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I would guess the most likely selective breeding would be for docile koalas that tolerate human contact. I wouldn't be surprised if really belligerent sacred koalas were declared demonically possessed and in need of an exorcism (with the help of a stout club)

What ever works best for you I fully support

I quite like this, it is like those animal pics I posted, in that it depicts a post-apocalyptic setting that is not totally bleak and full of despair

Not to side track the thread but in the book After Man by Dougal Dixon there are Marsupial Monkeys in Australia 50 million years from now http://speculativeevolution.wikia.com/wiki/Chuckaboo

Yeah, that is what I meant with the swan & peacock comparison. Would it be possible to do any sort of selective breeding of koalas, in such conditions? I know there are a couple of towns in the USA how to large numbers of wild albino squirrels http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/29067

Well, as the previous poster pointed out that might not always be the case

Would growing enough eucalyptus to sustain them be difficult?

IIRC some Aborigines though koalas were the reincarnated souls of dead children, Kind of like how peacocks & swans are kept as ornamental birds nowadays. Koalas might not care for a cuddle, but I don't think they would get into things the way monkeys would. Koalas with unusual features turn up...

A bunch of heathens paying special attention to a goat? Did anyy Europeans take that as witchcraft?

Were they ever kept as pets historically?

Jared, you have told us the names that kangaroos,emus, and quolls will be known to the world as. Have you decided what the 2 other iconic Australian animals koalas&platypuses will be known as?

I wonder if this branch of sexuality might end up being named after them in the wider world , rather than a certain Frenchman and Austrian like in our TL