Australia's Koalas at risk from climate change
People, as cute and cuddly as they want to make the koala out to be, it’s also bound to be an evolutionary and ecological dead end. Like the Chinese panda that subsists only on bamboo shoots and nothing else, the koala eats only one kind of plant—the eucalyptus. Whenever an organism becomes so specialized that it can derive sustenance under very narrow conditions, its fate is sealed. From the moment it becomes that specialized it’s a matter of when not if it will become extinct.
Unless the bloody little furballs wake up soon and can suddenly eat a whole range of leaves and things and derive energy from whatever they put in their maw, they are merely passengers on the S.S. Titanic of evolution. Wouldn’t matter if there was Climate Change or not, they are doomed, I tell you. DOOMED!
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