Leaf connoisseur in the making 🐨 🌱 Baby koalas, called joeys, can’t eat eucalyptus leaves right away. Their stomachs aren’t ready to handle the tough, fibrous leaves, and they don’t yet have the special gut bacteria needed to digest them. When a joey is around 6–7 months old, the mother helps it make the transition from milk to gumleaves by producing a special substance called pap. Unlike the hard, dry pellets of adult koala poo, pap is soft and runny. Pap is rich in protein and, most importan

2K views · 51 reactions | A baby koala is called a joey, and it is born blind, hairless, and only about an inch long, resembling a pink jellybean. The newborn then crawls into its mother's pouch to attach to a teat and begins a months-long development process, drinking only milk. | The Koala | Facebook