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 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.
@@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.
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.
@@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."
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
@@ToadRoachbecause they began as one opening and separated over evolutionary timescales. There’s no fitness advantage to changing the location so it isn’t selected for. Obviously separation of waste and reproductive functions is a fitness advantage to at least some lineages because you don’t have a cloaca.
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.
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
Are UA-cam 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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
@@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 😮
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
@@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 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.
@@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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
@@atreidessonthey only survive because they live in an ecosystem that has no large land predators. Speaking of survival, they’re not doing a great job of that either (although that’s mostly our fault tbf).
@@pat9353 yeah so if somewhere is no predators, one shall go there and easily survive, for his own good. And when someone survives with no predators in sight, it's bad only for the predators! They could've eaten him but never did it. Also notice how no one can prey on civilized humans and that's totally OK
@@pat9353 It payed off. Koalas eat with no competition. Having no predators is just a buff not an insult for prey. They aren't endangered like cheetahs, painted dogs etc.
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.
A brazilian channel named drawn mask BUT JUST IN A VIDEO and the name of the video is:"a história do PIOR animal do PLANETA" i remember the name of the video be the name i just mencioned is not the internet that hates this animal but DRAWN MASK is the one who hate koalas
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
As one of the early internet users promoting anti-koala sentiment I appreciate this video. He didn't mention the koala chlamydia however. They're still vile creatures. Maybe if you saw Gremlins as a child you could appreciate how much we really don't like them, as the likely inspiration for the character model in that film.
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.
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.
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 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
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"
I feel that MinuteEarth are the only people with the koalifications to talk about this topic. The koalas should feel special as well, as instead of a minute, they got an almost 5 minute, MinuteEarth, video! I like to think of them as nature's pillows.
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.
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).
@@I_am_him_42069 I know that you mean the microbes but still. A lot of successful animals needs support from parents to be successful. Mammals for example.
Totally eucalypt-ic video! Glad I could lend a voice to a friend in need 🐨
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I RECOGNIZED YOUR VOICE INSTANTLY!! OMG such a pleasure to have a tibees cameo
Tibees ur voice best in class
Im here because of you! Great content😊
Same
I surprised you didn't bring up the Chlamydia claims. That's what I was looking most forward to learning about
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
that was the only negative thing I knew about koalas, lol.
a concierge in perth told me about that one
This was just picking the false or half true , they are in fact stupid screaming beast
I assumed that this was going to be the primary reason for the Internet hate, too.
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!
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."
gandalf, the only thing that didn't pass was u
She is a good koala
John Pinette “Where did arugula come from?”
To be equally fair, you’re not a koala, so it follows that you wouldn’t eat eucalyptus leaves.
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.
It’s honestly more of a meme than an actual hate for Koalas
@@Stinkee1129 pretty sure everyone was joking when they said "Koala smooth brain"
@@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.
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.
FR! everyone says they’re cute
Wow.. I never even knew koalas were hated..
Edit: 1.8k likes, 60 replies, overrated comment.
Same. If you ask me they are pretty cute
same
Looks like there's a lot of heat in the wildlife fandom
1word, chlamydia
Perhaps, their fighting calls remind them of demons
Pullin' the "but they think pandas are cute!" like they don't have their own koala-style hate club lol
Lmao pandas need their own defense video
i'm in the panda hate club
@@davidshi451 a UA-camr named casual Geographics already has made one
@@BrightEyes83 Comrade!
@@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."
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.
Wait, *which* zoo lets pet koalas??
yeah, they're both equally crap genetic lines
@@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.
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.
@@fish4225Oh wow! I never thought I'd see a fish making bait!
Was waiting for koala human chlamydia transmission to come up, guess that one's 100% spot on.
Yeah. This video is biased
@@SireRose even mythbusters had myths they confirmed
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.
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.
Damn if you hurt a crow you’ll get pecked by many
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!
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.
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.
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?
Considering poop transplants are a thing, Koalas shouldn't be vilified for that behavior.
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?
@@ToadRoach What do you mean by this?
@@EmiWi Have you ever wondered why it is an evolutionally advantage to have the poop shoot and the birth canal so close together.
@@ToadRoachbecause they began as one opening and separated over evolutionary timescales. There’s no fitness advantage to changing the location so it isn’t selected for. Obviously separation of waste and reproductive functions is a fitness advantage to at least some lineages because you don’t have a cloaca.
@@rogerszmodis No, it's because babies actually get a little bit of the bacteria from that area and it strengthens their immune system.
Koalas are great, it's the drop bears that give them a bad wrap 😂
Could do a whole series of "the internet hates this animal for entirely incorrect reasons" honestly. Sunfish are another particularly bad case
Sun fish are parisite plates for birds
They are floating buffeys
Sunfish suck, only good thing about them is their size
susfish
@@jacksborns3414 yes, like how your life and whole existence suck
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
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.
Yea it's completely their fault that they SUCK
I was expecting to hear more about the danger Australia's drop bears pose to humans.
So true. Visitors to Australia really need to be warned about them.
It's so dangerous, the number of injured tourists each year is getting worse.
Different species. Koalas are herbivores.
I wonder why a lot of tourists gets injured by them, do you usually see them in the city?
The North American Jackalope puts the drop bear to utter shame
tbf, people stopped sharing the copypasta on reddit after the bushfire that wiped a lot of them out
Koalas get that much hatred?! Try holding one like I got to when I visited Australia, they’re SO FLUFFY!!!
they're highly likely to urinate if you hold them. which is bad because they have chlamydia.
and weak
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
Are UA-cam 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!
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.
I didn't know that Koalas were hated; but this is the internet so I'm not sure what I was expecting.
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.
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...
@@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.
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.
I think it's because Koalas are also Chlamydia bears
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.
No, hate is the perfect word.
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.
KOALA: Woe is us.
SLOTH: You think you’ve got it rough! They named us after a deadly sin, or vice versa.
You don't get clicks that way.
I love koalas. I have never heard anyone saying bad things about them till now
As an Outside player, the reasons us players don't really like koalas is because they are low-tier builds.
Low tier? They're BOTTOM tier, almost Sloth-levels of terrible, just like Pandas.
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.
@@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 😮
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I only heard they're aggressive and might rip your face off with their claws
That's the koalas cousin the drop bear. Easy mistake to make and one that claims the lives of hundreds of tourists each year.
I mean most animals are to be fair
@@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.
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!
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
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Why did you do this to me.😢😢
lmao I was not expecting this hot take, especially from you!
Ohhh I like them, makes them look like tiny baby elephants with micro trunks 🤗
Used to love koalas, now I want them extinct.
Smooth talk on behalf of smooth brain.
Sorry. Can't think of a joke about koalescing.
WHO'S OUT THERE HATEING koalas 😡?
Casual geographic
No one, they just want viewers
More like make fun of, but I get their point. It is misconception.
@@wolveswordlupus 😂😂 i follow him
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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.
And considering brains waste a lot of power and Koalas have an almost calory-free diet, that means brain neurosis is not a priority.
@@N12015 Indeed.
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.
The collab we never expected, but the one we needed!
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.
"why do people hate koalas?"
Man why can't you guys make up your minds on titles?
Now you changed it AGAIN, from "Why the Internet is Wrong About Koalas" to "Koalas Don't Deserve This"
And now you changed it back to the first way. What the hell.
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
... You spelled it wrong
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.
Title: "Why Do People Hate Koalas?"
Me: "People hate koalas?"
Indeed.
And half the comments do the same.
So I think Minutearth is in some weird koala hate bubble.
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?
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
@@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."
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.
I do notice you opted to not speak about Chlamydia...
I realy love content like this that better enlighten our understanding rather then just appeal to our affect.
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.
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
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.
I literally work for a school with a koala as the mascot. This is definitely not a worldwide sentiment.
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
oh, obviously, just quit pooping! How couldn't we see?
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
Yep they almost all do, but if you want something really disturbing to look up, check out the mating behaviour of ducks.
dang it! as an INTP, you really got me there! (4:28)
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.
I see a lot of "not so fun facts about animals" shorts saying all of this myths about koalas.
How can anyone hate a koala? They're super cute!
koalas are basically like pandas in that aspect, eating "food" that's not nutritious at all.
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.
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...
But koalas are not endangered
Because they have Clamydia...😒
Actually, i'm hate koala, i feel poor to koala, i'm blaming god, it's okay koala, i'm still love you, whenever happy and sad💜💔🥀.
4:15 don't get me wrong, pandas are cute, but they deserve as much hate as koalas for being such weird animals.
No, they don't
I think most people just think Koalas are weird/funny. The closely related Drop Bear is the more vilified species.
I think koalas are terrible because they adapted to an evolutionary niche that didnt pay off in the slightest.
well they freaking survived, that literally is the only criteria of their niche paying off
@@atreidessonthey only survive because they live in an ecosystem that has no large land predators. Speaking of survival, they’re not doing a great job of that either (although that’s mostly our fault tbf).
@@pat9353 yeah so if somewhere is no predators, one shall go there and easily survive, for his own good. And when someone survives with no predators in sight, it's bad only for the predators! They could've eaten him but never did it.
Also notice how no one can prey on civilized humans and that's totally OK
@@pat9353 It payed off. Koalas eat with no competition. Having no predators is just a buff not an insult for prey. They aren't endangered like cheetahs, painted dogs etc.
Does literally anybody know what this guy is talking about. I feel like he's debunking something that nobody even believed.
I didn’t even know the internet hated koalas. I thought it was dolphins that the internet really hated
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.
Fall bears...
And STDs...
we need a video about the sunfish next
I thought they were hated because they’re very mean.
Funny: in France where I live, koala is considered cute fluffy plush. Everybody here would like to cuddle a koala. Keep it up, koalas!
A brazilian channel named drawn mask BUT JUST IN A VIDEO and the name of the video is:"a história do PIOR animal do PLANETA" i remember the name of the video be the name i just mencioned is not the internet that hates this animal but DRAWN MASK is the one who hate koalas
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
Still sounds like koalas are pretty lame..
Yeah they suck
Better help is a terrible company and you really ought to reevaluate your relationship with them.
So, is the chlamydia thing true?
As one of the early internet users promoting anti-koala sentiment I appreciate this video. He didn't mention the koala chlamydia however.
They're still vile creatures. Maybe if you saw Gremlins as a child you could appreciate how much we really don't like them, as the likely inspiration for the character model in that film.
I love gremlins and their cute huge ears
no mention of chlamydia or what they look like when wet?
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.
"Flea ridden, stinking, piddling creatures." Quote from an Aussie newspaper comic from many years ago. LOL
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.
In other words, these memes are the result of smoothbrain humans, not smoothbrain koalas.
Absolutely love tibees' dialogues.
no mention of the rates of chlamydia?
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
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.
@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
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"
Whoever voiced the koala has beautiful voice!! Can't stop listening to it..
Tibees,she has her own UA-cam channel.
I feel that MinuteEarth are the only people with the koalifications to talk about this topic. The koalas should feel special as well, as instead of a minute, they got an almost 5 minute, MinuteEarth, video! I like to think of them as nature's pillows.
The only "bad" thing about koalas is waking up at night listening to their demonic mating calls, and that's just a fun story to tell foreigners
Like koalas or die
Don’t feel like it
why would you get a kiwi to voice a koala? everyone might not know the difference, but aussies and kiwis spot it straight away
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.
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).
@@thelastfruitcake I mean, I pointed out that possibility in my comment
@Owen_loves_Butters yeah, i was confirming what i know about the topic. sorry if my wording wasn't good
"The universe is balanced on the back of a giant koala. WHY IS HE SMILING?"
Aww, I love you *KOALAS!!* 🐨💚
One word: Chlamydia
Chlamydia.
No Yank nor perfidious Albionite may slander our furry friends. The Koala is a national treasure! 🐨🇦🇺😤
Thanks for the high koalat-y content! ❤
You Didn't even mention the chlamydia....
imagine not being born with probably the single most important thing to your survival
The ability to walk ? The ability to eat something else then milk ? The ability to have teeth ? Oh wait. That is the case for humans.
@@Mark_badas I'm talking abt the microbes, even then ur reply was irrelevant asl, and ur roast was not it
@@I_am_him_42069 I know that you mean the microbes but still. A lot of successful animals needs support from parents to be successful. Mammals for example.
@@Mark_badas can u not take a joke bro ?
@@I_am_him_42069 that was the worst joke I’ve ever heard.
I believe rabbits also produce two different types of poop pellets, one of which they eat again, for the added nutrients.
‘Sleepy, slow and a bit weird’ sounds like me fr.
Just saying that the people who hate koalas also hate pandas
Love how they never mentioned how 80% of koalas have klamydia.. lol
Dogs have contagious venereal cancer which is worse imo
Yeah, but what about the chlamydia ?