Baby Colada is one of 25 koalas to come through our clinic in just two days 😲. He was orphaned, not by the heat, but by a car strike 🚘. Someone hit Colada and his mum, Pina, and drove away. We do not know exactly when it happened, but we do know this. It happened just minutes from where SKER operates a 24-hour rescue service 🏥. One phone call🤳. That is all it would have taken to ease Pina’s suffering 🌈. When Pina arrived, her jaw was shattered. Fractured jaws are sometimes repairable. This

Leaf connoisseur in the making 🐨 🌱 Baby koalas, called joeys, can’t eat eucalyptus leaves right away. Their stomachs aren’t ready to handle the tough, fibrous leaves, and they don’t yet have the special gut bacteria needed to digest them. When a joey is around 6–7 months old, the mother helps it make the transition from milk to gumleaves by producing a special substance called pap. Unlike the hard, dry pellets of adult koala poo, pap is soft and runny. Pap is rich in protein and, most importan