This beautiful girl was sadly hit by a car and you can see by her nose that she was pushed face down along the road. She has a little pinkie (hairless tiny joey) in pouch. She had to have her left eye surgically removed as a result.
She is now here in my kindy in the last stages of rehab and I have cameras out at night so we can check and be sure she is gaining her spatial awareness with just one eye.
Hopefully after a week or two here, she will have passed all the tests and will be released.
Can she still be released out into the wild with only one eye? There are a few one eyed koalas at our local sanctuary and I don't think they will ever be released
@onewing oh yes, we've released quite a few over the years. providing she can adjust to the vision compensations she needs to get used to. and that's why she is here, so that she has a safe place to practice - and she is eating heaps and climbing up and down the trees. the main thing I've seen on the cameras is judging how close things are to her, and with practice she will adjust I'm sure
Oh, that's so sad that she was so badly injured, but really wonderful the work that's been done by you and others to heal her and prepare her for return. Wonderful job.
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