The Tale of The Hungry Koala [ENCORE]

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Tumble returns with all new episodes starting January 22! We’ll have stories about fossils, telescopes, and baby falcons getting into big trouble. How does a koala eat eucalyptus leaves? Eucalyptus is toxic to most animals, but they’re a koala’s only food. In this episode, we look past the cuddliness to discover how koalas manage to chow down on the Australian tree species. Biologist Michaela Blyton shares the story of how she convinced some extremely picky koalas to try new foods in the midst of a conservation crisis. Spoiler alert: It involves starting a koala hotel, and inventing a pill with an unusual ingredient.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Marshall. Happy New Year. I am sure many of you are probably getting
0:05.8	back to school right now, but we're still on Winter Break here in Spain.
0:09.3	Yeah, and we just celebrated another holiday that many people may not have heard of. It's
0:14.7	called Three Kings Day, and it's the very last holiday of a very long Christmas celebration.
0:21.6	Is this podcast about holidays of the world now?
0:24.4	No, this is still a science podcast. This is just an intro to the episode which
0:29.7	we're about to play, which is about Koala poop.
0:33.4	Okay, so this is a podcast about holidays and poop. I get it. So New Year, NewPod.
0:39.6	We actually have all new episodes about science lined up for you beginning on January 22nd.
0:48.2	So stay tuned to Tumble Science Podcast for Kids and enjoy one of our favorite episodes.
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1:26.3	So most people think of Koala's as one of the most legitimately adorable creatures on
1:32.5	the planet. But I talk to a scientist who sees them quite differently. They're basically
1:38.8	just a big bag of guts. That's Michaela Blighton. She's a biologist at the University of Queensland
1:46.6	in Australia. I mean, you think of a Koala as being soft and squishy and that sort of
1:51.8	why they don't have a huge amount of stomach muscle. They just have a lot of guts.
1:57.5	I thought it was just really that their stuffed animal is brought to life. Nope. 100%
2:04.1	furry bags of guts with a cute head. And what's in those guts is the secret to how Koala's
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