# Kissing the Koala **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212 "2014-08-22T16:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212/21 "2014-08-24T10:26:19Z")
[Probably not.](http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22207442) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212/22 "2014-08-25T10:34:20Z")
> [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](#): > > [Probably not.](http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22207442) I think he was talking about kissing a koala, not fucking it. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212/23 "2014-08-25T10:47:01Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I think he was talking about kissing a koala, not fucking it. I’ll personally avoid both options, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212/24 "2014-08-25T11:00:12Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I think he was talking about kissing a koala, not fucking it. Yeah but, it always starts with a kiss, right? ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212/25 "2014-08-25T13:01:13Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > The hazards of human environmental engineering are pretty much here to stay. What man has created in the environment is, from the standpoint of species that wish to survive, is a part of the new nature that they have to learn to deal with. > > Any species that cannot learn to share the earth with humans is going to fail, and they’d better let Darwinian selection weed out those that can’t survive a world of highways and speeding vehicles. > > There is a species of frogs that has, for millennia, associated the sound of thunder with impending rain, and when they hear it, they go out and breed. They now breed unsuccessfully in impossibly arid conditions, when they hear jet aircraft flying over, and no longer have a reliable way of anticipating necessary rainfall. What is the point of trying to save them, if they cannot learn to survive alongside humans in an altered habitat? Not to mention those that get squished under the wheels of cars. > > Don’t worry, a few million years after man becomes extinct, the world will again be nicely speciated, with every niche filled and humming along So really there’s not much point in picking up people after a battle then ? Maybe go around with a stun bolt gun as a merciful quietus. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212/26 "2014-08-25T14:16:08Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > So really there’s not much point in picking up people after a battle then ? Maybe go around with a stun bolt gun as a merciful quietus. Humans are a social species, which has evolved an order in which they are interdependent for the survival of both the individuals and the species. There is no such survival value in saving members of non-human species, unless the individual saved is of some value to the humans tho save it. Pursuing your own scenario, what was the “point” of sending those humans into battle in the first place, and inflicting disabling blows on them once they got there? Those in battle are not koalas accidentally struck down as collateral damage to human commerce, they were deliberately sent into harm’s way and then deliberately harmed. So however you choose to look at it, the circumstances are not at all congruent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-the-koala/696212.md?page=1)