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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

oh and they can eat a specific type of eucalyptus, and not just any type like the invasive blue gum. and they wont conceptualize leaves in front of them, if its not on a branch.

also being susceptible to chlamydia, which was theoretically though to have come from farm animals by colonist centuries ago. additionally, they have a retrovirus, called koala retrovrisus(koala HIV) which likely came from a monkey virus(high genetic similarities), they dont know how it came from them.