Ashley Ream

It's surprising how often jokes require research. Today while working on the new Suzy Q. book, tentatively titled "Hot Shot," I found myself needing, for the purposes of humor, to verify that Koalas really do eat eucalyptus leaves as their main diet, and that this wasn't some sort of freaky urban legend. (Hey, it could happen. It's not like I'm keeping one as a pet.) And while doing this very innocuous research I came upon the following little-known fact that I absolutely had to share:

Koalas have a bifurcated penis.

They DO!

Bifurcated, in case you don't know and I didn't, means split or forked.

They also have fingerprints very similar to humans, but seriously, who cares about that when there's the penis thing?

Ashley Ream Dispatches from the City of Angels I'm a writer and humorist living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my novel LOSING CLEMENTINE out March 6 from William Morrow. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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