with certain totems. These ceremonial connections are earned by Koalas who attain a certain ritual status and are associated with specialized powers that clever people have. The Koala people are closely tied together and have a number of ceremonies: the bunneye ceremony is a fairly important occasion in which a notable elder is allocated the responsibility to manage and control judicial oversight to make and control laws. The ngarra is instead a cleansing and washing ceremony, while keeparra is a traditional initiation rite.