Eucalyptus

Koalas are so dumb, that they can't recognise a leaf unless it's on a branch

If you try to offer them a leaf, they won't touch it, even if they're hungry

They need to see it on a branch to understand what it is, and that it's food

And they're riddled with chlamydia too

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.

edit: Yall know this is a copypasta right?

I mean, one of my favorite foods is a Reese's peanut cup. I wouldn't exactly call that nutritionally dense.

I don't think we've got a ton of room to judge here.

If only it was toxic if prepared incorrectly and tasted of rubber sock, humans would also adopt it as a delicacy.

You can say the same thing about people lining up at McDonald's

Mother Koala: shits our nutrient-poor eucalyptus

Baby Koala: this is some serious gourmet shit

Please do the same for every animal that exists

Koalas literally have smooth brains.

The thoughts slide right off this dumb cunt... I love him.

Apparently the leaves ferment in koalas’ stomachs, with the result that koalas spend their entire lives drunk.

These memes, some serious gourmet shit!

And it's even worse. They only eat some kinds of Eucalyptus. They found this out with a koala in a zoo. They supplied him with fresh branches, but refused to eat them. All while trying to get to some eucalyptus tree right next to his cage. They gave him a branch from that tree, which he devoured.

Turned out that the tree next to the cage and the one where they got the food from were different genetic variants of eucalyptus trees that are indistinguishable for normal humans.

They’re also so stupid that if you give em a plate of eucalyptus they’re like “the hell is this?”

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