Loud koalas
Oct 4th, 2011, 12:40 AM
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Loud koalas
I thought this was an interesting story.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/co...004-1l6mb.html
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/co...004-1l6mb.html
Oct 4th, 2011, 03:11 AM
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They also snore. My wife once woke me to say I was snoring. I replied that I don't snore. She said you are still snoring and then we realised that the noise was coming from the other side of the wall. It was a sleeping koala.
As well as this they have a cry like a baby.
As well as this they have a cry like a baby.
Oct 4th, 2011, 06:54 PM
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When we had our motel I had a guest checking out one morning and he said to me
'You know there was a wild animal outside our window last night' 'No' said I ' That would have been a koala in the tree near your room'
'Oh no it couldn't have been' he said 'I'm talking about a wild animal'.
Our guest took a great deal of convincing and in the end I told him I'd walk him back to his room and I'd bet my bottom dollar that a koala would be in the tree.
Sure enough a regular visitor 'Patches' was up in his usual spot. Our guest was just absolutely amazed that all the noise he'd heard the night before had come from that little creature.
My DH and I often tossed around the idea of just buying a stuffed toy koala and nailing it up in the tree. They don't do much during the day - we thought it was quite a good notion but never followed through. I guess we are lucky enough to have enough of the 'real' thing to keep folks happy.
'You know there was a wild animal outside our window last night' 'No' said I ' That would have been a koala in the tree near your room'
'Oh no it couldn't have been' he said 'I'm talking about a wild animal'.
Our guest took a great deal of convincing and in the end I told him I'd walk him back to his room and I'd bet my bottom dollar that a koala would be in the tree.
Sure enough a regular visitor 'Patches' was up in his usual spot. Our guest was just absolutely amazed that all the noise he'd heard the night before had come from that little creature.
My DH and I often tossed around the idea of just buying a stuffed toy koala and nailing it up in the tree. They don't do much during the day - we thought it was quite a good notion but never followed through. I guess we are lucky enough to have enough of the 'real' thing to keep folks happy.
Oct 6th, 2011, 05:43 AM
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Heck Diamantina, you obviously haven't come across a male in mating season in the middle of the night right outside your bedroom window. 'Twould wake the dead.
Stormbird's post made me smile, err, a koala is a wild animal, its funny how people think that if something looks cute and furry its somehow tame.
Stormbird's post made me smile, err, a koala is a wild animal, its funny how people think that if something looks cute and furry its somehow tame.
Oct 6th, 2011, 02:14 PM
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I found that out Alan, as a kid, very swiftly; climbed a tree in the schoolyard at Newport on Sydney's northern beaches to get a closer look at a koala, and wham, straight across the face. Those claws are sharp!
Diamantina, they're torpid in daylight hours usually, but at night have seen them shoot up a eucalyptus tree like greased lightning.
Diamantina, they're torpid in daylight hours usually, but at night have seen them shoot up a eucalyptus tree like greased lightning.
