Koala fur collection by honeyeater birds

Koalas are useful to other animals.
In the You Yangs, west of Melbourne, Brown-headed Honeyeaters live in substantial numbers. They live as a family group, helping each other raise the chicks. Their nest, like many honeyeaters in the Melithreptus group, is a small deep cup that hangs by its rim in the foliage of the lower branches of trees. The nest is made of made of bark strips, grass, cobwebs and koala hair.

Watch the little birds pluck hair from the backs of koalas. Some koalas tolerate it, even like it, while others will move away, scratch at the places the honeyeaters pluck.

Read more and see graphs and charts of our observations here:
https://www.echidnawalkabout.com.au/koalas-and-brown-headed-honeyeaters/

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