hy and manageable weight. Even though we might find eating the same food everyday bland, the koalas find it satisfying.
They sleep 18 hours a day and eat the equivalent of their own body weight every two weeks. Imagine if you were that lazy and entitled! But koalas can get away with it because they are (seemingly) so cute and cuddly. Koalas are the laziest of creatures. However, unlike cats, which are also quite lazy, they would make terrible pets. You would hardly be able to feed them enough, and their sharp claws would wreak worse havoc on your furniture than a feline. Not to mention the horrible smell from their stink glands if they felt that you were encroaching on their territory.
Koalas are mostly nocturnal animals and are primarily active at night. They might be slightly busy at dawn or dusk. That might be because, in the cooler hours, the koala is less likely to lose the precious moisture and energy than they would if they were active during the hotter daylight hours. Koalas have a thick wooly fur that protects them from both high and low temperatures so they can comfortably survive. The coat on the koala’s bottom is densely packed. It essentially provides them with a cushion for the stiff branches that they sit and sleep on. If you spent between 18 and 20 hours a day, you would want to be comfortable too.
At first glance, a koala appears cute and cuddly. A few years back, a group of thieves broke into a zoo with the plan to steal a koala to sell for money to buy drugs. The koala went berserk and covered them with so many scratches and lacerations that they had to abort the mission. However, the thieves didn’t give up. Instead, they captured a four-foot crocodile and, despite the reptile’s thrashing, hauled it over the security fence. The moral of the story is that kidnapping a crocodile is easier than kidnapping a koala. Those evil little monsters will scratch and bite the daylights out of you.
Most of the time, these tree-hugging animals keep to themselves. However, sometimes as described above, they snap. At the end of the day, koalas are wild animals. Like most wild animals, they prefer to have no contact with humans at all. One study showed that even captive koalas experienced stress when humans approached too close to them. As you get closer to a koala, their behavior will change. They will likely stop resting or feeding and stare at you nervously. Koalas are not the cute, cuddly, and inviting animal, they are often portrayed as. If you ever find yourself close to one, you should proceed with extreme caution.
A few years ago, a dairy farmer named Ebony Churchill in Victoria, Australia, caught a video of a koala that chased her all-terrain vehicle for several minutes before she finally pulled over to find what the little bugger was up to. She was afraid of the koala attacking her, but he wasn’t giving up interest. Rather than being interested in Ebony or anything that she was hauling, the koala was more intrigued with her vehicle. A little confused, the dairy farmer watched the koala as it made its way around the car, inspecting every inch of it up and down.
Ebony was stunned to find out what the koala wanted. As it turns out, the real object of the koala’s affection was the ATV’s tires. Finding precisely what it wanted, the koala used its sharp claws to latch onto the rear tire and refused to let go for several minutes. Although tires and rubber would not be an obvious thing to eat, the koala found it incredibly appealing. Remarkably, Ebony commented on how cute the koala was and that the animals are particularly active this year. That is only one example of how a koala can leave you feeling shocked.
Not only because they might be attracted to the tires of an ATV but because they don’t realize that eucalyptus leaves are still edible when they are no longer on the tree. In terms of brain-to-body ratio, koalas have some of the smallest brains of any animal on the planet. Another way to measure intelligence is to measure the folds in the brain. For example, Einstein had extra folds in his mind that most people