KC koalas aren't cute

I have no idea who is doing the advertising for the Kansas City Zoo but they are brilliant. The recent koala campaign claiming the sleepy little critters are "cute" is a classic bait and switch technique considering the little furry meatloafs do nothing but sleep for 18-22 hours a day (what we refer to as "a blogger's schedule) and it also turns out that a great many of the koalas in captivity have the clap.

“As much as 40-50 per cent of koalas coming into care in both QLD and NSW are showing clinical signs of the disease and it seems to be getting worse,” Professor Peter Timms from the Queensland University of Technology said . . . “Chlamydia has been a major problem in the koala population for a long time,” he said.

I know, I know the story is from Australia but let's not forget that tigers at the KC Zoo with feline AIDS who are cast off into the some far away cage where they look to be pretty bummed out about the whole thing . . . Seems like a more appropriate marketing slogan might be: "Come and see the skanks of the wild" but I guess that requires too much explaining to the kids who normally seem disinterested and out of breath halfway into the Africa exhibit . . . So, cleaning up the image of the STD infested captives at the Zoo might be a good idea after all and at least the koalas are having more fun in captivity than all of the other worthless animals.