“We’re able to identify individual koalas from their poos,” says Nesbitt, who founded Canines for Wildlife with his parents. In late 2024, Max identified a new group of koalas inland of ...

Large swathes of the Australian marsupials are famously infected with the sexually transmitted disease (STD) and it's one of the leading causes of koala population decline. Finding a group of ...

Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.

"We have the largest colony of koalas or group of koalas outside of Australia.” The zoo grows more than 30 varieties of eucalyptus to feed the koalas who eat about 1.5 pounds of the leaves a day.

Among those animals are also some of the zoo’s newest babies: twin sloth bear cubs and two koala joeys. “I see guests with a lot more patience when they’re at the habitat,” Thomas said of ...