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Nature: Cracking the Koala Code

Join leading scientists as they unravel what a forest needs to support a healthy population of koalas. Wednesday at 8 p.m. on PBS-HD 6. by Colleen Greer

Follow individual koalas from a small social group on an Australian island to learn just how a koala manages to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous to almost all other herbivorous mammals.

nature_koalas_running_spot An urban koala on a busy road in Brisbane, Australia.
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From the miracle of marsupial birth to tender moments of discovery between mother and newborn joey, encounters with threatening forest creatures, battles between rival males and the complex chorus of bellows and grunts that have become so important to science — join leading scientists as they unravel just what a forest needs to support a healthy population of koalas by listening to these marsupials themselves and cracking the koala code.

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Nature: Cracking the Koala Code, Wednesday at 8 p.m. on PBS-HD 6.

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