Brand new boy arrived yesterday, took my breath away! He has been named Bundjalung, in honour of the traditional custodians of this property. What a face :) Thank you so much for the beautiful comments on my photos
How many Koalas do you think you can support? It's good that word is spreading about this super place - all you have to do is pose occasionally & have your photo posted on the internet!
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Fabulous!! He’s so handsome too. I hope he settles there.
Thank you for all your lovely comments on my pictures KG and for your interest in our new pond. Yes, we are trying to do something similar to what you’re doing but with much smaller wildlife. Amphibians and other aquatic life is in serious decline in this country due to lack of habitat ( same old story) so we’re trying to create a habitat which we hope will encourage frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies etc. and all the water insects, and give them a chance to survive. It’s going well so far especially given that the pond isn’t even finished yet and it’s autumn. I’m excited to think what spring might bring.
@jesika2 great question! with the shocking winter drought we have just had, there has been a big toll taken on the young trees being eaten more than usual as the mature trees have dropped so much leaf.
This impacts what can be supported of course. At present the property seems to cope well with support a colony of around 10 koalas. Not all of those koalas are on the property every day, and all of them use more land than just this property.
the amount it can support will increase as the thousands of young trees mature, but with bad years like this one, their growth has been slowed a little, but the koalas have been supported so all is good.
Hope that answers, it's never a simple number :)
@joannakate a great question - males cannot just move into a colony without there being a sorting out of the hierarchy, and that means aggression. The male hierarchy in koala colonies is quite complex, so the levels of aggression vary widely depending on what is being sorted out :)
every male koala will take any opportunity to mate any given female. they don't 'own' females however so much as they take ownership of territory.
@carolmw yes there is a little raggedness on the edge of the ear, but that's pretty usual in koalas. The sun is shining right through that left ear and so it looks like there is some hair missing, but if you look carefully it is all there, just blinded by the light ;)
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Thank you for all your lovely comments on my pictures KG and for your interest in our new pond. Yes, we are trying to do something similar to what you’re doing but with much smaller wildlife. Amphibians and other aquatic life is in serious decline in this country due to lack of habitat ( same old story) so we’re trying to create a habitat which we hope will encourage frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies etc. and all the water insects, and give them a chance to survive. It’s going well so far especially given that the pond isn’t even finished yet and it’s autumn. I’m excited to think what spring might bring.
This impacts what can be supported of course. At present the property seems to cope well with support a colony of around 10 koalas. Not all of those koalas are on the property every day, and all of them use more land than just this property.
the amount it can support will increase as the thousands of young trees mature, but with bad years like this one, their growth has been slowed a little, but the koalas have been supported so all is good.
Hope that answers, it's never a simple number :)
every male koala will take any opportunity to mate any given female. they don't 'own' females however so much as they take ownership of territory.