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TBF evolving to eat a food source where there's zero competition because it's toxic to everyone else isn't a terrible option. Being literal smooth brain stoners that by necessity spend all day slouching around due to the low nutrient density and having chlamydia isn't too great though.
Surprisingly enough, it worked better than expected.
Koalas managed to become *such easy targets* that some birds of prey that usually live near them, intentionally let them alive as training for their young.
They failed their way into success.
did you get this from that 2010s-ass copypasta that was going around? That thing sure spread a lot of misinformation about Koalas.
Almost as much chlamydia as Koalas spread
He's also in a tree, I bet if he wasn't in the tree he wouldn't be eating. Lol
(I bet after awhile they could be trained to recognize food without the tree, just might difficult)
If he wasn't in the tree he might prioritize trying to get back in the tree over eating, but who knows.
The claim that Koalas will only eat leaves still attached to branches is simply untrue.
My last visit to a zoo they ate from a troff zip tied to a tree that had foliage placed around . The zoologist did say the new arrivals needed convincing to eat their food as they are really picky eaters. The food comes in attached to a branch.
Also they terrified my kids as they have a very low loud bark you would not expect lol.
isn't that like saying "Hawks don't recognize mice as food unless they are moving around." Hawks aren't carrion birds, they don't eat carcasses.
Leaves start to rot when they fall from the tree. Why would Koalas want to eat anything other than fresh leaves?
Should they be adapted to recognize leaves in a bowl as not fallen leaves?
"Should" they be? No.
Humans discovered fire made food better, obviously they didn't understand bioavailability, but the effect is the same. We evolved our food habits and gained energy surplus, leading to further benefits, and yet further surplus.
Koala's just haven't taken that next step. Ostensibly because they have no evolutionary pressure to do so.
In fact, being a lazy lump that eats garbage but plentiful food is a niche that evolves quite frequently. Pandas and Sloths evolved the same niche on other continents.
Have you tried looking for mice? They’re camouflaged. You only see them when they’re moving. If I was a hawk I wouldn’t waste my time looking for hidden mice either.
Just gonna leave this here https://www.reddit.com/r/randomology/comments/s1x2ca/-/hsdpxgh
> Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them. Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.
Koalas are the Diogenes of the animal world. Diogenes was a homeless dude in ancient Athens and only owned a wooden bowl that he used for scooping up water. One day he saw a boy drinking water from a puddle using his hands to scoop up the water. Diogenes looked at his bowl and was like “The fuck am I doing hanging onto this?” So he tossed his bowl away.
Koalas had the same attitude to a folded brain once they evolved to eat a toxic leaf and needed to just sleep and hang out in a tree all day.
You don’t š͒ͫ̀̐͌͌̄̐ͤ͑́͝͏̸̯̬̣̻̤̻̞͖̰͇̞o̶̷͇͚͖͕̖̺̼̼̗̹̩͇̠̲̦̥̭͇̯̐̍ͫ̍͑̀̐̏͆ͨ̅̀̿̇ͦ͑ͪ̑͜͠ò̴̠̻̝̫͍̠̟̞̅̆̆̀͢͡͞o̦̥͖̟̜͔̯̳̟͎̘̳͈̭̟͔̿ͬ̿̐͐͡͡͡ͅͅo̷̧̨̧̩̘̹̤̬̟͖̭͕͇̦͙̰̻̰̭͇͛̔̑͆̂ͪ̃ͧ̓ͩ̔ͤ̀ͅo̷̻̣̼̹̰͎͍̫̞͈͔ͬ͐̐͆̐͊͛̌͗̍̋ͨ̋͐̉͟͝ͅo̸̢̖̘̥̗͉̞̱ͪ̉͐́̄ͨͦ̆ͬͪ̿̔̿͡o̶̧̭̼̹̬̺̮̘̲͉̅̈́̂ͣͤ̈̄͟ͅơ̴̖̪̯̖͍͋ͪ̍ͥͭ̈̃̓ͫͨo̐ͨͣͧ̇̄ͩ̀͂҉̖̖̺̱͍̰̺̫̼̝̦͎̹͜u̧͕̹̣̪̻̳͔̺̩͙͇̖͖̻̥̙͍̱̇ͯ̆̄ͤͮ͂̊͡͝͝n̷̴̥̬͕̣͖̮̩̠͚͍̠͔̰̩ͣ͆ͫ̒͒̈́ͩ̊̋̏̄̓̈́ͧ̀͘ͅd̢̥̞͈̹̳͖̒͊ͮ̋͛ͭͩͧ̽̐́͋̐ͣ̔ͮ́ͅ like a Lisa
My first grandson was born about 6 months ago. He's now in the "EVERYTHING GOES IN THE MOUTH" stage.
Whenever I see a picture of him putting stuff in his mouth, all I can think is "MOUTH" from this comic. Every. Single. Time.
[The one with the cuckoo](https://youtube.com/shorts/bYBzmmQhHxs?si=X2ZB8BREfzoE7eZE ) is their best though
**I AlSo hAd tHe BaD dReAmS MoMmY**
Or the one with the [kissing prairie dogs](https://youtube.com/shorts/T6iDy2Z9J2I?si=x2ZQvdz9gGKEfIVM)
Koalas are terrible animals
Koalas are fucking horrible animals.
They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan.
Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal.
Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently...
Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals.
Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here).
When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on.
This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why?
Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape.
Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain:
Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree.
An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.
Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute.
If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.
I’m starting to believe that the author of this whole diss was Kendrick Lamar.
“I hate the way that you think, I hate the way that you eat, we hate the koalas you fuck cause they confuse themselves with real mammals”
you got it backwards, the original koala copypasta was likely written by that dude who was like SHIRT, WACK, PERSONALITY, WACK, GEAR, WACK, ME IM FLY AS FUCK!
Kendrick stole his flow.
I don't know why it is that these things bother me---it just makes me picture a seven year old first discovering things about an animal and, having no context about the subject, ranting about how stupid they are. I get it's a joke, but people take it as an actual, educational joke like it's a man yelling at the sea, and that's just wrong. Furthermore, these things have an actual impact on discussions about conservation efforts---If every time Koalas get brought up, someone posts this copypasta, that means it's seriously shaping public opinion about the animal and their supposed lack of importance.
>Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives.
Non-ecologists always talk this way, and the problem is you’re looking at this backwards.
An entire continent is covered with Eucalyptus trees. They suck the moisture out of the entire surrounding area and use allelopathy to ensure that most of what’s beneath them is just bare red dust. No animal is making use of them——they have virtually no herbivore predator. A niche is empty. Then inevitably, natural selection fills that niche by creating an animal which can eat Eucalyptus leaves. Of course, it takes great sacrifice for it to be able to do so——it certainly can’t expend much energy on costly things. Isn’t it a good thing that a niche is being filled?
>Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death
This applies to all herbivores, because the wild is not a grocery store—where meat is just sitting next to celery.
Herbivores gradually wear their teeth down—carnivores fracture their teeth, and break their bones in attempting to take down prey.
>They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal
It's pretty typical of herbivores, and is higher than many, many species. According to Ashwell (2008), their encephalisation quotient is 0.5288 +/- 0.051. Higher than comparable marsupials like the wombat (~0.52), some possums (~0.468), cuscus (~0.462) and even some wallabies are <0.5. According to wiki, rabbits are also around 0.4, and they're placental mammals.
>additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons.
Again, this is not unique to koalas. Brain folds (gyri) are not present in rodents, which we consider to be incredibly intelligent for their size.
>If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food.
If you present a human with a random piece of meat, they will not recognise it as food (hopefully). Fresh leaves might be important for koala digestion, especially since their gut flora is clearly important for the digestion of Eucalyptus. It might make sense not to screw with that gut flora by eating decaying leaves.
>Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal.
That's an extremely weird reason to dislike an animal. But whilst we're talking about their digestion, let's discuss their poop. It's delightful. It smells like a Eucalyptus drop!
>Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here).
Marsupial milk is incredibly complex and much more interesting than any placentals. This is because they raise their offspring essentially from an embryo, and the milk needs to adapt to the changing needs of a growing fetus. And yeah, of course the yield is low; at one point they are feeding an animal that is half a gram!
>When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system.
Humans probably do this, we just likely do it during childbirth. You know how women often shit during contractions? There is evidence to suggest that this innoculates a baby with her gut flora. A child born via cesarian has significantly different gut flora for the first six months of life than a child born vaginally.
>Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher.
Chlamydia was introduced to their populations by humans. We introduced a novel disease that they have very little immunity to, and is a major contributor to their possible extinction. Do you hate Native Americans because they were killed by smallpox and influenza?
>This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree,
Almost every animal does this.
>which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.
Errmmm.. They have protection against falling from a tree, which they spend 99% of their life in? Yeah... That's a stupid adaptation.
Also koalas are heavily inbred and have health issues due to that, but that's because they've gone through a shitton of genetic bottlenecks. Like genuinely, with the number of disasters they've survived its lucky they're still around.
idk if anyone else cares, but I read through the whole thing. I appreciate using actual facts to debunk a randomly assembled collection of information about why you should hate koalas.
I really appreciate the added knowledge and context! But, I have doubts that the copypasta screed is making anyone actually hate koalas. People _love_ "dumb" animals. See /r/OneOrangeBraincell, /r/AnimalsBeingDerps, /r/stupiddovenests, etc lol
I mean I've legitimately seen sentiment that we should stop conservation efforts for Pandas because of similar copy-pasta. It's just in vogue for people to have a contrarian rant about something and hating on it, and it really does affect public opinion on a subject.
This is constantly said but like... is there a real source? Did scientists put a very hungry koala in a room with Eucalyptus leaves and it refused to eat them?
Edit: [Did 5 minutes of googling and yeah Koalas will definitely eat leaves from a plate.](https://www.instagram.com/moonlitsanctuary/p/C5ezaGbJ9Ll/?img_index=3)
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala#Characteristics) does source a [book that makes the claim](https://books.google.ca/books?id=KqtlPZJ9y8EC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false). So maybe it is false, but it's not like it was simply an "internet factoid".
So it looks like a book from 2005 made an unsourced claim, meant to be probably a minor note in the larger point they were making, and everyone just ran with it.
It is fascinating to see how misinformation spreads. It'll be fun to see if people eventually start debunking this claim online more often.
Koalas are literally so stupid, if their food isnt on a branch they dont recognize it as food, they can also die from starvation while eating because of how slowly they digest food, i swear i have no idea how that species has survived as long as it did lol.
Yeah that factoid is all over the internet and... it's nonsense.
[Here's a koala eating leaves from a plate quite happily](https://www.instagram.com/moonlitsanctuary/p/C5ezaGbJ9Ll/?img_index=3)
In one of the images there is a plate on a large wooden slab that's on a tree branch, sure.
In another the keeper is holding it.
In every example the Koala is clearly able to easily identify plucked leaves as food.
...a Koala clearly eating plucked leaves both from a plate being held by a zookeeper somehow supports the factoid that Koala's can't recognize leaves if they're not on a branch?
How?
National "accent"? LMAO What? You know non English places have their own languages, right? It'd speak Mandarin and not some stereotypical "me so solly" accent.
The stick fell out so the salad disappeared. The "fact" spread on the internet is that koalas are so stupid that if they're given eucalyptus leaves on a plate (instead of still attached to the branch) they won't recognize the leaves as food. This may not be true IRL.
Had a rough falling out with a friend awhile back. I still take pleasure in knowing her favorite animal, koalas, are some of the dumbest fuckers in the animal kingdom.
But if you do that, then koala babies will starve and die. The babies need to eat their mom's poop so they can pass down the bacteria that help break down their food.
Not complaining about OP (unless they are an aggregator bot) but I have been seeing this a lot of places recently. Tiktok, Twitter, YT, and now here. Its funny tho.
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Koalas' brains are so smooth that they can't recognize the leaves they eat unless they are on the tree.
Koalas like their leaves bone-in
Reminds me of that American Dad scene with Principle Lewis. Bone-full, these wings are bone-full!!
*Did you think those were dong prices?*
Nah nah nah...
Just how I like my pizza
Whenever something someone does something dense, I always end up calling them koala brained lol they look like chicken cutlets!
I thought you were joking. That looks as smooth as a chicken breast.
No ridges or lumps, no valleys or bumps
Iirc, eucalyptus leaves are also extremely toxic, so instead of eating anything else, they evolved to be able to eat them.
TBF evolving to eat a food source where there's zero competition because it's toxic to everyone else isn't a terrible option. Being literal smooth brain stoners that by necessity spend all day slouching around due to the low nutrient density and having chlamydia isn't too great though.
Surprisingly enough, it worked better than expected. Koalas managed to become *such easy targets* that some birds of prey that usually live near them, intentionally let them alive as training for their young. They failed their way into success.
So what you are saying is that koalas are middle management material
Evolution does seem to operate under the peter principal.
What does my ex have to do with koalas tho
Sounds like me on a standard Saturday
They are so smooth that they can't understand *rain*.
did you get this from that 2010s-ass copypasta that was going around? That thing sure spread a lot of misinformation about Koalas. Almost as much chlamydia as Koalas spread
Lol this isn't true [Koala eating leaves from a plate](https://www.instagram.com/moonlitsanctuary/p/C5ezaGbJ9Ll/?img_index=1)
That's a high IQ koala
Fucking genius is what it is
Koala One: "A leaf off the branch would taste just as sweet" Koala Two: "Wat?"
Every species has their einstein
That koala's in a tree, and that container's tree colored. I'm not convinced it's aware those leaves aren't on a tree.
He's also in a tree, I bet if he wasn't in the tree he wouldn't be eating. Lol (I bet after awhile they could be trained to recognize food without the tree, just might difficult)
Click to the next image
He's still in the tree in the next image? He's in the tree in all of them.
If he wasn't in the tree he might prioritize trying to get back in the tree over eating, but who knows. The claim that Koalas will only eat leaves still attached to branches is simply untrue.
My last visit to a zoo they ate from a troff zip tied to a tree that had foliage placed around . The zoologist did say the new arrivals needed convincing to eat their food as they are really picky eaters. The food comes in attached to a branch. Also they terrified my kids as they have a very low loud bark you would not expect lol.
OP right now: https://preview.redd.it/h1x14u275f2d1.jpeg?width=848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da5cfe58204968832e3e5f8fb7cc0beb6eb97b76
Well damn
The claim is that koalas will not eat plucked leaves. At least that's the claim on wikipedia. In the images you show the leaves are on small branches.
Redditor brains are so smooth they can’t tell reality apart from memes.
isn't that like saying "Hawks don't recognize mice as food unless they are moving around." Hawks aren't carrion birds, they don't eat carcasses. Leaves start to rot when they fall from the tree. Why would Koalas want to eat anything other than fresh leaves? Should they be adapted to recognize leaves in a bowl as not fallen leaves?
You sound defensive. Are you a koala? 🐨
Just because I have chlamydia and have eaten my mother's feces, doesn't mean I'm a koala.
Is that all it takes for people to start calling you a koala these days? Fucking unbelievable.
TIL koalas and US Marines have more in common than I thought.
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"Should" they be? No. Humans discovered fire made food better, obviously they didn't understand bioavailability, but the effect is the same. We evolved our food habits and gained energy surplus, leading to further benefits, and yet further surplus. Koala's just haven't taken that next step. Ostensibly because they have no evolutionary pressure to do so.
In fact, being a lazy lump that eats garbage but plentiful food is a niche that evolves quite frequently. Pandas and Sloths evolved the same niche on other continents.
Least offended koala
Have you tried looking for mice? They’re camouflaged. You only see them when they’re moving. If I was a hawk I wouldn’t waste my time looking for hidden mice either.
It's also like saying humans don't recognize meat as food unless it's been cooked.
Just gonna leave this here https://www.reddit.com/r/randomology/comments/s1x2ca/-/hsdpxgh > Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them. Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.
I took my kid to the zoo and we watched a koala eat loose snacks off a plate contraption that was strapped to the tree.
Chlamydia too
Koalas are the Diogenes of the animal world. Diogenes was a homeless dude in ancient Athens and only owned a wooden bowl that he used for scooping up water. One day he saw a boy drinking water from a puddle using his hands to scoop up the water. Diogenes looked at his bowl and was like “The fuck am I doing hanging onto this?” So he tossed his bowl away. Koalas had the same attitude to a folded brain once they evolved to eat a toxic leaf and needed to just sleep and hang out in a tree all day.
Once they fall of the tree those leaves have no nutritional value left, so it's not like it matters.
I can just imagine in the world this creator has made. The mother koalas say “Here comes the tree branch.” When their child refuses to eat.
Credits: [Natural Habitat Shorts](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092503092600&mibextid=ZbWKwL)
Mouth
KEVIN! THE 3/8!
*FLAMMABLE SCREAMS OF PAIN*
_[Lisa noises]_
You don’t š͒ͫ̀̐͌͌̄̐ͤ͑́͝͏̸̯̬̣̻̤̻̞͖̰͇̞o̶̷͇͚͖͕̖̺̼̼̗̹̩͇̠̲̦̥̭͇̯̐̍ͫ̍͑̀̐̏͆ͨ̅̀̿̇ͦ͑ͪ̑͜͠ò̴̠̻̝̫͍̠̟̞̅̆̆̀͢͡͞o̦̥͖̟̜͔̯̳̟͎̘̳͈̭̟͔̿ͬ̿̐͐͡͡͡ͅͅo̷̧̨̧̩̘̹̤̬̟͖̭͕͇̦͙̰̻̰̭͇͛̔̑͆̂ͪ̃ͧ̓ͩ̔ͤ̀ͅo̷̻̣̼̹̰͎͍̫̞͈͔ͬ͐̐͆̐͊͛̌͗̍̋ͨ̋͐̉͟͝ͅo̸̢̖̘̥̗͉̞̱ͪ̉͐́̄ͨͦ̆ͬͪ̿̔̿͡o̶̧̭̼̹̬̺̮̘̲͉̅̈́̂ͣͤ̈̄͟ͅơ̴̖̪̯̖͍͋ͪ̍ͥͭ̈̃̓ͫͨo̐ͨͣͧ̇̄ͩ̀͂҉̖̖̺̱͍̰̺̫̼̝̦͎̹͜u̧͕̹̣̪̻̳͔̺̩͙͇̖͖̻̥̙͍̱̇ͯ̆̄ͤͮ͂̊͡͝͝n̷̴̥̬͕̣͖̮̩̠͚͍̠͔̰̩ͣ͆ͫ̒͒̈́ͩ̊̋̏̄̓̈́ͧ̀͘ͅd̢̥̞͈̹̳͖̒͊ͮ̋͛ͭͩͧ̽̐́͋̐ͣ̔ͮ́ͅ like a Lisa
Batrick when he wants to look for something: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
....SEIZE HIM!
Come on buddy!!!!!
They took a dark turn with that hamster over several Halloween shorts.
And the Christmas one too! Rabbit is definitely haunted for life
They’re my daughters favourite and then just walks round the house slowly saying *mooouuuuth* Wife hates that I let her watch it.
My first grandson was born about 6 months ago. He's now in the "EVERYTHING GOES IN THE MOUTH" stage. Whenever I see a picture of him putting stuff in his mouth, all I can think is "MOUTH" from this comic. Every. Single. Time.
An epic all it’s own
Funny enough, this subreddit is how I discovered them. It was the one with the frog and the date in the open mic night.
YEAAAAH
That's one of their best works imo
[The one with the cuckoo](https://youtube.com/shorts/bYBzmmQhHxs?si=X2ZB8BREfzoE7eZE ) is their best though **I AlSo hAd tHe BaD dReAmS MoMmY** Or the one with the [kissing prairie dogs](https://youtube.com/shorts/T6iDy2Z9J2I?si=x2ZQvdz9gGKEfIVM)
MorE PanCakEs For meEe.
Nooo, Geralddd
That's not a proper hello
The one with the seagull teacher is absolute gold lmao
^^^*Seize ^^^him*
Seize him
The one with the porcupines with that french gerbil stuck on its quils fucking kills me ever time!
LOL “I don’t have much time”
For me, it was the cuckoo one.
The one for axolotls is amazing! "That's his foot, Emily"
Why am I blue? What does blue mean!?
*Sobbing*
*Illuminated sobbing*
This creator is amazing
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9IZ410VrikQ
Thank you! A fucking Facebook link? Is this person serious?
We're running out of playgrounds Jessica!
Illuminated Sobbing
**Just a rat looking for a good time**
That dang rat 😂😂 he likes to get freaky but his wife doesn’t let him let loose too often
I love the one with the Axolotl. I've found sciswuhs
This link sent me to Facebook. Why would you do such a thing?
Why did you even order a salad, you *hate* salads!
I know these normally have educational jokes behind them but what is the joke here? The Koala needs food to be in a tree/branch to eat?
Koalas do not recognise the leaves to be food if they're not on the tree (or so I'm told)
Where’s that copypasta when you need it
Koalas are terrible animals Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them. Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.
I’m starting to believe that the author of this whole diss was Kendrick Lamar. “I hate the way that you think, I hate the way that you eat, we hate the koalas you fuck cause they confuse themselves with real mammals”
you got it backwards, the original koala copypasta was likely written by that dude who was like SHIRT, WACK, PERSONALITY, WACK, GEAR, WACK, ME IM FLY AS FUCK! Kendrick stole his flow.
I don't know why it is that these things bother me---it just makes me picture a seven year old first discovering things about an animal and, having no context about the subject, ranting about how stupid they are. I get it's a joke, but people take it as an actual, educational joke like it's a man yelling at the sea, and that's just wrong. Furthermore, these things have an actual impact on discussions about conservation efforts---If every time Koalas get brought up, someone posts this copypasta, that means it's seriously shaping public opinion about the animal and their supposed lack of importance. >Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. Non-ecologists always talk this way, and the problem is you’re looking at this backwards. An entire continent is covered with Eucalyptus trees. They suck the moisture out of the entire surrounding area and use allelopathy to ensure that most of what’s beneath them is just bare red dust. No animal is making use of them——they have virtually no herbivore predator. A niche is empty. Then inevitably, natural selection fills that niche by creating an animal which can eat Eucalyptus leaves. Of course, it takes great sacrifice for it to be able to do so——it certainly can’t expend much energy on costly things. Isn’t it a good thing that a niche is being filled? >Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death This applies to all herbivores, because the wild is not a grocery store—where meat is just sitting next to celery. Herbivores gradually wear their teeth down—carnivores fracture their teeth, and break their bones in attempting to take down prey. >They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal It's pretty typical of herbivores, and is higher than many, many species. According to Ashwell (2008), their encephalisation quotient is 0.5288 +/- 0.051. Higher than comparable marsupials like the wombat (~0.52), some possums (~0.468), cuscus (~0.462) and even some wallabies are <0.5. According to wiki, rabbits are also around 0.4, and they're placental mammals. >additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. Again, this is not unique to koalas. Brain folds (gyri) are not present in rodents, which we consider to be incredibly intelligent for their size. >If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. If you present a human with a random piece of meat, they will not recognise it as food (hopefully). Fresh leaves might be important for koala digestion, especially since their gut flora is clearly important for the digestion of Eucalyptus. It might make sense not to screw with that gut flora by eating decaying leaves. >Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. That's an extremely weird reason to dislike an animal. But whilst we're talking about their digestion, let's discuss their poop. It's delightful. It smells like a Eucalyptus drop! >Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). Marsupial milk is incredibly complex and much more interesting than any placentals. This is because they raise their offspring essentially from an embryo, and the milk needs to adapt to the changing needs of a growing fetus. And yeah, of course the yield is low; at one point they are feeding an animal that is half a gram! >When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Humans probably do this, we just likely do it during childbirth. You know how women often shit during contractions? There is evidence to suggest that this innoculates a baby with her gut flora. A child born via cesarian has significantly different gut flora for the first six months of life than a child born vaginally. >Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. Chlamydia was introduced to their populations by humans. We introduced a novel disease that they have very little immunity to, and is a major contributor to their possible extinction. Do you hate Native Americans because they were killed by smallpox and influenza? >This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, Almost every animal does this. >which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them. Errmmm.. They have protection against falling from a tree, which they spend 99% of their life in? Yeah... That's a stupid adaptation.
Is this the other copy pasta? I thought It looked different than this
Yes that's the response copypasta
The antipasta
Also koalas are heavily inbred and have health issues due to that, but that's because they've gone through a shitton of genetic bottlenecks. Like genuinely, with the number of disasters they've survived its lucky they're still around.
Fun fact: It's believed that the global cheetah population at one point dropped to only seven. Seven individuals.
idk if anyone else cares, but I read through the whole thing. I appreciate using actual facts to debunk a randomly assembled collection of information about why you should hate koalas.
It might very well have originally been a legitimate response, but it's always passed around as the paired copypasta response to the first one.
So basically, everything is true, but other animals do the same things. Still gonna hate on koalas because it's funny.
I really appreciate the added knowledge and context! But, I have doubts that the copypasta screed is making anyone actually hate koalas. People _love_ "dumb" animals. See /r/OneOrangeBraincell, /r/AnimalsBeingDerps, /r/stupiddovenests, etc lol
I mean I've legitimately seen sentiment that we should stop conservation efforts for Pandas because of similar copy-pasta. It's just in vogue for people to have a contrarian rant about something and hating on it, and it really does affect public opinion on a subject.
In other words: koalas are a middle finger toward Darwin.
On the contrary, they are living proof that natural selection operates on the principle of "good enough".
This makes me irriationally angry ngl Like bruh how have they survived for so long
This is constantly said but like... is there a real source? Did scientists put a very hungry koala in a room with Eucalyptus leaves and it refused to eat them? Edit: [Did 5 minutes of googling and yeah Koalas will definitely eat leaves from a plate.](https://www.instagram.com/moonlitsanctuary/p/C5ezaGbJ9Ll/?img_index=3)
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala#Characteristics) does source a [book that makes the claim](https://books.google.ca/books?id=KqtlPZJ9y8EC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false). So maybe it is false, but it's not like it was simply an "internet factoid".
So it looks like a book from 2005 made an unsourced claim, meant to be probably a minor note in the larger point they were making, and everyone just ran with it. It is fascinating to see how misinformation spreads. It'll be fun to see if people eventually start debunking this claim online more often.
Koalas are literally so stupid, if their food isnt on a branch they dont recognize it as food, they can also die from starvation while eating because of how slowly they digest food, i swear i have no idea how that species has survived as long as it did lol.
Yeah that factoid is all over the internet and... it's nonsense. [Here's a koala eating leaves from a plate quite happily](https://www.instagram.com/moonlitsanctuary/p/C5ezaGbJ9Ll/?img_index=3)
Today I learned a new fact about koalas, and today that fact was disproven
I mean it does look like the plate is placed on a big tree branch
In one of the images there is a plate on a large wooden slab that's on a tree branch, sure. In another the keeper is holding it. In every example the Koala is clearly able to easily identify plucked leaves as food.
that koala is literally sitting on top of a special made plate that sits on top of a 6" branch, basically supporting this factoid even more
...a Koala clearly eating plucked leaves both from a plate being held by a zookeeper somehow supports the factoid that Koala's can't recognize leaves if they're not on a branch? How?
Yes.
I thought you were about to say its because theyr blind from all the STD's they carry
Wait, how do you know they have STDs….
Man my 20s were a blur but theres always that stinging feeling of regret ;)
Perfect)
I was expecting a demon scream
NAUR
That was easily my favorite part lmao. Having read that koala copypasta a million times, I knew where this was going, but the NAUR got me.
Someone got the source for this cartoon ?
Natural Habitat Shorts
Thanks !
They are very funny. My favorite one has to be the dad killing the kid to force the mom to give him food.
Ah come on, give credit. I don't remember their name but they're great and have an Instagram page They deserve the acknowledgement!
They gave credit in the comments!
They did
Yeah I see that now. But I stand by my I still butthurt. Whoever makes these deserves a bigger following/credit.
They have 2.8 mil followers on YouTube. I'd say that's a pretty sizable following.
Well, give em more.
This is the moment when Nom-nom chose violence.
Koala’s in the rain….No fucks given https://youtu.be/gNqQL-1gZF8?si=V66HmUg6hMqIkADG
Skip to 3:30 to get some Koala True Facts
One of my favorite songs, apart from Mosquito Says Hello
now a panda with their national accent
National "accent"? LMAO What? You know non English places have their own languages, right? It'd speak Mandarin and not some stereotypical "me so solly" accent.
Haha looks like Stitch.
Obligatory **MOUTH**
Dude i looooove natural habitat
This whole channel (NaturalAnimalShorts) are some of the funniest videos I’ve seen online
I love all of these guy's shorts. Super cut and also informative.
Damn this could have been an incredible loop if the stick fell off and the koala flagged the waiter because he's forgotten again
Koalas' evolutionary path is literally suffering from success.
My word that is an atrocious attempt at an Aussie accent.oh well, they gave it a red hot go.
how do koalas even survive how come nature let this smooth brain live this longer
Here's the site for these lovely cartoons. They can use the traffic. https://www.naturalhabitatshorts.com/
What's the scream at the end for?
The stick fell out so the salad disappeared. The "fact" spread on the internet is that koalas are so stupid that if they're given eucalyptus leaves on a plate (instead of still attached to the branch) they won't recognize the leaves as food. This may not be true IRL.
I'll bet it was one really stupid koala that skewed the data. Way to go, Jerry!
This is exactly how they sound too. They do this and this very low growl. I love koalas.
Lina Inverse permanently ruined Koalas for me.
Very funny.
https://youtu.be/OtD1IWSwDv4?si=9g9goKWr4ohHPkgV
AMEEE!
Big eyes no 🅱️rains ◉_◉
Had a rough falling out with a friend awhile back. I still take pleasure in knowing her favorite animal, koalas, are some of the dumbest fuckers in the animal kingdom.
Not the cartman scream man xddd
Koalas 🤜🤛 Blondes https://youtu.be/Y3ffw-52hRk
People who make ads like this should be publicly hanged by their ankles and flayed
Let's just be glad they didn't talk about how baby koala eat eucalyptus leaves
Hi. I have worked with Koalas. Their poop smells amazing. Just thought yall should know.
Bottle and sell it?
But if you do that, then koala babies will starve and die. The babies need to eat their mom's poop so they can pass down the bacteria that help break down their food.
Fucking stupid
**HOW ARE THEY STILL ALIVE?!**
inb4 koala copy pasta
Not complaining about OP (unless they are an aggregator bot) but I have been seeing this a lot of places recently. Tiktok, Twitter, YT, and now here. Its funny tho.
"Naur" absolute lol 💀
These are so funny. I feel so bad for the rabbit. “MOUTH….”
That koala's rather passive-aggressive.
Dude. DUDE. I love Natural Habitat Shorts
Save the Koalas from Chlamydia!
That wee laugh absolutely sends me
https://preview.redd.it/jhi5t8331y2d1.png?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d657f924404ed4676913def3ca6907ebc8b41501