Koalawalla Woods
Welcome to the Koalawalla Woods
This is the community for koala lovers to discuss koalas that need land and woods since they are in danger of becoming extinct in their most native wilderness habitat on the Koala Coast of South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
We hope this haven in the eucalyptus woods can bring attention to this serious issue facing Australia's most recognizable national icon and the natural heritage in which it thrives.
You can share a koala story, ask a koala question, or start a koala conversation about saving koalas. Maybe you will make some friends in the process.
Community Rules
- Be civil as we won't tolerate anyone being disrespectful to others including koalas.
- No harassment or threats of any kind.
- No bots, spam, or self-promotion of anything unrelated to koalas.
- Misinformation of koalas is prohibited.
- No duplication of posts.
- No link shorteners.
- All koala news posts should contain source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
- Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ablest will be removed.
- Lemmy World rules also apply here.
A Koala brain looks like a raw chicken breast
That's bullshit.
Not the urban dictionary entry, but the idea that smooth brain = less intelligent.
In Humans, there's a disorder called lissencephaly. It's effectively just human brain but smooth and comes with significant developmental impact. It can be hard to define intelligence sometimes, but people with lissencephaly are behind pretty much no matter how you measure it.
For animals, it's less clear because it can be even harder to define intelligence especially since animals frequently don't need to be smart in ways that we would care to measure and sometimes even smooth brained animals are very focused on things we would classify as 'intelligence' from a human standpoint. We're pretty confident on wrinkly brains in mammals being more efficient though and a correlation between efficiency and effective intelligence is usually a safe conclusion. The wrinkles basically just let you stuff more usable brain into a smaller skull.