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Fact # 24 – Drunk on Eucalyptus?

    A young koala asleep in a tree with text that reads: Save the koala September Fact # 24 It is a myth that koalas get drunk on eucalyptus leaves. Honest officer not even one!

    Katrina says:

    SAVE the Koala September FACT 24.

    Many still ask me whether this is true, but it is definitely false.

    Koalas can sure look like they have passed out because they are drunk or stoned.

    They certainly sleep in the strangest positions. But the leaves do not contain alcohol nor and kind of narcotic.

    By the time they fill their stomach as much as possible, they drape themselves in the branches to stay stable and sleep to aid digestion.

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