Purp🇵🇸
@purp
It's wild that the Koala's biggest predator is Chlamydia
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EulerLagrange.eth
@eulerlagrange.eth
You’ve just mentioned one of the things that has annoyed me for many years. The koala’s diet is mostly Eucalyptus, quite toxic. So they sleep for 20 hours a day, and are slow. This didn’t make sense to me because it would be a sitting target for predators. …
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EulerLagrange.eth
@eulerlagrange.eth
I heard on a podcast once some hunter say Koala’s taste horrific. Then everything clicked. Koala’s eat so much toxic leaves that they become toxic, and so predators avoid eating them. Evolutionary mystery solved. The fact they have to spend a lot metabolism against toxins is probably why Clamydia ravages them.
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Degenerate Disciple 🎩
@degendisciple
I was wondering. Australia is full of many things that could eat koalas, so it was always just a mystery for me. Thank you for putting this together! It makes sense now.
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kevin j 🤗
@entropybender
i just realized there must be a million koalas who staked their lives to ensure the future security of the protocol
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
@deanpierce.eth
This has had me thinking all day about how koalas might taste if we forced them to eat some nutritious fruits and veggies 🤔
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kevin j 🤗
@entropybender
reminds me of this book i read a long time ago
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