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Why are Koalas so awful?

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Are Koalas Cute?

Koalas are 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 lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, **** and occasionally scream like 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 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 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.

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who was dumped by a koala ?

:holmes:
watch urself
Okay but they're still cute and nothing will ever change that.
Original post by the bear
who was dumped by a koala ?

:holmes:


All Koalas are the same, I'm such a nice guy, why don't more Koalas like me
Well you have laid out a very coherent arguement very logical.What degree do you study?
what an ignorant and disgusting post, you koalaphobic bigot. it's people like you that fuel the hatred towards innocent Koala bears.
Original post by Leviathan1611
what an ignorant and disgusting post, you koalaphobic bigot. it's people like you that fuel the hatred towards innocent Koala bears.


I don't want Koala ideology in my country.
Original post by Anonymous1502
Well you have laid out a very coherent arguement very logical.What degree do you study?


Reddit Studies, majoring in copypasta

:teehee:
Pff typical Koala loving liberal.
Original post by anosmianAcrimony
Okay but they're still cute and nothing will ever change that.
Best not insult koalas on this site :eek2: @BlinkyBill @candokoala @CJ

the powers above us are overepresented by koalas :koala:
I just know a lot about Koalas, but my degree is in media.
Original post by Anonymous1502
Well you have laid out a very coherent arguement very logical.What degree do you study?
Thank you for this... interesting lesson on Koala behaviour and biology; I feel somewhat educated
Original post by TheRealSquiddy
Koalas are 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 lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, **** and occasionally scream like 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 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 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.
Copypasta losers are the worst losers.
Fed up Koalas coming to our forums and taking hardworking English pigeons jobs. This is why we need brexit.
Original post by CoolCavy
Best not insult koalas on this site :eek2: @BlinkyBill @candokoala @CJ

the powers above us are overepresented by koalas :koala:
You're gonna blow my cover, shhh
Original post by Palmyra
Copypasta losers are the worst losers.
Original post by TheRealSquiddy
I don't want Koala ideology in my country.


I can't believe what I just read, it's 2019 and yet people like you still exist. how does it feel to wake every morning with pure hatred towards to creature who haven't done ANYTHING to you. you're so hateful! I hope your kind die out
They are also really heavy.

Yes. I have held one.
I only follow r/incels
Original post by the bear
Reddit Studies, majoring in copypasta

:teehee:
Original post by TheRealSquiddy
I just know a lot about Koalas, but my degree is in media.


They are cute but don't seem very smart at all.If Australia didn't have so few predators they would have died out.

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