Dead Koalas

It's not their fault they don't have feathers! Doesn't make them any less interesting. And just like the birds, it's good to know what species are about locally at any given time.

There's expertise within the club and beyond on most aspects of our local fauna. Let's tap into it.
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sburke
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Dead Koalas

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While walking in our horse paddock the other day Jeff and I found a dead Koala lying on it's back with its paws up in the air at the base of a eucalypt which had been cut down and suckered some time in the past. By the look of the decomposition we estimated it had been dead several months.

We then walked another sixty metres and found another dead Koala under a similar suckered eucalypt lying in the same position and at the same stage of decomposition.

It was very weird and distressing to know that a marsupial that we see very rarely around home had lost two of their local population at around the same time.

We wonder what might have happened to them?
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Mick Atzeni
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Dead koalas

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Steve

I don't have an answer for you but get in touch with DERM

13 QGOV (13 74 68)

(8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday - public holidays excepted)

.://..derm.qld.gov.au/wildlife-eco ... index.html

Cheers
Mick
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