Thursday, September 3, 2009

The hidden truth about koalas


Oh, look at it. Cute, right? Wrong. Koala bears are not cute if you know their past. An almost sure-fire way to think an animal is no longer cute is to see it have sex. You never look at it the same way. The answer is yes I have seen koala bears have sex and no I did not want to see it. The animal show I was watching on tv switched to a different kind of music and then started playing footage of every animal imaginable being "intimate." Alas, that is not the reason I make the bold claim that koala bears are not cute. The true reason requires a look into the early days of a koala's life. Everybody knows that koala bears eat eucalyptus leaves. The babies drink their mothers' milk. If they went from milk to leaves I wouldn't have a problem with them. Did you know that eucalyptus is poisonous? Adult koala's produce an enzyme that protects them from the poison. What about the little kid koalas that stop drinking milk? I'm gonna tell you. I can't stress enough that this is true and I have seen it (I wish I hadn't). The kid koala actually eats its mothers poop. Let that sink in. The diet goes from milk, to poop, to leaves. Look at that critter, knowing what its done, and tell me that thing is cute. It ate poop!

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