YouTuber Alicia Alexander in Adelaide Hills, South Australia filmed a younger male koala getting kicked out of a tree by an older male koala, and the younger guy was not happy about it.
ScienceAlert explains:
During koala breeding season, the dominant males will patrol their territory, going from tree to tree to check if any females are ready to mate. This tree monopoly often sees young males that have just reached sexual maturity—from 18 months old—pushed out of the mating game until they’re old and tough enough to fight back.
While it’s not clear exactly how old the pair of fighting koalas are in the video above, the unsuccessful one is definitely younger, which would explain why all it can do is sit at the base of the Eucalyptus [tree] and make its dissatisfaction known.
While it’s likely he will be bullied out of access to females until he’s about four or five years old, Alicia Alexander mentions in the video description that he did eventually gain access to that tree when the older male wasn’t looking. “The little koala won as it had claimed the the tree by nightfall,” she said.
http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/16/koala-kicked-out-of-tree/
ScienceAlert explains:
During koala breeding season, the dominant males will patrol their territory, going from tree to tree to check if any females are ready to mate. This tree monopoly often sees young males that have just reached sexual maturity—from 18 months old—pushed out of the mating game until they’re old and tough enough to fight back.
While it’s not clear exactly how old the pair of fighting koalas are in the video above, the unsuccessful one is definitely younger, which would explain why all it can do is sit at the base of the Eucalyptus [tree] and make its dissatisfaction known.
While it’s likely he will be bullied out of access to females until he’s about four or five years old, Alicia Alexander mentions in the video description that he did eventually gain access to that tree when the older male wasn’t looking. “The little koala won as it had claimed the the tree by nightfall,” she said.
http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/16/koala-kicked-out-of-tree/