Mon 1/23 @ 7PM
There’s no getting around it. Koala bears, which aren’t actually bears, are so cute. I once spent an afternoon at the Berlin Zoo watching a koala eat eucalypus, the mainstay of their diet. It lay on its back as it feed the long branches of the plant into its mouth. And when tens of thousands of koalas were killed or injured in the brush fires of 2019 in its native Australia, the whole world grieved.
Australian biologist Danielle Clode has written a book called Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future, looking into the lives of koalas and how to protect them from extinction. Her book explores the science behind their evolution and their habits and the impact that human encroachment on their habitat has had on them.
She’ll be speaking in a livestreamed program for the Hudson Library and Historical Society. It’s free but registration is required. Go here.