🐨💧 A koala glued to a water source for a long time isn’t just having a drink: constant, excessive gulping is the classic symptom of oxalate kidney disease. When calcium-oxalate crystals block the kidney filters, water races straight through the body. On the outside you’ll notice long, desperate drinks, weight loss, lethargy and a dull coat; in the clinic vets find glitter-like crystals in urine, and kidneys altered by the disease, on ultrasound. Blood tests sometimes reflect rising urea and cr

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KOALA RESCUE Inc received a call from a most concerned member of the public, who reported that they had found a koala on the ground at the base of a tree. However, there was also a second koala involved. On arrival the rescuer located both a deceased adult female koala and a second adult male koala. It is always devastating to attend a rescue involving a deceased koala, but it was even more heartbreaking to witness the male koala actually holding and hugging the deceased koala. This type of beha

KOALA RESCUE - A local family set up a rescue operation of koalas on Kangaroo Island and brought them to their neighbors, who they say have a permit to care for native wildlife. While one of the koalas died on the way, the families says they're "just trying to collect as many live ones as we can." http://bit.ly/35u8LIw | WPLG Local 10