When George Perry published the first image of a koala in his 1810 natural history work Arcana, he wrote, “…they have little either in their character or appearance to interest the Naturalist or Philosopher."   But I say that this just proves that ol' George was not a very good Naturalist.  Learn why George was so very wrong on this episode of the Podcast!

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