OK, which one of you perverts went to Austrialia and gave the Koalas Chlamydia?

[FLPanhandle]

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2077431,00.html

Are Australia's Koalas, Battling Climate Change and Chlamydia, On the Path to Extinction?

SYDNEY) — Although they appear in just about every Australian postcard, koala bears are actually quite hard to spot in the wild, where their numbers are gradually declining. Scientists are now sounding the alarm — and urging Australia's senate to declare the iconic, sleepy-eyed marsupials an endangered species.

Scientists estimate Australia's koala bear population at somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000. "We cannot be totally sure because we don't receive enough public subsidies to thoroughly study the subject. But it is clear that the number is dropping," says Alistair Melzer, a senior researcher at Queensland University. In the Gold Coast region, the number of koala bears seems to have decreased by as much as 80% since the 1990s.

Moreover, the tree-dwelling animals suffer from heat waves and drought, which are likely to be more frequent because of climate change. Koala bears cannot cope with high temperatures, and they need to get moisture from eucalyptus leaves. "If climate change predictions play out, koala bears won't migrate to the South, where temperatures are lower. As a result, they will just die," says Melzer.

Finally, koala bears suffer frequently from Chlamydia, a bacterium. "This is yet another among a multitude of threats that koala bears have to face," says Mathew Crowther, a biologist at the University of Sydney.



I can't imagine Australia without Koalas.

[arbusto_baboso]

1. That was Breitbart who did that.

He doesn't deny it, so it must be true.

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. LEts see, there are 435 members of congress. So I'd start there.

[FLPanhandle]

5. but some are Democrats

I'm going to strike them from the list of probable suspects. :)

[HopeHoops]

3. Does anyone know where Diaper Vitter is?

[notadmblnd]

4. I'll bet it was Rush.

[AzDar]

6. They got me drunk.

:)

[FLPanhandle]

7. Of course they did, what did you expect from a bunch of Australians?

:)

[pipi_k]

8. Geez you'd think they'd learn after the dingoes gave 'em the crabs...n/t

[rustydog]

9. Rupert Murdoch?

[mysuzuki2]

10. It wasn't me

I ued a condom.

[AnnieBW]

11. I got bit by a horny wallaby in Sydney

But I didn't give a chlamydia to a koala.