A koala has been lucky enough to walk away with only a few scratches after he was hit at 100km/h on a busy highway and got wedged in a car’s grill. We didn’t want him to wander off until we’d seen he was okay. I thought the koala had died, but my fiancé ran out of the garage yelling, ‘He’s alive!’
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In a odd accident a couple of koalas have lasted being struck by motorcars at fast near Adelaide by wedging their own selves in front of vehicles.
“Bear Grylls”, which Bigham said weighed about 11 kilogrammes (24 pounds) and was around four years old, was recovering well and living in her home with seven other rescued koalas, enjoying a diet of fresh eucalyptus leaves.
She attempted to prevent knocking it but was in fact unfit…
“My fiancé Mike went to see him this morning and he was running around the koala rescue center’s back yard and seemed fine”, Davis added.
Ms Davis said she hadn’t spotted it until too late and was left with no option but to stay in her lane.
When Davis got home the animal, which she assumed was probably long-since deceased, was nonchalantly lodged in the grill of her auto; dazed, but mostly uninjured.
“I slammed my brakes on but another auto was behind me, so there was no choice but to hit the koala”, she says.
She ran to a neighbour’s house for help and a man used kitchen gloves to pull the koala from the grille.
The koala survived after being hit by a auto traveling about 62 miles per hour on an Australian highway. This happened two weeks ago.
In recognition of his survival skills, the creature has been named Bear Grylls.
Fauna Rescue koala rescue co-ordinator Merridy Montarello said it was a “very, very lucky koala”. “They had closed the [car] garage when they got home, so they had it [contained]”.
This amazingly lucky koala found itself wedged on the car’s grill with only minor injuries.
Koalas are a regular occurrence on Adelaide Hills’ roads and often display a casual disregard for traffic conditions.
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Koalas become more active between July and September in the lead up to the breeding season, and their on-ground movements can take place at any time of day but usually occur at night.
