This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zuckus.

The creatures of Australia come springtime.

All the creatures in Australia are exotic and gorgeous to talk about.

I learn about skinks that can deposit their tail and move away.

However, there are creatures who don't actually try to kill you, they're just unusual.

But in the springtime, they're very cautious because they don't like humans around

their mess.

That makes sense.

Now, the major creature you think of about Australia, are the koalas. So we'll start

there. Have you heard the koalas, Jeremy? I've listened to their unusual call. You wouldn't think such a little cute thing could make such a

like it sounds like a it sounds like a it sounds like a not a dishwasher sounds like a a something as some grinding in the

sink you know that's what it sounds like when a koala sound now that's mostly in

the springtime have you heard anything like that?

I absolutely have and especially growing up in Adelaide next to a national park.

We used to hear exactly that and you described it very athletes, It's very, very guttural, very much like it's hard to explain. It's almost like a growl that has a mechanical feel to it. And you can imagine at night time, which is when they typically do it, how it sounds basically echoing

across the valleys and across the grasslands, it really travels and it sounds very, very, I guess

you could say, spooky in many ways, because unless you know what's actually happening,

you think either somebody's trying to come in and do some damage, or you think there's some kind of weird beast out there, but the koala's used this call because it's a mating call as well and

also a way to show dominance over territory so not only is it loud and guttural and very

much a deep, deep sounding sound, they actually managed to project it phenomenally.

And I have heard it so many times that is, I guess, very routine now, but I know when I've got

somebody with me, you may not have heard it before

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