Scientists in Australia have discovered how to save starving koalas whose fussy eating habits make them vulnerable to habitat loss: by feeding them poo.A team of researchers used fecal transplants in the form of orally ingested capsules to alter the microbes in the marsupials' guts, thus allowing them to eat a wider range of eucalypts.Let’s understand more about Koalas…
The team caught wild koalas that fed exclusively on manna gum, then fed them poo from messmate eating koalas packaged into acid-resistant capsules.
The capsules successfully altered the manna gum eating koalas' biomes, allowing them to eat other species of trees.
Koalas are native to which place?
Koala bear is a/an ___________ animal.
Koala bear does not have tail.
The above statement is True or False?
Koalas sleep upto 20 hours a day.
Koalas are listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. What does the term “Vulnerable” means?
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