It Took 10 years for Aboriginal Australians to Spot and Recognize Koalas
Aboriginal Australians when started exploring Australian flora and Fauna, it took them almost 10 years to spot and recognize Koalas. Therefore, even with the presence of the humans, Koalas were just so much un-harmful and self-indulged creatures, that an exploring naked eye of many researchers failed to recognized and for 10 years of time. This also shows that how calm this animal really is and it rarely intervenes anyone else’s business. Maybe it might well be this core reason that Koalas were almost obscure to the aboriginal Australian inhabitants that it took them a time of almost of a whole decade.
There can be a lot of reasons about why it took so long (almost 10 years and even more) for the European settlers to finally discover koalas at the Australian continent? Perhaps the numbers of animals throughout the continent of Australia were so much in abundance that they only started focusing on the animals with an ease of access. On the other hand; the aboriginal and native people of Australia knew the presence of koalas long before the arrival of the European settlers at the Australian continent. Furthermore; they knew some of the basic features of koalas the biggest one being the animal not drinking water at all from the waterholes.
First reason would be that Koalas are very solitary animals. They do not live in groups like monkeys. Their solitary nature would have allowed them to live alone, in peace without creating much attention to the humans. Therefore, one or two animals within one territory, would have certainly made very hard for the aboriginal Australians to notice them as well.
Secondly the Koalas don’t live at the bottom of the trees. Their habitat is not on the ground but at the trees. Moreover, on the trees they live at the top branches where fresh leaves are specifically available. The eucalyptus trees are very long and tall and from the ground level, it just might be very hard to spot the Koalas. This could be the core reason that it took ten years for the Native Aboriginal Australians to spot and recognize the Koala.
Another reason can be that many people would have spotted Koalas during the earlier times, but they would have failed to understand their unique existence. They would have definitely confused Koalas with monkeys, bears and sloths. Koalas sleep 20 hours a day, many people who would have watched them and still would have related them with the likes of bears, monkeys or sloths for sure as, if any of these animals was on the sleep. Koalas became active only at night, where it was barely any chance for the humans to exactly spot them as a separate species. Therefore, it could be the core reason that it would have taken a lot time for the aboriginal Australians to recognize and classify the Koalas as separate species.
