Yawn!
While taking our Alaskan friend on a tour of Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in April of this year, we came across this yawning Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus).
It's a hard life, eating leaves, being photographed, occasionally changing trees...
See where this picture was taken.
View all photos taken: Wednesday, 26th April 2006, This photo: 11:47am
Beautiful shot. You don't see them moving around to much, so to get some action is great
Yep - I was even lucky enough to get a small video of one changing trees later in the day.
grunthos.vikings.homeip.net/gallery2/d/39038-1/Koala+clim...
(1.3Mb mp4 movie)
Instant fave!!! This is so terrific, David!
Is this a baby koala?
Hi Maria, No that's a fully grown koala.
For a bit of perspective it would have been about 2 feet from top to bottom (about 60cm) from memory. I'm guessing of course, because:
a) I didn't have a ruler with me and
b) it was 4 months ago and my memory isn't quite as good as it used to be ;)
lol...
thanks for letting me know:-D
more my kind of creature, I've heard that their breath is rather unpleasant though, not suprising on the diet they eat!
Soft, furry and adorable... things we don't see everyday!
Are you kidding? Have you seen the claws on those things? They aren't related to Dropbears for nothing, you know!
Great shot!
hey so nice to see... a good photo..... so cute,so lovely....
and you know what ? im laughing as i stared thi kind'a pic...
coz its just like my bigbro.... so nice to hug....
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