Koala Gardens was recently interviewed on this topic by a journalist student. The process of being interviewed was really very enjoyable. We conducted the interview using zoom and I was reminded what a fantastic tool this is, and how all of us working to save koalas should use collaboration tools more. Kristen had researched the… Read More »Combating koala extinction
Scents are important to koalas and their sense of smell is highly developed. We are all aware that they have large noses dominating their faces, and that is not coincidental. The sense of smell is used for two main purposes – communication and chemical analysis of a potential meal. In both cases the ability to… Read More »The koala nose
I have been fascinated by how koalas respond, or do not respond, to sound, when I have been out koala spotting. It would appear that koalas have a decent ability to hear. They have large, mobile ears and when awake I have found they can hear footsteps, twigs snapping or voices quite acutely. However hearing… Read More »What do koalas hear?
Koalas are often killed by cars in towns where the speed limits are much lower as well as out of town on higher speed roads. One issue for koalas coping with roads in an urban area, is that there is more happening to distract the koala and the person driving the car. The koala has… Read More »Koalas, cars and the urban setting
We have discussed the way koala eyes work, or rather how they don’t work as well as the eyes of either predators or prey animals. See koala eyesight post for more background information. It’s more than their physical eyes however, it’s how their brains are hard-wired as well. The koala is in an unusual position, being neither… Read More »How koala eyesight impacts on them today
If you pose this question through Google the answer is pretty quickly returned as “no they do not”. Now why might that be? To understand why we need to consider the environment they had before humans came ripping through their homeland and changing everything. Koalas are arboreal marsupials which means they live in trees, and… Read More »Do koalas have good eyesight?
