A photograph of a particularly well-groomed and photogenic koala has become an overnight sensation after it was posted online last night.
The Australian native was seen gazing at the camera with perfectly groomed fur and a small smile in Mount Lofty, Adelaide.
It’s photographer immediately shared her prized find online. ‘The most perfect koala. I will never get over living in a country where you can just stumble across this on a walk ten minutes from the city,’ she wrote.
‘The most perfect koala,’ a Reddit user posted. ‘I will never get over living in a country where you can just stumble across this on a walk ten minutes from the city’
The post attracted a plethora of other koala-loving Australians who united in their shared love of Australian wildlife.
I’ve been living here for all my life and I’ve only seen one echidna. You’re lucky!, one user replied.
‘I live within 10km from Adelaide CBD and get koalas in my yard,’ an Adelaide local said.
The post attracted a plethora of other koala-loving Australians who united in their shared love of Australian wildlife
Other reports of koalas ‘chilling in trees opposite my house’ and ‘making the strangest call noises’ flooded the popular thread.
‘Ah Adelaide,’ one former resident wrote. ‘So many cool animals there. Moving to Brisbane is just trash birds and creepy crawlies.’
‘Ah Adelaide,’ one former resident wrote. ‘So many cool animals there. Moving to Brisbane is just trash birds and creepy crawlies’
While most agreed the koala was certainly a contender for Australia’s most photogenic marsupial, others were less impressed.
‘It has nothing compared to a Quokka,’ one unimpressed person replied.
Others became more enraged. ‘These things are like strippers, they may look nice but they’re walking sacks of chlamydia,’ one particularly opinionated person wrote.
‘This is actually the least disgusting koala I’ve ever seen.’
Although opinions on the koala became divisive, the stir it created was acknowledged by all.
‘This is probably the most exciting thing that’s happened in Adelaide since we were colonised,’ an Adelaide local declared.
Another admitted: ‘My feelings towards koalas have been through a f*****g* roller coaster.’