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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As much as we rag on koalas for being dumb as shit... they sure know how to relax

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Ignorance is bliss.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Brain smooth, stress just slide right off.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago
[–] greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Chlamydia is a major threat to koala populations across Australia. This bacterial disease infects between 20% and 90% of individuals in koala populations.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

That's quite the range

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

wow, if you asked me i would have guessed between 0% and 100%, so I wouldn't be far off from the scientists as someone who knew nothing about it.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's what happens when you don't hunt and take whatever comes strolling along

[–] AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry Mr. Koala, but I ain't no hollaback girl.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

That's koalas

Big K o a l a s

That's koalas!

Big K O A L A S!

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not a dating strategy, that's a freaking totem spirit animal!

[–] leisesprecher 13 points 1 month ago

And he's looking so incredibly comfortable on his branch.

Being stupid, fluffy, permanently buzzed from your only source of food, and probably having chlamydia is the lifestyle we all should strive for.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Hot boy summer 🤷

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago

“Hey Shazza, wanna root?”

[–] Eol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Ain't nothin wrong with that!

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've seen enough videos of rapey koalas to know that they sure as hell do pursue females.

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Drusas@kbin.run 3 points 1 month ago

Just watch a koala documentary and it may well be in there.

[–] boatsnhos615@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago

Koala sex offender registry ftw

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We had some koalas living in our backyard at one of the houses I grew up in. Evenings were spent relaxing to screaming from the female and grunting from the male...

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 1 points 1 month ago

One video I saw some twenty years ago was so disturbing due to how clearly distraught the female was that I haven't been able to think of koalas the same ever since. Like, she might have developed koala PTSD, it was that brutal.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Just waiting for a mate.