The fires are dreadful up there (I say up because it is, relatively). Nightmarish stuff. Koalas … ah, they might not be cuddly (those claws) and are the ass end of evolution, and … a lot of them are infected with devastating chlamydia, so rampant some say they ought to be culled back. The fires are one more thing link to chlamydia piece (I know right, lovely reading over a cup of coffee or a beer). Oh and this is how they sound… so cute :u lol link Still, I think most of us want them to make it. If the fires and people rescuing them helps raise awareness and from that stuff changes, then that’s something.

Lighter piece, still sciencefact:

“If you gather a bunch of Eucalyptus leaves, which the koalas eat, and put them on a plate in front of the koala, the koala won’t know what to do with them; they just sit there and gawk at it.

They lack the ability to discern that it’s still food given that the leaves have moved off the tree and onto a new source that they’re unfamiliar with.

Another fun byproduct of their smooth brain is that koalas don’t really seem to understand what rain is. They will just sit in that rain wondering why they get wet until the rain passes.”
few more funfacts here link