2️⃣ 🧬 Tracklist + Adaptation Explanations🧬 

Track Title #1: Free Climbin’

Adaptation Focus: Climbing adaptations

Explanation: Koalas are well equipped to climb with the help of their five fingers with two opposable thumbs, thick grippy paw pads, claws and strong muscles. Their climbing is an essential part of their daily lives, as they climb to get food and spend most of their time in the trees.

Track Title #2: Careless Slumber

Adaptation Focus: energy conservation

Explanation: The Koalas diet of poisonous eucalyptus leaves does not contain many nutrients, so to conserve energy they sleep 18-22 hours per day. They also don't move from tree to tree often unless necessary.

Track Title #3: Koala Coloured Dreams

Adaptation Focus: Different coloured Fur

Explanation: Koalas have different coloured fur based on where they live, adapting to their environment. Brown koalas(southern) have thicker darker and almost brown fur to be able to handle colder climates. Meanwhile northern koalas (the ones we all know and love) have lighter thinny and silvery gray coloured fur, which helps keep them cool in the intense summer heat.

Track Title #4: Cool In The Canopy

Adaptation Focus: Tree Hugging/Temperature Regulation

Explanation: Koalas have this interesting adaptation, it's called tree hugging. In the summer they lay on top of acacia trees to stay cool during the hot weather. The trunks and branches can be up to 10c cooler than the surrounding air.

Track Title #5: Eat it

Adaptation Focus: Digestive adaptation

Explanation: A Koalas digestive system is important to them, because eucalyptus, (their main food source) has high toxin levels. Their digestive system breaks down the toxins and slows down digestion to maximize nutrient absorption.

3️⃣ 📝Liner Notes Feature: Acknowledgments📝

Special thanks to my digestive system, which detoxifies and allows me to eat eucalyptus leaves. Credits to my fur which protects me from cold and extreme heat through insulations, my fur helps me to blend into the gum tree trunks. I’d also like to acknowledge my paws and muscles which help me climb through the first and reach the leaves. Lastly, I'm grateful for my sleeping habits and low metabolism . They make surviving on my fibrous diet of eucalyptus leaves effortless. I conserve energy easily by sleeping longer.

4️⃣ Production Notes

Produced high up in the leafy tree canopy.

2️⃣ 🧬 Tracklist + Adaptation Explanations🧬 

Track Title #1: 88lbs gut check

Adaptation Focus: Specialized digestive system

Explanation:  The Sumatran Tiger has a specialized digestive system/stomach built to withstand larger amounts of food. Although they don't generally eat 88lbs of food, they can. When Sumatran tigers eat more food it’s to preserve energy for longer periods of time. The worm-like things in the tiger’s mouth on the album cover actually represents the digestive system.

Track Title #2: Eye of the Tiger

Adaptation Focus: Eyes (Nocturnal, Glowing)

Explanation: 

Sumatran Tigers are nocturnal, meaning they can see particularly well in the dark, almost six times better than any human. They use this adaptation to hunt and take camouflage in the darkness. A Sumatran tiger’s eye also glows a vibrant yellow under the moonlight. You are able to see that in the album cover, the eyes are very striking.

Track Title #3: Paw Patrol

Adaptation Focus: Padded paws

Explanation:  Sumatran Tigers have very soft and layered paws for silent walking. A tiger’s main hunting tactic is stealth, because they sneak up on their prey they must be able to patrol without being heard or seen. Padded paws also help the tiger’s claws from wearing down as they are retractable and retract into the layers.

Track Title #4: Stripes in the shadows

Adaptation Focus: Stripes, Camouflage

Explanation:  A Sumatran Tiger’s stripes is one of the most important camouflage features. It allows the tiger to blend in with the textures of trees, bushes, grass, etc. The stripes also break up the orange colour on a tiger’s body as if it’s split into many pieces.  

Track Title #5: Roar

Adaptation Focus: Overtaking roar

Explanation: The Sumatran Tiger learned to let out a loud roar to assert dominance wherever it is in its environment. It’s the Tiger’s way of letting prey know to stay away, especially if it’s a female because they are far more territorial than male Sumatran tigers. On the album cover you can see the tigers angry expression and open mouth, and that’s what is representing that loud overtaking roar.

3️⃣ 📝Liner Notes Feature: Acknowledgments📝

Thank you to the Sumatra jungles for providing cover, warmth, and food. Lots of credits go towards my vibrant orange coat for appearing green in prey’s eyes, and my thin stripes for breaking up my orange in the grass. Shoutout to my padded paws for making me a silent walker, and many acknowledgements to my webbed feet for allowing me to swim, making me different from other feline predators. 

4️⃣ Production Notes

Produced on Indonesian land

Mixed in warm temperatures and striped shadows

Engineered by fierce generations of jungle adapted bodies

Mastered in stealth and calculated hunting