Ok Just For Curiosity Reasons

Ok just for curiosity reasons

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Should I ask how cursed and dumb koalas are? Because I've heard they're pretty self destructive and as I've said before, dumb?)

not dumb at all, actually!

all those "koalas are evolutionary dead ends and their bodies are riddled with toxins" posts are just hate clickbait- koalas are normal animals on the lower end of the smarts scale but no less intelligent than say, a squirrel.

YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID BASTARD JEREMY, I SAW YOU ALMOST GET RUN OVER BY THAT MOPED LAST WEEK WHEN YOU WENT AFTER HALF A CHICKEN SANDWICH IN THE GUTTER

in fact, koalas are just one of MANY mammals that have specialized into eating a noxious/dangerous plant that other animals in their ecosystem avoid, which is a totally valid strategy and works really well as long as your food source doesn't go extinct!

another notable mammal that specced into this niche is:

giraffes!

and yet, I have yet to see any shouty wildlife articles calling giraffes an "evolutionary dead end"...

(though to be fair, a giraffe is more likely than a koala to render you into a monkey pancake for the insult)

and finally, koalas aren't actually poisonous! they're part of their ecosystem like any other animal, and regularly get chowed down on by multiple different predators, including humans.

"shit bro, maybe you guys should just try these leafs instead. love these leafs."

in this way, koalas are actually a VERY IMPORTANT PART of their ecosystem, because their participation in the australian food web means that nutrients that otherwise would remain locked in eucalyptus trees and inaccessible to most other animals get passed up the chain when a koala eats the eucalyptus leaves and eventually is eaten itself in turn!

*swelling music*

IT IS. THE CIRCLE. OF LIFE.

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