Why Do People Hate Koalas? (ft.

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  • On the Internet, koalas get an unnecessary amount of hate, so let's debunk some of the most pervasive koala myths! Featuring ‪@tibees‬
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Комментарии • 1,2 тыс.

  • @tibees
    @tibees Год назад +1318

    Totally eucalypt-ic video! Glad I could lend a voice to a friend in need 🐨

    • @donteattidepods
      @donteattidepods Год назад +8

      👍

    • @ChariotduNord
      @ChariotduNord Год назад +40

      I RECOGNIZED YOUR VOICE INSTANTLY!! OMG such a pleasure to have a tibees cameo

    • @zim_
      @zim_ Год назад +13

      Tibees ur voice best in class

    • @raybombs
      @raybombs Год назад +6

      Im here because of you! Great content😊

    • @erongobis5447
      @erongobis5447 Год назад +2

      Same

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 Год назад +1409

    To be fair, if you put a plate of eucalyptus leaves in front of me, I wouldn't eat them either.
    And Toby did a great koala voice!

    • @alphaapple1375
      @alphaapple1375 Год назад +42

      For those who are familiar with the metric system:
      At 2:41: "Eucalypus leaves are toxic to most animals but not koalas. That's because you koalas have super-long digestive tracts -- including a 1.8-meter-long caecum -- full of specialized gut bacteria that detoxify the leaves."

    • @I_am_him_42069
      @I_am_him_42069 Год назад +1

      gandalf, the only thing that didn't pass was u

    • @raybombs
      @raybombs Год назад +2

      She is a good koala

    • @mikesmith7620
      @mikesmith7620 Год назад +1

      John Pinette “Where did arugula come from?”

    • @丫o
      @丫o 9 месяцев назад +3

      To be equally fair, you’re not a koala, so it follows that you wouldn’t eat eucalyptus leaves.

  • @oucyan
    @oucyan Год назад +968

    I surprised you didn't bring up the Chlamydia claims. That's what I was looking most forward to learning about

    • @elif6908
      @elif6908 Год назад +84

      It is true but as far as I know chlamydia passed to koalas from humans so it’s not intrinsic to them so maybe they’re excluded it because of this

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt Год назад +92

      that was the only negative thing I knew about koalas, lol.

    • @pharynx007
      @pharynx007 Год назад +7

      a concierge in perth told me about that one

    • @trla6505
      @trla6505 Год назад +33

      This was just picking the false or half true , they are in fact stupid screaming beast

    • @Dyejob01
      @Dyejob01 Год назад +25

      I assumed that this was going to be the primary reason for the Internet hate, too.

  • @Croz89
    @Croz89 Год назад +1199

    I don't think think I've seen a lot of Koala hate, people just think they're slow and pretty stupid, especially for a mammal of their size. Kind of like the Australian version of sloths.

    • @Stinkee1129
      @Stinkee1129 Год назад +94

      It’s honestly more of a meme than an actual hate for Koalas

    • @baileescott401
      @baileescott401 Год назад +24

      @@Stinkee1129 pretty sure everyone was joking when they said "Koala smooth brain"

    • @NativeVsColonial
      @NativeVsColonial Год назад +16

      @@baileescott401Yeah, when people say someone a donkey, that doesn’t mean people hate donkeys, it’s just a stereotype and a way to express measurements.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 Год назад +24

      There's far more hated species out there. You can tell because they play evil characters in kid's cartoons. Rats, weasels, coyotes... As for insults, well b**ch is a big one but people LOVE dogs.

    • @lightlingzooma-69
      @lightlingzooma-69 Год назад +4

      FR! everyone says they’re cute

  • @anson7064
    @anson7064 Год назад +2284

    Wow.. I never even knew koalas were hated..
    Edit: 1.8k likes, 60 replies, overrated comment.

  • @Avendesora
    @Avendesora Год назад +419

    Pullin' the "but they think pandas are cute!" like they don't have their own koala-style hate club lol

    • @davidshi451
      @davidshi451 Год назад +28

      Lmao pandas need their own defense video

    • @BrightEyes83
      @BrightEyes83 Год назад +54

      i'm in the panda hate club

    • @MissThavel_LanguageTeacher10
      @MissThavel_LanguageTeacher10 Год назад +15

      @@davidshi451 a RUclipsr named casual Geographics already has made one

    • @PopeGoliath
      @PopeGoliath Год назад +1

      @@BrightEyes83 Comrade!

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson Год назад +39

      ​@@BrightEyes83I don't hate pandas at all, but I'm in the "They really do cost excessively more to conserve than almost any other animal and contribute minimally to their environment _and_ have a hard time surviving in the wild under optimal conditions, so maybe we should reallocate those funds to keystone species and just focus on conserving pandas in zoos."

  • @JosephsDesign
    @JosephsDesign Год назад +278

    I see koalas and pandas in the same boat. Both cute, and both unable to survive in a world altered and degraded by humans. They are really cute and I always love petting them in the zoo in Australia.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot Год назад +15

      Wait, *which* zoo lets pet koalas??

    • @fish4225
      @fish4225 Год назад +25

      yeah, they're both equally crap genetic lines

    • @JosephsDesign
      @JosephsDesign Год назад +16

      @@anonymouscausewhynot The Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney has a thing where you can buy a ticket and the zookeepers take photos of you holding different animals like koalas, crocodiles, and pythons. It costs a bit, but this money supports the animals and it was really incredible experience.

    • @timy.9512
      @timy.9512 Год назад +7

      Koalas have actually proven themselves able to survive in an Anthropocene world - even indigenous tales center around them being extremely hard to kill, whether by drought or hunters. Plus they’ve even managed to recolonize much of their former range, even entering Adelaide - which they previously weren’t even native to.

    • @MossmanJoeX2
      @MossmanJoeX2 Год назад +17

      ​@@fish4225Oh wow! I never thought I'd see a fish making bait!

  • @kuronosan
    @kuronosan Год назад +161

    Was waiting for koala human chlamydia transmission to come up, guess that one's 100% spot on.

    • @noytelinu
      @noytelinu Год назад +26

      Yeah. This video is biased

    • @SireRose
      @SireRose Год назад +4

      ​@@noytelinuelaborate

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 Год назад +7

      @@SireRose even mythbusters had myths they confirmed

    • @just_a_guy9688
      @just_a_guy9688 8 месяцев назад

      Well, koalas have chlamydia in the first place is because they came into contact with sheep and cattle feces, which were brought in by guess who? Humans.

  • @Magmafrost13
    @Magmafrost13 Год назад +85

    Could do a whole series of "the internet hates this animal for entirely incorrect reasons" honestly. Sunfish are another particularly bad case

    • @Lumberjack_king
      @Lumberjack_king 4 месяца назад +4

      Sun fish are parisite plates for birds

    • @wulfricstewart
      @wulfricstewart 2 месяца назад

      They are floating buffeys

    • @jacksborns3414
      @jacksborns3414 2 месяца назад

      Sunfish suck, only good thing about them is their size

  • @Ninjaeule97
    @Ninjaeule97 Год назад +137

    Considering poop transplants are a thing, Koalas shouldn't be vilified for that behavior.

    • @ToadRoach
      @ToadRoach 4 месяца назад

      I would go even further, and ask the question: Show me a live birth animal that doesn't consume its mother's poop in some way?

    • @EmiWi
      @EmiWi 2 месяца назад

      @@ToadRoach What do you mean by this?

    • @ToadRoach
      @ToadRoach 2 месяца назад

      @@EmiWi Have you ever wondered why it is an evolutionally advantage to have the poop shoot and the birth canal so close together.

  • @davideostudio2664
    @davideostudio2664 Год назад +29

    Koalas get that much hatred?! Try holding one like I got to when I visited Australia, they’re SO FLUFFY!!!

    • @oxenford539
      @oxenford539 Год назад +1

      they're highly likely to urinate if you hold them. which is bad because they have chlamydia.

    • @user-lr8ow2jg4e
      @user-lr8ow2jg4e Год назад

      and weak

    • @Codename_WonderPV
      @Codename_WonderPV 2 месяца назад

      I think elephants are cooler (second favorite animal, first is literally any house cat) but i think a fluffy koala would be cool to hold for a short period of time

  • @Mike_Hoffmann
    @Mike_Hoffmann Год назад +35

    Koalas are great, it's the drop bears that give them a bad wrap 😂

  • @Haze01Smash
    @Haze01Smash Год назад +110

    I was expecting to hear more about the danger Australia's drop bears pose to humans.

    • @girtbysea7831
      @girtbysea7831 Год назад +11

      So true. Visitors to Australia really need to be warned about them.

    • @Tinkbook
      @Tinkbook Год назад +7

      It's so dangerous, the number of injured tourists each year is getting worse.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 Год назад +4

      Different species. Koalas are herbivores.

    • @Aru_im
      @Aru_im Год назад +4

      I wonder why a lot of tourists gets injured by them, do you usually see them in the city?

    • @丫o
      @丫o 9 месяцев назад +2

      The North American Jackalope puts the drop bear to utter shame

  • @CrushedAria
    @CrushedAria Год назад +28

    Please reconsider your BetterHelp sponsorship.

  • @Titanic-wo6bq
    @Titanic-wo6bq Год назад +116

    I didn't know that Koalas were hated; but this is the internet so I'm not sure what I was expecting.

    • @whazzup_teacup
      @whazzup_teacup Год назад +25

      Mocking is a better term than hating. People love koalas but they also love laughing at how bad they seem to be at existing as a species.

    • @jasondoe2596
      @jasondoe2596 Год назад +3

      There's a pretty well-known copypasta that claims they utterly suck and gives a long list of "reasons" (most of which were mentioned in the video). It's pretty amusing should you come across it, but it's not some peer-reviewed article or anything...

    • @N12015
      @N12015 Год назад +1

      @@whazzup_teacup Just like how Sloths are so awful as species that they were never worth hunting by humans and are used to train young raptors.

    • @Bejeodiehrubridjehfoekdjriwknr
      @Bejeodiehrubridjehfoekdjriwknr 6 месяцев назад +2

      ⁠depending on where it's coming from it potentially isn't even mocking so much a sense of humour that is lost on Americans. We tend to take the piss out of things we love the most in Australia and I think this could be lost on Americans, especially if they are reading it through text.

  • @indigofenix00
    @indigofenix00 Год назад +41

    It's always annoying when an animal develops a hate culture because of some meme slandering them, especially when the reason for the slander is something as arbitrary as "they don't move much" or "they are struggling with invasive diseases and habitat destruction" as if that's THEIR fault. True, to live off eucalyptus koalas have to be hyperspecialists, but given how absurdly prolific eucalyptus is and how little competition they get, it's a solid niche to specialize in.

    • @user-lr8ow2jg4e
      @user-lr8ow2jg4e Год назад

      Yea it's completely their fault that they SUCK

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Год назад +148

    I'm glad you brought that up about small brains, because birds are very much intelligent creatures! Especially crows and ravens. People really underestimate the intelligence of crows and ravens. Crows are among some of the most intelligent creatures on our planet (birds in general are; which is why it doesn't make sense bird brain is still used as an insult). Scientists did a study and have discovered they remember your face, they talk about you to other crows, they remember what you did, and more crows will attack if they heard you've done something wrong. Yup, they plan for the future too!
    Another creature that gets a lot of hate are roaches because they believe all roaches are pests. There are actually 4,500 species of cockroaches in the world, and out of these 4,500 species, just 30 are considered pests. And there can be some very beautiful and cute roaches you can keep as pets like Simandoa cave roaches, hissing roaches, porcelain roaches, Asian emerald roaches, or domino roaches.

    • @purrrduck
      @purrrduck Год назад +4

      Damn if you hurt a crow you’ll get pecked by many

    • @MGSLurmey
      @MGSLurmey Год назад +8

      BTW the term for the whole group of smart birds that includes crows and ravens (to save time saying both each time you refer to them) is corvids. This group includes crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers - all of which are highly intelligent!

    • @Ildskalli
      @Ildskalli Год назад +1

      I was with you until you mentioned "beautiful" roaches. Erm, no. Beetles can be beautiful, as can be some hymenopterans, praying mantises, and a couple of others... but roaches? No. Hard pass.

    • @raraavis7782
      @raraavis7782 Год назад +2

      Ok, so those emerald roaches really do look pretty 😅.
      I'm from Germany, though, where roaches as pests aren't really a thing. So maybe that's why I don't share the general disgust. They're just random insects to me. Big beetles, basically. I wouldn't have an issue holding one, for example.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Год назад +1

      Bird brained does mean something more like scatter brained rather than just being a synonym for idiot, and it isn't exactly inacurate in that sense since birds are very excitable and hop around. However I also don't understand how being compared to a bird could ever be a bad thing, I mean they are so cute, how could being similar to them not just be an objectively good thing?

  • @John-rl9ue
    @John-rl9ue Год назад +21

    As an Outside player, the reasons us players don't really like koalas is because they are low-tier builds.

    • @N12015
      @N12015 11 месяцев назад +4

      Low tier? They're BOTTOM tier, almost Sloth-levels of terrible, just like Pandas.

    • @ryane5281
      @ryane5281 5 месяцев назад +1

      True, plus the drop bear build is more fun and a little overtuned. They might need to add more vegemite in the next patch to help balance it.

    • @atreidesson
      @atreidesson 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@N12015oh, so is bottom tier high or mid? Since it's not low by you. Sloths also have good bloodline, I wonder why have they failed so badly.
      I actually noticed now that Tier is literally a beast in German 😮

  • @JaniLaaksonen91
    @JaniLaaksonen91 Год назад +59

    I only heard they're aggressive and might rip your face off with their claws

    • @freazeezy
      @freazeezy Год назад +12

      That's the koalas cousin the drop bear. Easy mistake to make and one that claims the lives of hundreds of tourists each year.

    • @davidegaruti2582
      @davidegaruti2582 Год назад +2

      I mean most animals are to be fair

    • @Jake12220
      @Jake12220 Год назад +9

      ​@@freazeezyno he was right, a wild koala is likely to rip huge gashes in you if you try to pick it up. Drop bears are like a cross between a koala and a polar bear, there normally isn't much left after they get done with anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path.

  • @adpirtle
    @adpirtle Год назад +27

    Koala hate is news to me. I thought everyone agreed they were just adorable.

    • @lmaobox4068
      @lmaobox4068 Год назад

      Everyone with smooth brains like the koala sure will sympathize with koalas

  • @Cyberlisk
    @Cyberlisk Год назад +35

    To be fair, I think "hate" is the wrong word, they are pitied as "weak animals", just like Sloths (and actually Pandas as well to a certain degree). Most people do in fact think Koalas are cute.

    • @motile_automaton
      @motile_automaton Год назад +2

      No, hate is the perfect word.

    • @N12015
      @N12015 11 месяцев назад

      The term indeed is not hate, is mockery... And they deserve it. They're dumb, are sleeping 90% of their life, oftentimes kills one of their twins (like Pandas) and have an awful diet.

    • @GalootWrangler
      @GalootWrangler 8 месяцев назад +3

      KOALA: Woe is us.
      SLOTH: You think you’ve got it rough! They named us after a deadly sin, or vice versa.

    • @iamerror1699
      @iamerror1699 4 месяца назад

      You don't get clicks that way.

  • @00Linares00
    @00Linares00 Год назад +15

    tbf, people stopped sharing the copypasta on reddit after the bushfire that wiped a lot of them out

  • @angelicagaldos
    @angelicagaldos Год назад +18

    I love koalas. I have never heard anyone saying bad things about them till now

  • @-Bill.
    @-Bill. Год назад +9

    The poop eating thing becomes a funny plot point in the under-appreciated anime - "Seton Academy - Join the Pack" It's full of great animal info!

  • @Fiskene
    @Fiskene 4 месяца назад +4

    I actually think the "faecal pap" thing is quite ingenious. The natural world never stops impressing me, but I love how Koalas have evolved to instinctively learn this vital behaviour. And, I mean, it might sound gross to us, but Koalas are only processing plants through their body, and I'm somewhat confident that their tastebuds have evolved to identify these compounds as pleasant rather than foul.

  • @Ornzora
    @Ornzora Год назад +13

    Human : Koala are so stupid !
    Koala : Dude, you're the smartest animal around yet you poop on your own clean water supply for a long time

    • @atreidesson
      @atreidesson 4 месяца назад

      oh, obviously, just quit pooping! How couldn't we see?

  • @AeAeRon
    @AeAeRon Год назад +6

    You didn't address the incredibly obnoxious sounds they make. I used to think they are very cute until I saw a video of them yelling

  • @zekegameing4956
    @zekegameing4956 Год назад +922

    WHO'S OUT THERE HATEING koalas 😡?

    • @wolveswordlupus
      @wolveswordlupus Год назад +54

      Casual geographic

    • @xBlackShadowsZz
      @xBlackShadowsZz Год назад +27

      No one, they just want viewers

    • @DOSFS
      @DOSFS Год назад +20

      More like make fun of, but I get their point. It is misconception.

    • @Colonies_Dev
      @Colonies_Dev Год назад +9

      @@wolveswordlupus 😂😂 i follow him

    • @bloom4047
      @bloom4047 Год назад +34

      ME 😡💥💯⁉️🔥

  • @AthAthanasius
    @AthAthanasius Год назад +6

    Are RUclips creators just choosing to ignore the issues that came to light over BetterHelp's handling of patient data ? You know, selling it off at any opportunity in order to make more money ? Please stop taking sponsorships from them!

  • @readjordan2257
    @readjordan2257 Год назад +7

    I literally work for a school with a koala as the mascot. This is definitely not a worldwide sentiment.

  • @babilon6097
    @babilon6097 Год назад +20

    Smooth talk on behalf of smooth brain.
    Sorry. Can't think of a joke about koalescing.

  • @oneguyonascooter9278
    @oneguyonascooter9278 Год назад +4

    Title: "Why Do People Hate Koalas?"
    Me: "People hate koalas?"

    • @edopronk1303
      @edopronk1303 2 месяца назад

      Indeed.
      And half the comments do the same.
      So I think Minutearth is in some weird koala hate bubble.

  • @besmart
    @besmart Год назад +42

    I don't like koalas but it's because their noses are creepy and I can't look at their faces without staring in horror at that tubular thing that looks like a black slug crawling out of their skull. Go stare at a koala picture and you'll agree with me, I guarantee, pure horrorshow

    • @ItsDeveloper_
      @ItsDeveloper_ Год назад

      :/

    • @Mark_badas
      @Mark_badas Год назад +8

      Why did you do this to me.😢😢

    • @davidshi451
      @davidshi451 Год назад +3

      lmao I was not expecting this hot take, especially from you!

    • @DefnitelyNotFred
      @DefnitelyNotFred Год назад +1

      Ohhh I like them, makes them look like tiny baby elephants with micro trunks 🤗

    • @tbird81
      @tbird81 Год назад +1

      Used to love koalas, now I want them extinct.

  • @weallstilldie
    @weallstilldie Год назад +2

    I think the koalas’ flaws like chlamydia and eating a low nutrient toxic leaf as its only source of flaws are reasons for humans to hold off on expenses in helping the species, as natural selection is as natural as it gets. However, massive fires that are caused by human emissions and kill WAY too many koalas should be taken accounted for and is a good reason for us to help koalas. However, you can’t sit there eating poisonous leaves, unable to use much energy because digesting such leaves uses so much of it, and ask me to put thousands of dollars to help you. At that point, I just have to wonder why they evolved this way.

  • @Angelwitch99
    @Angelwitch99 Год назад +7

    I had heard some of these thing about Kaolas but even still I have always loved them and I am happy to learn that these things actually aren't as bad as the internet makes them seem and that Kaolas actually deserves more credit than they've been given

    • @qlx-i
      @qlx-i 10 месяцев назад

      ... You spelled it wrong

  • @coptotermes
    @coptotermes 2 месяца назад +1

    "Flea ridden, stinking, piddling creatures." Quote from an Aussie newspaper comic from many years ago. LOL

  • @sameer1321
    @sameer1321 Год назад +44

    The collab we never expected, but the one we needed!

  • @dukelornek
    @dukelornek Год назад +4

    I realy love content like this that better enlighten our understanding rather then just appeal to our affect.

  • @PlacestobeVG
    @PlacestobeVG Год назад +5

    I think it's because Koalas are also Chlamydia bears

  • @petermanou9083
    @petermanou9083 Год назад +27

    You missed the main criticism. From my experience, the main reason people hate koalas is that we spend so much money keeping them from going extinct when there are other animals that actually should get the money because they are more crucial to there respective environments.

    • @TessaBain
      @TessaBain Год назад +10

      Meanwhile, in reality, they're not trying to save them at all and are destroying their habitats.
      Should probably look up friendlyjordies if you think anyone in power is actually trying to save them instead of just making their corporate owners and, in turn, their own bank accounts, happy.

    • @petermanou9083
      @petermanou9083 Год назад

      @@TessaBain Who cares about "people in power"? My point is that money is donated by individuals for animal conservation, and it is then spent by organizations on koalas instead of animals more important to their local ecosystems. At no point did I mention any governments, or billionaires, or anyone else that could be considered "in power." I just said that, compared to many other animals at risk of extinction, koalas are a waste of money.

    • @ARandomGuy24
      @ARandomGuy24 Год назад +3

      They live perfectly fine in gumtrees. All we have to do to not let them go extinct is not cut down their special trees. It isn't hard.

    • @petermanou9083
      @petermanou9083 Год назад +2

      @@ARandomGuy24 Sure, they live fine in gumtrees, until the gumtrees are on fire. Australia burns very frequently, and when it does, millions get spent on koalas. I'm not saying I'm in favor of koala extinction, but they don't help the local ecosystem and that money can go to animals that do. I'm just saying, koala extinction won't have a huge ramification on the local environment, but there could very will be ecosystem collapses if Dingoes or Woylies go extinct.

    • @ARandomGuy24
      @ARandomGuy24 Год назад +2

      @@petermanou9083 They wouldn't have so little that they need to be saved from being burned if so many of their trees weren't already cut down/continuing to be cut down.
      Fires were burning those trees for tens of thousands of years. They'll grow back quickly. It would fine if the sample size of tries wasn't so tiny and continuing to shrink through non fire related "urban development."

  • @TheRealBatabii
    @TheRealBatabii Год назад +4

    "why do people hate koalas?"
    Man why can't you guys make up your minds on titles?

    • @TheRealBatabii
      @TheRealBatabii Год назад +3

      Now you changed it AGAIN, from "Why the Internet is Wrong About Koalas" to "Koalas Don't Deserve This"

    • @TheRealBatabii
      @TheRealBatabii Год назад +2

      And now you changed it back to the first way. What the hell.

  • @raraavis7782
    @raraavis7782 Год назад +2

    Really? Hated? I never knew that.
    I rather thought, they were the kind of animal that everyone goes all warm and fuzzy over (because they're 'cute'), even though there's nothing all that special about it. I mean, they're special as in unusual, for sure. But it's not like they're some kind of keystone species or something. If they die out...well. It's not a huge tragedy. They're just other animals, that are far more important.

  • @exploshaun
    @exploshaun Год назад +10

    Hey, the internet have basically the same criticism for pandas too.
    Bear shape animals exclusively eating nutritionally poor leaves leaving both species endangered when humans invaded their land.

  • @TheFanatical1
    @TheFanatical1 Год назад +3

    The thing is, you say all of these things about the brain and then you point out that birds and other smooth-brained creatures can be very smart. But Koalas aren't smart. They're very dumb. That isn't any less true because they have a smooth brain, the smooth brain is what people use to indicate how dumb they are. It might be unrelated, but pointing out actually smart animals that have a different brain structure (and don't even live in the same family) doesn't really help the fact that anyone who has seen a Koala knows it is stupid. When people point out that a Koala has to spend an inordinate amount of effort digesting what is essentially a toxic substance that gives them no real energy (meaning they have to sit around all day and have no evolutionary pressure to do anything but sit around all day), that's a good indication that they're evolutionarily over-specialised. I mean, you can't really *be* over-specialised, but evolutionary specialisation doesn't encourage intelligence because that's almost the the opposite of what a generalist means in an evolutionary context.

    • @N12015
      @N12015 Год назад +2

      And considering brains waste a lot of power and Koalas have an almost calory-free diet, that means brain neurosis is not a priority.

    • @TheFanatical1
      @TheFanatical1 Год назад +1

      @@N12015 Indeed.

  • @DeRien8
    @DeRien8 Год назад +3

    Not to mention adult rabbits eat their own feces in a specialized cycle to finish digesting. Gorillas too, but less specialized. Herbivory is hard when you don't have a huge digestive system that ferments well.

  • @trinefanmel
    @trinefanmel Год назад +2

    Finally some love! I'd argue that all the hate/indifference is part of the reason koalas are endangered and very few people actually care...

  • @this_is_patrick
    @this_is_patrick Год назад +5

    I've never seen anyone _hate_ hate them. They fill in the "cute but dumb" niche on the internet; naturally, everyone makes fun of them for being cute but dumb.

  • @mistyblooming
    @mistyblooming Год назад +2

    Whoever voiced the koala has beautiful voice!! Can't stop listening to it..

    • @Andy_M986
      @Andy_M986 Год назад +3

      Tibees,she has her own RUclips channel.

  • @jdsonical
    @jdsonical Год назад +4

    we need a video about the sunfish next

  • @geeksdo1tbetter
    @geeksdo1tbetter 2 дня назад

    0:54 wittle mouse enjoying a sunbeam. Best example of smart!

  • @mytube001
    @mytube001 Год назад +30

    How can anyone hate a koala? They're super cute!

  • @shlingusdingus4174
    @shlingusdingus4174 Год назад +1

    I would still argue, as with any wild animal, that they're not cuddly. They scratch, bite, and scream, and they evolved specifically to be simple creatures due to their nutrient-poor diets. This isn't their fault by any means, but not exactly my idea of a nice animal.

  • @HipsterShiningArmor
    @HipsterShiningArmor 7 месяцев назад +7

    I didn’t even know the internet hated koalas. I thought it was dolphins that the internet really hated

    • @cutepuddleslime8201
      @cutepuddleslime8201 6 месяцев назад

      I never agreed entirely with the Dolphin hate, sure they may show more of an aggressive intelligence than most animals but all animals are menaces to an extent. Dolphins are wild animals who just so happen to have a brain structure kind of like a human, so lumping them in as monsters is a bit unfair. Generally, all wild animals are feisty.

  • @PbandJellystone
    @PbandJellystone 5 дней назад +1

    I’ll make you like koalas more by the fact that koala mom’s don’t sacrifice their babies like other marsupials, instead she will try to protect herself and her baby with those claws and teeth

  • @bilgemilk1440
    @bilgemilk1440 Год назад +15

    Great video! I was really hoping you were going to cover Koala Chlamydia because I really don't know if it's true or not that almost all Koalas have STD's

    • @Jake12220
      @Jake12220 Год назад +2

      Yep they almost all do, but if you want something really disturbing to look up, check out the mating behaviour of ducks.

  • @kennethmoses4900
    @kennethmoses4900 Год назад +2

    No Yank nor perfidious Albionite may slander our furry friends. The Koala is a national treasure! 🐨🇦🇺😤

  • @DukeBG
    @DukeBG Год назад +5

    This video felt like full of straw-man arguments. People don't "hate" hate koalas, they just think they're a dumb barely functional animal that only managed to not go extinct by not really having predators. Only eating eucalyptus, which isn't even really nutritious, so they have to have overly long and complicated digestive tract, not do anything through the day but eat the barely fulfilling eucalyptus and sleep. Which doesn't really make them evolve their brain. So as a species capabilities go, they don't earn much respect.

  • @TheLobsterCopter5000
    @TheLobsterCopter5000 7 месяцев назад +1

    I think most people just think Koalas are weird/funny. The closely related Drop Bear is the more vilified species.

  • @warriorson7979
    @warriorson7979 Год назад +3

    Because they have Clamydia...😒

  • @TheWorldsLargestOven
    @TheWorldsLargestOven Год назад +1

    I see a lot of "not so fun facts about animals" shorts saying all of this myths about koalas.

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson Год назад +3

    I do notice you opted to not speak about Chlamydia...

  • @blargl121
    @blargl121 Год назад +2

    I thought you'd mention the chlamydia stuff I keep hearing about them

  • @KahruSuomiPerkele
    @KahruSuomiPerkele Год назад +6

    4:15 don't get me wrong, pandas are cute, but they deserve as much hate as koalas for being such weird animals.

  • @qwertyTRiG
    @qwertyTRiG Год назад +2

    Pleased to recognise Toby's voice before I saw the attribution.

  • @ncarter7999
    @ncarter7999 Год назад +5

    All I got from this 5 minute long video is confirmation that all of the koala myths are basically true. Not sure what the point was.
    I'm also sad that they didn't talk about koala syphilis.

  • @charlesajones77
    @charlesajones77 11 месяцев назад +1

    "The universe is balanced on the back of a giant koala. WHY IS HE SMILING?"

  • @edoardocastelnovi7154
    @edoardocastelnovi7154 Год назад +3

    These fluffy modaf***ers have the exact same problem of pandas and frankly all other cute balls: they completely overshadow EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY ELSE, which Always means people get absolutely obsessed by them and do not pay attention to all the other (and usually way more ecologically precious) living beings on Earth. That Is the REAL koala issue

  • @neacgi
    @neacgi Год назад +1

    KOALAS IN THE RAIN 🎶 NO FUCKS GIVEN!

  • @ac.creations
    @ac.creations Год назад +4

    Chlamydia.

  • @10to1imjokin
    @10to1imjokin Год назад +2

    I believe rabbits also produce two different types of poop pellets, one of which they eat again, for the added nutrients.

  • @alexisevrard8293
    @alexisevrard8293 Год назад +5

    Funny: in France where I live, koala is considered cute fluffy plush. Everybody here would like to cuddle a koala. Keep it up, koalas!

  • @Arcterion
    @Arcterion Год назад +2

    What about half the koala population having chlamydia though?

  • @rangertalksdogsgames7996
    @rangertalksdogsgames7996 Год назад +4

    4:09 the argument here is they don't NEED to eat their parents poop. They can still technically eat and digest on their own, but Koalas HAVE to get the bacteria from their mother, otherwise they'll starve on an full stomach because they can't break down the leaves

    • @matiassu5604
      @matiassu5604 Год назад +1

      So they do need them then? That's like saying you don't need brakes to drive, you'll go from A to B just fine, but will die on impact.

    • @rangertalksdogsgames7996
      @rangertalksdogsgames7996 Год назад

      @matiassu5604 what I'm saying is to get the bacteria needed to digest food, Koalas HAVE to eat their mothers poop, otherwise they have NO WAY of getting the bacteria to digest the one thing they will eat, so they will starve
      Other animals CAN digest their food without needing to eat their mothers poop.
      While they may, they don't need to like koalas

    • @PizzaRocks
      @PizzaRocks Год назад

      microbes can be cultured (domesticated) in a lab, so technically, yes, you're right! People just don't want to admit that there are more humane ways to colonize the gastrointestinal tract of koalas and other animals in captivity, and it's much safer, as it will lower the risk of contracting pathogenic strains of E. Coli and bertiella obesa (koala tapeworm) In the wild, I'm not sure if there is a way out of this, but I'm determined to think if you were to try to make it easier for wild specimens to access beneficial microbes, is to transabdominally inject a wild female koala's uterus with cultured organisms to ensure the fetus will get colonized with the microbes before birth so they would no longer need "pap"

  • @lasercraft32
    @lasercraft32 4 месяца назад +1

    This sounds like the age old situation of scientist being like "hey we just learned that these animals do this thing for this reason" and the news/social media being like "WHAT? Scientists discovered this animal does this thing!" and oversimplifies it and leaves out the entirety of its context.

  • @BoyProdigyX
    @BoyProdigyX Год назад +3

    Aww, I love you *KOALAS!!* 🐨💚

  • @TetraSky
    @TetraSky Год назад +1

    koalas are basically like pandas in that aspect, eating "food" that's not nutritious at all.

  • @CheepGuava
    @CheepGuava Год назад +6

    I know you gotta get sponsor money from somewhere but I gotta ask about the ethics of a science education channel getting sponsorship from what appears to be a very sketchy tech startup “disrupting” mental health care by…getting fined by the FTC for user privacy violations? BetterHelp has claimed they are not bound by HIPPA rules, which is a huge problem for anyone seeking mental health services from them.

  • @MooseBoys42
    @MooseBoys42 Год назад +1

    > If you're struggling with depression, fun science facts might not be the best solution.
    WELL SHIT

  • @PlagueOfGripes
    @PlagueOfGripes Год назад +5

    I think the video is being more disenguous than the purported straw men. None of the points were false, just potentially unsubstantiated to some minor degree. Or they *were* completely true.

  • @estebson
    @estebson Год назад +2

    4:15 Meanwhile the internet wanting pandas to go extinct 😶

  • @MrT_Rex
    @MrT_Rex 11 месяцев назад +4

    Like koalas or die

    • @Meditroit
      @Meditroit 4 месяца назад

      Don’t feel like it

  • @Gunter4life
    @Gunter4life 5 дней назад

    MinuteEarth actually made a video debunking these facts! I reccomend it!

  • @xeladas
    @xeladas Год назад +6

    Wait, betterhelp? wasn't there a massive set of scandals a few years ago about them? I'm not mixing them up with a different company that also does the whole online therapy thing? Like, I get maybe not spending 100 hours looking into everything about a company before you take money to promote them, but from a company that has a track record as bad as them (again, assuming I'm not mixing them up with someone else) it paints a very negative view of you guys, what's next? Raid Shadow Legends? Cash 4 Titles Scams? NFTS?

  • @MeepMeep88
    @MeepMeep88 3 месяца назад +1

    Lol I had to do a report on Koalas as an endangered species for school back in like 3rd grade or something..
    They have STDS hahaha

  • @shorpee4165
    @shorpee4165 Год назад +5

    Love how the koala has an Aussie accent

    • @BlackGateofMordor
      @BlackGateofMordor Год назад +1

      Kiwi accent.

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 Год назад

      ​@@BlackGateofMordor Vowels don't sound right for a Kiwi accent, though I could be wrong.

    • @evilgeniusha01
      @evilgeniusha01 Год назад +3

      ​@@Croz89Toby is a New Zealand native who currently lives in Australia so her accent is probably somewhere in between.

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 Год назад

      @@evilgeniusha01 Yeah, that would make sense. The way she said the i in "think" sounded pretty Australian, in NZ it sounds more like "thunk" especially in the strongest accents.

  • @RainAngel111
    @RainAngel111 Месяц назад

    Teasing koalas for their weird features is just how we show our love. Can't believe you'd make it seem like the internet hates koalas

  • @TojiFushigoroWasTaken
    @TojiFushigoroWasTaken Год назад +4

    Fun fact: Pandas have the most number of naturally birthed twins....but only of the twin usually survives....because the mother fing forgets she had twins and one of them usually starves to death. Like even when she has more than enough resources or in a fing zoo where there are people taking of her 24/7 she does this

  • @ApotheosisStone
    @ApotheosisStone Год назад +1

    most of what I've heard was not even addressed. The whole violent unpredictable version I'm sure is just Dropbear folklore and the problem with survivability due to poor diet, similar to Panda, making them a species not worth saving.

  • @sarahjberman
    @sarahjberman Год назад +6

    We ❤️ Koalas and Tibees!!

  • @carlramirez6339
    @carlramirez6339 5 месяцев назад +1

    In other words, these memes are the result of smoothbrain humans, not smoothbrain koalas.

  • @nileshkumaraswamy2711
    @nileshkumaraswamy2711 Год назад +3

    ‘Sleepy, slow and a bit weird’ sounds like me fr.

  • @cryptidgaming8697
    @cryptidgaming8697 22 дня назад +1

    I think Koalas are one the cutest animals in Australia

  • @Dronebertios_World
    @Dronebertios_World Год назад +3

    Better help is a terrible company and you really ought to reevaluate your relationship with them.

  • @selfar9399
    @selfar9399 Год назад +2

    Why do they chose eucalyptus leaves as their food source? It basically gives nothing in terms of energy and advantages! Your video have some info that is true but I still kinda don't like the koalas.

  • @cancan-wq9un
    @cancan-wq9un Год назад +5

    I doubt most of the stuff here are meant literally. Like "small brain" thing, it is based on observed behavior, which is far from most mammal behavior. Not every single evolutionary path requires to "advance" the species to ensure survival. Pandas are another example to this, they still exist only because humans want them to, due to their bias towards cute animals. If you are not, you are a goner even if that means the collapse of the ecosystem.

  • @ryandoesstuffapparently1540
    @ryandoesstuffapparently1540 Год назад +2

    One word: Chlamydia

  • @Owen_loves_Butters
    @Owen_loves_Butters Год назад +5

    2:17 That is a good point, but it's also a question of circumstance. Sure, if the leaves are plentiful, it makes sense to only go for the best ones. But if they're scarce, wouldn't any sustenance be better than none? (Maybe they would burn more calories eating and digesting the fallen leaves than they would gain?) Just a curious viewer, not a koala hater.

    • @thelastfruitcake
      @thelastfruitcake Год назад +1

      digestion takes a lot of energy, so it might not be worth it to eat sub-par food when you're starving. For example, people lose calories from eating celery, so eating celery when you're starving might not be the best option. (idk what actually would be the best option in that case since I'm not an expert).

    • @Owen_loves_Butters
      @Owen_loves_Butters Год назад

      @@thelastfruitcake I mean, I pointed out that possibility in my comment

    • @thelastfruitcake
      @thelastfruitcake Год назад

      @Owen_loves_Butters yeah, i was confirming what i know about the topic. sorry if my wording wasn't good

  • @triadwarfare
    @triadwarfare Год назад +1

    4:08 pretty sure pandas do get hate for being evolutionarily regressed they are just like koalas

  • @corporateturtle6005
    @corporateturtle6005 Год назад +3

    Love how they never mentioned how 80% of koalas have klamydia.. lol

    • @mandymom2800
      @mandymom2800 Год назад +3

      Dogs have contagious venereal cancer which is worse imo

  • @jjuniper479
    @jjuniper479 2 месяца назад

    omg that animated sad koala with tears in its eyes voiced by a nice australian lady might be the saddest thing i've seen all week 😭 poor koala 🤧🐨💗