“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.
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The male marsupial became wedged between the car’s bumper and front grilles after it was hit crossing the South Eastern Freeway about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south-east of Adelaide on Tuesday night, said driver Loren Davis.
“Bear Grylls” is the new name of an Australian baby koala that was hit by a auto on a dark road this week but, instead of suffering a more tragic fate, the cub got lodged in the car’s grill and survived the accident.
“Once I’d got home, I pulled into the garage and turned on the garage light to see what the damage to my vehicle was and I saw the koala sitting there in the grill”, Davis said. So she drove home, thinking she’d killed a living thing. She explained that she had “no choice but to hit the koala” because of the cars behind her.
Bear Grylls has made a full recovery.
The driver thought the koala was dead, so told her fiance and his son to look at it and ran inside.
The Bighams have eight koalas over at their residence right now – four grown-ups that may returning from bodily injury, inclusive of Bear Grylls, and 4 youthful koalas growing up to effectively readiness before coming off.
Naturally, the animal was scared and growled each time Davis or her fiancé approached.
The koala eventually pulled himself out of the grille and hung out on the couple’s workout equipment while waiting. We didn’t would like him to really get lost up to the time when we’d noticed he was at okay. “He wouldn’t let us near him”, she said.
But her fiance arrived, found it was moving and called out “he’s alive, he’s alive”.
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In fact, it’s the second “grilled koala” in the past three weeks in the same area. He survived, too. Perhaps the real Bear Grylls ought to start taking survival tips from the lucky little creatures.
