Koala drinks, eats and stars on youtube.
As the koala had been drinking water from an artificial source for 4 months. Some supplimentary food was left for it. The leaves are from a forest redgum, planted for koalas early this century.
Initially the koala snubbed the leaves and as the video records just had a drink . Four days later it returned and ate the outer tips.
Another four days later it returned again, spending sometime eating most of the remaining leaves, before heading up the tree for the night.
Coming down the tree the next day, it finished of the rest of the leaves it wanted. Forest redgum supported enough koalas to sustain the human fur trade until about 1910. Around that time the remaining koalas all died as a result of malnutrition and associated illnesses. Koalas require trees growing in more fertile soils What our generally evil governments and others don’t want to believe is that all of their management reduces soil fertility. The only way to increase soil fertility is to introduce the native species that evolved to maintain soil fertility, kept forest healthy and prevent koala extinction
Koalas from Dignams to Wapengo 