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[–] [email protected] 190 points 4 weeks ago (36 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

They are not extinct so I think they are nailing it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Funny you say that, theyre on their way to extinction

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it's probably not the fault of the species responsible for the current great extinction, is it? /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Rampant chlamydia is playing a part but sadly it’s mostly human driven.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Man, I told Bob not to fuck that panda.

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