- basically, eucalyptus leaves are neurotoxic. this is the one and only thing koalas will ever eat. you can see a problem here, yes?
- they are so insistent on eating eucalyptus leaves anyway, that they are even very picky about them. koalas will only eat leaves from within a specific range of wherever they were born, for some reason. which is a bad idea if those trees are all planning to burn down once every few years.
- despite that, they only understand how to eat eucalyptus leaves off the branch. they just eat the leaves, right? but if you hand a koala a plate of leaves, it won't know w…