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Fabfashion said:
Oh…that sounds pretty gruesome. I googled up hippos and came across some scary and unsettling news about how some bull hippos would hurt/kill baby hippos because they’re very territorial. I wonder if the Tiffany hippo brooch is supposed to depict a baby hippo since they don’t seem to have a big jaw yet?
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Killing the offspring of a mother frees up the mother to mate with the animal who knocked off her baby. I don't know if I'd call it a form of natural selection, but male koalas will knock the joey off it's mothers' back. Joey gets disoriented but if it's lucky animal rescue will scoop it up, give them great leaf, a massage (koalas love massages), a little bed with a blanket so the joey is tucked in properly, etc. The joey will have lost its mother but it's my understanding that older joeys are put in with others of the same age and they play, hang out, it's companionship. Koalas do make friends with other young koalas.

Sometimes a underdeveloped joey (one that cannot survive out of the pouch b/c it's organs are not fully developed) falls out of mum's pouch while the male is insisting on the female's attention. Sometimes a female koala from the rescue organization will appropriate the joey and that saves its life.

I know what HS has a peacock but I'm blanking on the name for the time being.
 
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These designs are so pretty! Thanks, @Cookiefiend, @eagle1002us and @scarf1! I’ll have to keep an eye out for them. This made me remember that I have this CSGM with birds—not peacocks though. In my traumatized state from what I’ll now call the Pull Incidents, I completely stopped wearing all H scarves for fear of ruining them. Then the pandemic hit and I was home most days. So look what I found in my closet. This is the first time wearing it (around the house). Can you guess what it is?

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eagle1002us said:
Killing the offspring of a mother frees up the mother to mate with the animal who knocked off her baby. I don't know if I'd call it a form of natural selection, but male koalas will knock the joey off it's mothers' back. Joey gets disoriented but if it's lucky animal rescue will scoop it up, give them great leaf, a massage (koalas love massages), a little bed with a blanket so the joey is tucked in properly, etc. The joey will have lost its mother but it's my understanding that older joeys are put in with others of the same age and they play, hang out, it's companionship. Koalas do make friends with other young koalas.

Sometimes a underdeveloped joey (one that cannot survive out of the pouch b/c it's organs are not fully developed) falls out of mum's pouch while the male is insisting on the female's attention. Sometimes a female koala from the rescue organization will appropriate the joey and that saves its life.

I know what HS has a peacock but I'm blanking on the name for the time being.
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Oh my! These poor Joeys. Not only can they not outrun the fires or lose their habitat due to human development but they also get bullied by grown male koalas or fall off their mum’s pouch. It’s a wonder they have not gone extinct before now. Thank goodness they are still around and there are kind caregivers and organizations to help. That’s so sweet that they can hang out with other koalas their age or have other female koalas to nurture them. Let’s hope they don’t dwindle in numbers like pandas. Do koalas eat anything else other than eucalyptus leaves?
 
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Fabfashion said:
These designs are so pretty! Thanks, @Cookiefiend, @eagle1002us and @scarf1! I’ll have to keep an eye out for them. This made me remember that I have this CSGM with birds—not peacocks though. In my traumatized state from what I’ll now call the Pull Incidents, I completely stopped wearing all H scarves for fear of ruining them. Then the pandemic hit and I was home most days. So look what I found in my closet. This is the first time wearing it (around the house). Can you guess what it is?

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Flamingo Party! :happydance:
 
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Fabfashion said:
Oh my! These poor Joeys. Not only can they not outrun the fires or lose their habitat due to human development but they also get bullied by grown male koalas or fall off their mum’s pouch. It’s a wonder they have not gone extinct before now. Thank goodness they are still around and there are kind caregivers and organizations to help. That’s so sweet that they can hang out with other koalas their age or have other female koalas to nurture them. Let’s hope they don’t dwindle in numbers like pandas. Do koalas eat anything else other than eucalyptus leaves?
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Appreciate very much your empathic statements wrt koalas. :flowers::flowers::flowers: Koalas just eat eucalyptus leaves and on good years with sufficient rainfall, they can get most of their water from the tips of green leaves. Research from the Univ. of Sydney -- if I recall correctly --found that koalas lap rainwater from the irregular peeling bark and peeling of their home trees. And pans of water attached to trees as a water delivery system are always appreciated during dry weather (nighttime videos show them slacking their thirst). Pans of water on the ground may facilitate predators.

Eucalyptus is toxic, the leaf content is poisonous. Koalas require prolonged rest (sleep) to have the energy to digest it. Joeys get the gut bacteria that does this from their mothers. Nobody else eats eucalyptus so koalas have no competition for food. But eucalypt is not a high energy food product (like lettuce leaves for us, but we have salad dressings to compensate. So koalas munch, sleep, much, sleep, thru the night (mostly).

I didn't know that pandas have declined in numbers but it makes sense. Seems like so many species are declining.
 
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Fabfashion said:
Oh…that sounds pretty gruesome. I googled up hippos and came across some scary and unsettling news about how some bull hippos would hurt/kill baby hippos because they’re very territorial. I wonder if the Tiffany hippo brooch is supposed to depict a baby hippo since they don’t seem to have a big jaw yet?
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I forgot to say that hippos mothers were worshiped by the Egyptians b/c they were such good mothers (protective).

I have a children's book called "Big Bully Hippo" where Big Bully tended to eat everyone's picnic lunch.
He was a little bit of a pig. But he changed. And then everyone liked him. The drawings are cute.

Sandra Boynton did a lot of hippo items, books and cards. Among the books is a counting book, "Hippos go berserk" which is on ebay. The drawings are really cute.
"But not the Hippopotamus" is about a shy girl hippo (hiding behind a tree)." And it ends with something like, "But yes! Yes the hippopotamus!"
 
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