I like the implication that the weasel was the only one aware of this particular quirk of the koala and were he any other staff in the restaurant, they'd have a 40 minute dispute over whether the leaves in the bowls were food or not
The fact that the waiter realised what was up and pretended the food was just being served rather than pointing out the koalas mistake is the height of professionalism.
They evolved to have the smoothest brains in exchange for being able to eat eucalyptus which isnt edible for most creatures and is abundant... But also low in nutritional value. Also most koalas have chlamydia and can give it to you if they pee on you
Their full-on stupidity is theorized to be an evolutionary adaption that better lets them survive brain damage due to how often they fall out of their trees. Can't get brain damage if your brain has all the information processing ability of a rock.
Koalas are quite literally very smooth-brained. Honestly it's amazing that they're even still around, considering all the other stuff that lives in australia with them
The way he at first was like, “But it’s right there” yet immediately gave an exasperated sigh makes this think this doesn’t always happen. Like it happens enough for him to be tired of it, yet rarely enough that he expects the Koala to just eat the salad without a branch.
It's a perfect loop. The bowl was probably originally brought out with a stick, but it kept falling, so every time the waiter comes by he picks it up and puts it back in the bowl.
@@citizen_grub4171 the loop he's referring too: 1)Koala sees food with branch - happy 2)-branch falls out of bowl- 3)Koala sees food with no branch - sad 4)Waiter walks by - put branch in bowl 5) repeat step 1
@@vonnie0_0 There's a video of a koala getting kicked out of a tree by another koala, and he gets upset and just sits and screams, while another perfectly good vacant tree is behind him. "No I want THAT tree! EEEEEE!!!"
@@beauwalker9820 I remember a video of a koala fight where they basically just made these really demonic screams as they started lunging for one another!
The fact that a Koala can literally die of staring even with eucalipto leaves infront of them because they don't recognize them unless they come from the branch is crazy 💀 And Also, another fact, The smartest brains are the ones with the most wrinkles. Well, a koala's brain looks like a blobfish.
@@SuperDestroyerFox Or they can stop being crybabies about it and just eat. My cat has to leave his bowl empty before I give him more food and he knows it.
@@MeidoInHebun alright try eating but every time you try to take a bite you feel something touching your cheeks and also get scared that something is watching you.
@@vkiran3576 Not really, it's more that there was a niche that could be filled and nature slapped koalas into it (if your comment is a joke though I'm sorry but enjoy the fun fact I guess)
They actually can’t even eat Eucalyptus unless they eat their mother’s pap (basically soft crap) to get the enzymes to digest it. They actually have to eat shit to eat the plant.
@@celarts5752 The leaves sand paper like texture literally destroys their teeth, at a certain point they can just starve to death from not being able to eat the leaves anymore.
Those unaware, koalas brains are so small and smooth they legitimately: 1) can't recognize their only food UNLESS it's on a branch 2) they don't know they basically cannot eat eucalyptus
Oh yeah I remember that tumblr post: “Imma eat you, leaves” “but i’m poisonous” “I’ll literally develop enzymes to counter it” “but i have no nutrition!” “LEAFA!!!”
Smooth bains isn't a cause of lack of intellect, hundreds of animals have smooth brains like mice and rats 1) It's because Eucalyptus leaf are very poor calories, the one who fall on the ground get rotten and take more energy to digeste it than fresh one so it's not worth it. 2) They can and they eat it very well. Read a book instead of memes.
Koalas and pandas are two animals that we refuse to let die despite their best efforts because theyre cute. How they survived until we came along is a miracle
The fact that the waiter bends down to pick up the stick from the same place it falls down to later implies this wasn't the first time and he's been reusing the same stick every time he redos it lol
Here's a fun fact about koalas: they really are this dumb in real life. Their brains are relatively smooth, and it has been proven that when food is put in front of them, if it doesn't look exactly like the food they are used to, they won't recognize it as food-and they starve.
Fun fact: Armadillos can cross bodies of water either by just sinking to the bottom and crawling (they can hold their breath for 7 minutes) or inflating their intestines and using them as a flotation device.
Thinking about it, both species are from Australia, so now I'm stuck with the idea that Perry doesn't look down on Doofenschmertz for being fooled by his removing his hat is because he has koala friends and is just used to the idea that it's just the way some people's brains are
Fun fact: due to koalas ONLY eating eucalyptus leaves, it makes them one of the few animals in the animal kingdom to be true herbivores. Most animals we classify as herbivores are actually opportunistic omnivores.
No. Herbivores are animals that have plants as their main food source, and occasionally eating meat doesn't turns them into omnivores. Same goes for mesocarnivores. In this regard there is a certain gradation: - 100% herbivores like koalas and sloths, only plant matter and nothing else. - Herbivores that may occasionally eat some meat, but do so really rare. This goes for most herbivores, such as ungulates. - Omnivores with preference for plants. They can thrive on everything, but prefer plant matter. Those are pigs and, to some degree, squirrels. - Omnivores with preference for meat. Those are bears (Some specialized species not included). Can eat nearly everything, but mostly eat meat. - Mesocarnivores. Carnivores that may occasionally supplement their diet with other food. Dogs and other canids are good example. - Hypercarnivores. 100% meat diet. Can't digest plant matter. Those include felines, most carnivorans, birds of prey, cetaceans, and nearly all non-mammal carnivores.
It is honestly a miracle that they’re still alive. Just really goes to show that no matter how stupid you are as long as you have pretty privilege you’ll be fine
This is like one of the first times I've straight up busted out laughing at your shorts and couldn't stop. Just the entire setup, the timing, animation, voice acting, all combined and just made me crack up so hard.
I heard a cashier as a restaurant say they had a guy complain about his fries not being hot because he didn't have to wait for them to cook. The fries had come up just as he ordered. The customer went to eat one to show it wasn't hot and burned his mouth while trying to pretend it was cold
To be fair to koalas, not eating eucalyptus that isn’t on a branch is likely a survival instinct to not eat spoiled or rotten leaves. To them, eating eucalyptus that isn’t on a branch is the equivalent of eating a slice of cheese you found just lying on the street.
There's a similar but opposite phenomenon with lions and tourists. Apparently the lions don't just attack the car like a sardine can because they think the people in the car and the car itself are one unit, like an inedible hippo or something, but if anyone gets out of the car then suddenly they recognize that individual as prey and will attack.
That actually reminds me of a zebra defense mechanism. They will stand together so that their patterns together which makes the lion think they are one giant amorphous blob of hooves
I think it is way more understandable to not know how a car works than a leaf. But with that said, cats (and lions) will refuse to drink from a source of water if they cannot see the bottom. Since it could mean the water is too murky to see the bottom.
Evolution is not about becoming strong, fast, or smart. It is about being able to adapt to certain environment and pass on genes to the next generation. And koalas successfully did. They have unique niche with no competitors, and once there were tens of koala species, and the modern one was more widespread.
@@StonedtotheBones13 The brain is proportionately small--the absolute smallest mammalian brain would go to something like a shrew. Ostriches are much smarter than koalas, because the brain is folded, increasing the surface area. Additionally, birds have much more compact brains than mammals, which is how a raven can be as smart or smarter than an ape.
It is not necessarily bad that eucalyptus leaves laid out on a plate are not recognized as food by them as food. Eucalyptus leaves in general are quite low in nutrients, so koalas are very picky about which leaves they eat; they eat the fresher ones on the tree, and generally don't bother with the less nutritious fallen leaves. Leaves on a plate, however, looks very much like fallen leaves to a koala. Also, if an alien put a random piece of meat in front of you, would you eat it? Many people seem to also be making the point that koalas are smooth-brained. While this is true, not all science suggests that this impairs their intelligence. Birds have smooth brains, but several such as parrots can make tools, and speak. And the famously intelligent octopus has a very smooth brain as well.
How’s it’s a miracle? No big land predators, no real predators to get to the tree canopy besides raptors and monitor lizards. But even then the koalas diet makes it’s extremely unappetising to predators
Fun fact: there have been 4 australian animals in the series so far. 1st being the Platypus 2nd being the Cockatiel 3rd being the Quokka and 4th being the Koala
@@randominternetsurfersurfin7595 I think that's a neat thing. Whenever you mention Australia, most people think of kangaroos 🦘 So it's nice to see some more animals native to it, even if some are horrible monsters or.... Koalas
Fun fact, there’s a reason koalas will not eat leaves from a plate, it’s not that they can’t recognise it as food but because it looks like fallen debris and rotten leaves which has absolutely no nutritional value, something they’re very picky about as eucalyptus leaves are very nutrient poor and so they need to eat LOTS of them and so they only go for the best ones to minimise that massive load
This is the service worker experience. There's nothing else to say other than most people act like koalas when interacting with a service worker. ETA: Right down to. The. Scream.
@@virgilscrivener5335 pandas would likely be unaffected by us, as current climate change is larhgely based o nour efforts. Koalas are not as safe on that, as they are dumb and slow in and enviroment built to kill.
@@BFswithGFs Dunno, but I doubt they would have survived another thousand. Pandas eat incredibly energy inefficient bamboo for their diet and koalas eat leaves that are actually terrible for their nutrition but they refuse to eat anything else
