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Koala gets kicked out of tree (Original Post) handmade34 Jan 2016 OP
Was he a young or baby koala ? Sanity Claws Jan 2016 #1
young male handmade34 Jan 2016 #2
Well, my dog is very upset about that! femmocrat Jan 2016 #3
so very sorry handmade34 Jan 2016 #4
Awww, it's not your fault. LOL femmocrat Jan 2016 #5
Otis, is that you? Baitball Blogger Jan 2016 #6
All that weird hollering got my cats wound up. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2016 #7
The cat in my lap immediatly started biting the laptop near the speaker. haele Jan 2016 #10
One of mine crept cautiously toward the computer The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2016 #12
Poor little guy! redwitch Jan 2016 #8
That poor baby! Solly Mack Jan 2016 #9
My Snowy did NOT like hearing that baby cry. mnhtnbb Jan 2016 #11
aww Enrique Jan 2016 #13
... handmade34 Jan 2016 #14
That sucks Liberal_in_LA Jan 2016 #15

Sanity Claws

(21,852 posts)
1. Was he a young or baby koala ?
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 12:09 PM
Jan 2016

He was crying for help, very upset that he had been removed from the tree.

handmade34

(22,757 posts)
2. young male
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 01:02 PM
Jan 2016

During koala breeding season, the dominant males will patrol their territory, going from tree to tree to check if any females are ready to mate. This tree monopoly often sees young males that have just reached sexual maturity—from 18 months old—pushed out of the mating game until they’re old and tough enough to fight back.

While it’s not clear exactly how old the pair of fighting koalas are in the video above, the unsuccessful one is definitely younger, which would explain why all it can do is sit at the base of the Eucalyptus [tree] and make its dissatisfaction known.

While it’s likely he will be bullied out of access to females until he’s about four or five years old, Alicia Alexander mentions in the video description that he did eventually gain access to that tree when the older male wasn’t looking. “The little koala won as it had claimed the the tree by nightfall,” she said.


"...researchers in the UK reported that these bellows—recordings of which were used to create T. rex roars in Jurassic Park—are produced by an organ found in no other animal on Earth. A team from the University of Sussex identified unique vocal cords inside koalas that are completely separate from their larynx (or voice box). “It’s the first evidence in a land-dwelling mammal of an organ other than the larynx that is devoted to producing sound,” Bates explained.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. Well, my dog is very upset about that!
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 02:12 PM
Jan 2016

She heard the crying, started to whimper and ran off to look for the cry-baby.

handmade34

(22,757 posts)
4. so very sorry
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 02:24 PM
Jan 2016


did you see this:

researchers in the UK reported that these bellows—recordings of which were used to create T. rex roars in Jurassic Park—are produced by an organ found in no other animal on Earth.


the cries are very unique and while I was sorry he got booted... the cries made me laugh

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
5. Awww, it's not your fault. LOL
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 02:31 PM
Jan 2016

I thought it was cute that she was so worried about where the sound was coming from. She never came back, so I guess she "found" it.... or a good place to nap.

I thought it was adorable that the people offered him their tree.

haele

(12,673 posts)
10. The cat in my lap immediatly started biting the laptop near the speaker.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:34 PM
Jan 2016

Then she hissed and started biting me after 20 seconds. "Make it STOP!"

Haele

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,810 posts)
12. One of mine crept cautiously toward the computer
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 06:09 PM
Jan 2016

with a WTF??? look on her face. The other two suddenly woke up and started swiveling their ears, looking similarly puzzled. They seemed kind of agitated so I turned the sound off.

mnhtnbb

(31,401 posts)
11. My Snowy did NOT like hearing that baby cry.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:43 PM
Jan 2016

Most of the time she ignores sounds of other dogs, or birds, or meowing kitties coming from the laptop, but she
got right up and came over to me and wanted to know what was going on.

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