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Home / Wildlife / Baby koalas eat poop to help transition from drinking milk to eating eucalyptus leaves

Baby koalas eat poop to help transition from drinking milk to eating eucalyptus leaves

Updated on May 17, 2024December 1, 2022
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The excrement, called pap, comes from their mother and can smell like eucalyptus because of their eucalyptus leaf diet. It has the microbes baby koalas/joeys need to digest eucalyptus leaves.

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