Honestly, I only ever care about this sort of thing if the setting makes a big deal out of it. If the author never addresses the cast eating a ham sandwich or whatever, then I’m not going to pull that thread. If they try to rationalize it on the other hand, we’ll them I expect them to do a good job of it.

So you are suggesting everyone is crowding around to meet the new special needs student

In Koala's defense, I've heard people say that the "won't eat picked leaves" thing is an evolutionary advantage to stop them from eating rotting leaves off the ground. Of course, there are other ways to distinguish fresh and rotting food, but like you said, limited neurons.

Minimum Viable Marsupial.

Koalas are the only animal I know of that regularly die from bursting into flames. Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable and they are covered in it all the time, so occasionally they just immolate if the sun hits them the wrong way

They are the animal equivalent of animals, got it.

It’s because god knows how smart they’d be if their brain was developed and had to gimp them. After all, the koala is the creator (at least according to Lower Decks)

Just a bunch of monkeys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGphsPOHi2M

Bojack Horseman plays a little bit with this, a guy orders a burger and apologizes to the waitress who took his order who is a cow. And chickens are chemically altered in ovo to be as dumb as real chickens, which makes it OK(?) to eat them.