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I'm out on the Great Ocean Road and I've
just spotted my first koala in the wild
uh since moving to Australia 7 years ago
he's pretty amazing uh looks like he's
just woken up and he's a little bit
groggy um as you can see koalas don't
really do that
much he wants to get to a
TR oh no oh no don't touch the
koala that's a bad
idea doubt that he likes being chased
like
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that
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as you can see he doesn't really do very
much in fact koalas can sleep about 20
hours a day and that's because the
eucalyptus leaves they eat are not
particularly nutritious and they're very
difficult to digest in fact they have
some bacteria in their gut that helps
them digest those leaves and when a baby
koala is born it doesn't actually have
that bacteria in its gut so the first
thing it has to do is eat its mom's
poo So that's its first meal not really
the best way to enter life but there you
go that's the life of a koala and most
of the rest of life is sleeping and
eating those crappy leaves
doesn't sound like a lot of fun I don't
think I would like
it when you think about the awesome
specimens that Evolution has produced
it's a wonder these guys are still
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alive