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Humans are pretty strange for keeping the same body plan throughout our entire life! Why do so many organisms change their body plan anyway?
Humans are pretty strange for keeping the same body plan throughout our entire life! Why do so many organisms change their body plan anyway?








![Why Do People Hate Koalas? (ft. @tibees )
On the Internet, koalas get an unnecessary amount of hate, so lets debunk some of the most pervasive koala myths! Featuring @tibees
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- Fecal pap: a mixture of contents from an herbivore mothers caecum that colonizes the joeys gut with bacteria.
- Marsupial: a mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mothers belly.
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Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Director
Toby Hendy @tibees | Koala voice
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