this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
311 points (97.6% liked)
People Twitter
10426 readers
643 users here now
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
- Mark NSFW content.
- No doxxing people.
- Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
- No international politcs
- Be excellent to each other.
- Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major celebrity, figure or any politician. See stickied post https://web.archive.org/save is an option. Archive.is is no longer recommended because they remove/alter content.
- If a tweet (or similar) makes a statement of fact, either mark it as "satire" in the body or provide the original source link backing up the statement (see rule 6)
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
To be fair, real life Koalas are easily one of the dumbest animals going, with the actual smoothest brain of any mammal.
And the reason for that is their primary food source, Eucalyptus leaves, are so nutritionally poor that they can't afford the extra neurons.
Hell, they're so built on instinct that they'll only recognise Eucalyptus leaves if attached to branches.
So if any mammal was going to be depicted as non-anthro, they're a pretty good candidate for it.
So you are suggesting everyone is crowding around to meet the new special needs student
Minimum Viable Marsupial.
In Koala's defense, I've heard people say that the "won't eat picked leaves" thing is an evolutionary advantage to stop them from eating rotting leaves off the ground. Of course, there are other ways to distinguish fresh and rotting food, but like you said, limited neurons.
I have to think that if it evolved this way, then probably there are not better ways, meaning perhaps there is a pathogen that occurs on downed leaves that is invisible and odourless. Or perhaps it just takes them out of the environment where they are at least minimally adapted to survive. Evolution is cruel but it's not stupid, and if it seems stupid it probably just means I'm stupid.
Koalas are the only animal I know of that regularly die from bursting into flames. Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable and they are covered in it all the time, so occasionally they just immolate if the sun hits them the wrong way
Okay but as often as humans cover themselves in something highly flammable and then accidentally immolate? I bet we take the prize.
They are the animal equivalent of animals, got it.
It’s because god knows how smart they’d be if their brain was developed and had to gimp them. After all, the koala is the creator (at least according to Lower Decks)