{"id":421824,"date":"2010-03-12T14:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a92d98b9970b"},"modified":"2010-03-12T15:10:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:10:42","slug":"your-morning-adorable-ticklish-koala-flicks-its-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421824","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Ticklish koala flicks its ears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are so crazy about YouTube user cleelun<\/a>‘s video of her encounter with a ticklish koala that we don’t even know what to do with ourselves. <\/p>\n

This young koala is a resident of the Featherdale Wildlife Park<\/a> in Sydney, Australia. Like others of its species, it’s well adapted to a life in the treetops — koalas have two thumbs on their hands, and the skin on the bottom of their feet has ridges that, rather like the tread on the soles of humans’ shoes,\u00a0provide traction.<\/p>\n

(Of course, we’re in total agreement with naturalist and blogger David Mizejewsk that, despite how very tempting it would be to reach out and touch a koala, you shouldn’t try this at home — or in the wild. "Never approach any wild animal, because even cute ones will not hesitate to bite and claw you to protect themselves," Mizejewski wrote on his Discovery News blog<\/a>. "In fact, in the wild koalas have a reputation for being rather nasty when they feel threatened.")<\/p>\n

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<\/br>Stress, chlamydiosis killing Australia’s koalas in increasing numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

— Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n

Video: cleelun via YouTube<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are so crazy about YouTube user cleelun‘s video of her encounter with a ticklish koala that we don’t even know what to do with ourselves. This young koala is a resident of the Featherdale Wildlife Park in Sydney, Australia. Like others of its species, it’s well adapted to a life in the treetops — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}