A bit out of sequence but I just saw this picture today:
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The male koala wanted to mate with Toby's mother. If she did and conceived a joey (initially the size of a jellybean in her pouch) that would be incentive to abandon Toby. That's why males try to separate females from their joeys.
However, females do have some leverage in the mating process. I saw a little video on a male koala very gingerly tiptoeing toward a female koala who was trying to drive him away with these rather horrible koala screeches. She may have had a tiny (jellybean-sized) just-conceived joey in her pouch.
Male koalas also screech when they feel under threat. These screeches are sometimes recorded and it is really incongruous to hear such fluffy teddy-bear types making that kind of racket. But I guess that noise help koalas defend themselves.
However, females do have some leverage in the mating process. I saw a little video on a male koala very gingerly tiptoeing toward a female koala who was trying to drive him away with these rather horrible koala screeches. She may have had a tiny (jellybean-sized) just-conceived joey in her pouch.
Male koalas also screech when they feel under threat. These screeches are sometimes recorded and it is really incongruous to hear such fluffy teddy-bear types making that kind of racket. But I guess that noise help koalas defend themselves.
Getting the laundry basket scene is critical in the video I just posted (it comes up quickly). It is so precious. And that baby koala is just so darn adorable.
This plucky koala shimmied up the wall of the Lighthouse Tower, the tallest lighthouse in New South Wales. I guess word had gotten around in the koala community that the lighthouse had been scaled by only by occasional "madmen" and snakes, leaving the field open to a koala challenger. Returning from a leisurely nighttime swim, the lighthouse keeper saw it perched on the tower. The keeper expected it to fall but when he heard a ruckus in the lantern room, he ran up the staircase to the room and grabbed the koala with both hands.
The lighthouse keeper admitted that he though "both our hearts were beating when he grabbed the koala. He later released the animal in a nearby field. The keeper's huge grin came from realizing that the koala challenge was a fine example of the lighthouse motto, "expect the unexpected.'
In a food coma right now.
Made Belgian Beef Carbonnade with spaetzle (sp?) with sautéed apples washed down with the Leffe beer that I made the stew with—yum!!!
Made Belgian Beef Carbonnade with spaetzle (sp?) with sautéed apples washed down with the Leffe beer that I made the stew with—yum!!!
