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I guess this koala is hot?

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

People have been talking a lot about hot animals lately. There’s the hot duck, the hot cat from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and ..Gritty? Is Gritty an animal?

I respect the hot animal renaissance as much as anyone. However, I am extremely unnerved by this seductive koala, who was photographed by British photographer Ross Long on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, earlier this month. He later posted it to Instagram.

Is this koala hot? It is hard to say, but I do not believe the koala is hot in the same way that the hot duck, for example, is hot. The hot duck is hot no matter what he does — he will even be hot when he molts, just in a more waif-y, artistic way — but this koala is hot only because of his particular pose. Read more…

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Researchers map the koala genome all in the name of saving the species

sudshr47 July 3, 2018

Koalas, the tree-dwelling marsupials found in eucalyptus forests and woodlands across Eastern Australia, is not just a cute and fluffy fascination for tourists.
It’s also a perfect research subject for a group of dedicated scientists working t…

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It’s not often you see koalas swim, so here’s one paddling across a river

sudshr47 March 15, 2018

More famed for their ability to sit in a tree and eat eucalyptus leaves all day, koalas don’t strike as the type to be able to swim that far.

Well, you thought wrong. Take this video uploaded onto Facebook by Jas and Joes Long Road Home, where the marsupial can be seen paddling across the Harriet River on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

It’s no slowpoke either, despite its typically sedate demeanour, swimming as fast as many of us probably could. For the record, koalas can swim confidently, but can get easily exhausted. Read more…

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Cyclist stops to give thirsty koala dubbed ‘Slurpy’ a drink of water

sudshr47 January 24, 2018

It’s stinking hot in Australia right now. So much so that koalas are drinking water, which is something they don’t ordinarily do.
Cyclist Matt Sully was riding around the Adelaide Hills last Thursday when he came across a thirsty little guy who…

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Koalas fight it out on the road and all this driver can do is wait

sudshr47 December 22, 2017

As cuddly as they may seem, koalas can actually be pretty mean, especially to each other.
Marguerite Smith captured two koalas fighting on the road while she was driving near the town of Stirling in South Australia, posting the video on Facebook on T…