had a visitor today

Colum Black-Byron

Stuart Chignell wrote:

I know you Americans think that teasing you is a national sport for us but I really wish you would believe us when we are concerned for your safety.

https://www.facebook.com/859027990775218/videos/986751444669538/?fref=nf

Aww, it's still a little one.

skeggley

Crikey how about the camera man, balls of steel or what!

Stuart Chignell

Ehh...no.

You can see that the film stops after it jumps. That is because he dropped the phone and ran. By the time he came back it was all over and emergency services weren't allowing any photography. :support:

Bodgy

This fella managed to get tree'd by the neighbour's pug dog. Personally I reckon the dog was lucky the Koala didn't decide to take it on, the dog might have learned a lesson if it had. Avoiding dogs is a good idea in general though, no doubt.
Only the third wild one I've seen, all of them within a 2km radius of each other.

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We removed the threat and after gingerly climbing down, he scampered away across the yard and up a decent sized eucalypt.

Stuart Chignell

Even koalas can give a nasty bite and their claws are pretty shocking.

DutyDan

Another fun Koala fact: They're riddled with Chlamydia if I remember correctly!

Stuart Chignell

Yep.

http://io9.com/5920738/you-can-accidentally-get-an-std-from-a-koala

Stuart Chignell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=16&v=fZYgg8c6KQU

Ronmaggi

I love how the link says "accidentally." Sure koalas are cute, just not THAT cute.

DutyDan

These visitors were in our hanging aloe vera pot last week:

And here it is yesterday!!!

they're ugly little buggers

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