We have a way to save the Koala bear, but it's a little bit

Koala bears are one of Australia's symbolic animals, but they are falling into an inevitable disaster.

One of Australia's iconic animals - the Koala bear - is in a somewhat tragic situation, and there are two reasons for that.

First of all, Koala is also a very lazy species, just like a lazy one. They spend most of their time living on eucalyptus trees, eating and sleeping there. The problem is that eucalyptus leaves are poisonous, and the price to pay for them is to sleep a lot, about 18-22 hours a day to digest that toxin.

Koala is a fairly gentle species.

They are quite "soft" . Not all eucalyptus leaves eat, but only some specific types. This leads to the second problem: when their habitat is gradually narrowed, they still don't bother to eat other leaves. They will only eat the leaves they like, until the leaves are exhausted and entail the collapse of an entire population.

In addition to some other tragedies such as being attacked by wild dogs, chlamydia infection . the number of Koala bears is decreasing. This makes scientists have to work hard to find solutions, before they fall into extinction.

The answer is already there, but it's a little . terrible

The solution provider is Dr. Ben Moore from Western Sydney University (Australia). According to him, the best way here is to make eating Koala bears better, more and more diverse.

Moore said, he noticed that some populations of Koala bears had adapted themselves. Normally, Koala likes to eat leaves of manna gum - containing more protein and less toxins. But when the supply of manna gum dried up, they turned to eucalyptus messmate.

Eucalyptus eucalyptus - the favorite plant of Koala is gradually being cleared because they eat too much.

What is the difference? After the test, he thought it was gut bacteria . The omnivorous Koala are fortunate to have a rich set of bacteria, allowing for the treatment of a large amount of toxins and eating more comfortably.

So he came up with the idea of ​​taking some of these lucky Koala individuals to transplant them into the gut of others. Of course, there is no direct implant, it is to mix with water and put in a centrifuge to get the bacteria, then close it into tablets to feed them 2-3 times a day.

The results have not been officially announced, but Moore revealed that the experiment was successful. The bacteria of many bears begin to change, and they eat more leaves.

Koala bears have been used to eating manna gum for too long, so changing behavior is not easy.

However, most are still quite stubborn, refusing to eat and take medicine. According to Moore, Koala bears have been used to eating manna gum for too long, so changing the behavior is not easy. However, we still have to try, if we don't want the Australian symbolic animal to starve to death.

Besides, Moore shared that these are still the first experiments, but there will be more complete studies. In other words, the future of this bear is dependent on . faeces of some individuals. It sounds a bit overwhelming, right?