His stomach must be rumbling.
A hungry koala bear repeatedly slipped into a farm in Australia to eat $6,000 worth of seedlings grown specifically for his species — and was only caught when he finally ate too much one night and became too plump to climb.
“I noticed some of my seedlings were being chewed up and I thought it might be a possum,” Humphrey Herington from Gundurimba nursery in New South Wales, told abc.net.au.
“Every night, there would be a few more and a few more [missing].”
He soon caught the cuddly rogue — nicknamed Claude because of his sharp fingernails — in a food coma after one of his parties earlier this summer, he said.
Claude the Koala ate $6,000 worth of seedlings on a farm in Australia. Koala Bungalow
“One morning we went out to work and Claude was sitting on a bench next to all these plants, just wrapped around a pole,” Herington said. “Looks like he had a really big meal that night, so I guess he was too full to go up his tree.”
A worker at the farm snapped a photo of the prolific plant thief looking very guilty near a patch of seedlings bound for the “Landcare group,” which manages the green spaces that help koalas thrive, he said.
The animal was listed as endangered in the country in February 2022.
“I wrapped a towel around it and took it into my neighbor’s paddock 200 or 300 meters from the nursery and let it go into the trees,” Herington said. “But a few days later he came back.”
The farm planted trees bound for the wildlife park. Koala Bungalow
The wildlife park aims to help increase the country’s koala population.
The farmer has built a koala-proof fence to keep the mischievous marsupials away permanently.
“It was basically just a mesh fence with star pickets and it had a wobbly top, so if he tried to climb the fence he would swing back and hope that would stop him,” Herington said.
It was the first time in two decades that a koala had eaten his crop, he said.
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