Hungry Koala Walks Up To Couple Asking For Help | The Dodo 

I like to imagine its a 40 something old in its own lifespan and some humans picked him up to be treated like a child. And he was hesitant but begrudgingly excepted it. 😂

And holds the door handle like a human too 😂☺️

Tidier than many children as well!

@@christophersusi4632 Not true

It's a coke addict finally getting it's fix

I thought that he could ve grieving all his family and relatives. At least, at the rescue he will make friends. Physically he looked in a relative good shape.

Yet dehydration & hunger = severe ill health & Likely Severe Headache. We must consider headaches more often with all animals. (Animals’ headaches reminds me too of the terrible constricting “shirt” claimed to calm dogs, which forces shallow breathing. Likely it is inflicting headaches that cause dogs to be still. It hasn’t been ruled out.) I’m also thankful for the kindness in this video for the defenseless. Nothing is more important

I said the same thing after looking at his face

That’s so sad to think he could’ve watched them burn… 😭

@@peaceshepherding529 what the hell are you talking about?

He sat there all night the next day the found him at bottom of tree sad still omg

Poor little thing. God bless him/her ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

He was probably still suffering from the traumatic effects of being trapped up in a tree, when the forest fire was burning all around him... gotta say, I would not be in a rush to be up in a tree again any time soon, after almost being burnt alive.

Yeah if I found that thing I’d never let it go lmao

​@@tula1433 They're so friggin' CUTE

I saw a pic of a koala in what was a forest, but it had been cut down by illegal logger operations. You could see the look on his poor face wondering where his home went. It was tough to see. I still wonder what happened to that little guy.

@@JoeVideoed Awful. Animals just minding their own business and then losing everything in the blink of an eye. It's the confusion that really breaks my heart. They remind me of innocent small toddlers who just can't comprehend. I'm glad there are people out there, probably including those of us who are commenting, who care enough to help out when they can though.

Funny how humans have more empathy for animals than they do for each other. People see the human equivalent of that koala on the street all the time and they just walk on by. Ain’t no dodo think piece on that is there

@@awlmut Funny how there can be a thousand different channels dedicated to humanitarian efforts towards humans... and yet, there will always be those select few, barging into the channels specifically dedicated to vulnerable animals... leaving vacuous, pseudo-noble comments to deflect from the content at hand. Clicking on a Dodo video, knowing it's going to show animal-related content and proceeding to complain about the lack of empathy towards humans. Someone's got way too much time on their hands, me thinks. Precious time that could be spent helping the aforementioned humans, perhaps 😉 By the way, I live in a neighborhood sprawling with famished cats and dogs (and coyotes). I've yet to see a single person hand them a few bucks or buy them a meal. I have, however, seen human equivalents receive such acts of kindness though. Funny, isn't it.

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You know, back in the day adults would say to kids that animals don't feel pain / emotion so they wouldn't be upset when the animals went to be slaughtered to feed the family, now we're living in such a surreal time that so-called "scientists" have convinced the masses that animals don't suffer. What a world we live in.. If you want to talk REAL science though, most animals, just like us, produce opioids in their body to combat serious and especially long-lasting pain, even such simple creatures such as earthworms produce these opioids, so yes even an earthworm feels pain & has enough of a mental capability to suffer! Animals also self-medicate by consuming many different plants, from opioid-containing ones to psychadelic mushrooms.

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@@repentandbelieveinjesuschr9495 Amen 🙏❤️🙏

Stop projecting human behaviour on animals .... its bs ...

@@kingwacky184 oh, that's really interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks!

Koalas dont live in families, they are largely sedentary asocial animals. Don't anthropomorphize animals please.

​@TRUTHANDCONSEQUENCESWILLNEVER No, Koalas live in large groups. Each Koala has a tree next to the trees of the other Koalas in a tribe. They're tribal.

I know! And with his little hand on the door thing omg! So darling, poor angel 💗 So glad these lovely folks helped him!

They were pretty clever actually. If the koala is not where the leaves are, then it must be brought to leaves.

He was so cute, sitting there. But I'd rather not have had those catastrophes we create, so that little guys like him lose their home and family.

@@cnj67 We dont create them. Forrest fires are an inevitable part of life, they are meant to happen. They happen when the forrest becomes too dense, to make room for new growth. We can however PREVENT forest fires by cutting trees and creating clearings. When nature decides to clear some space, she does it very dramatically. When we allow proper logging and forestry to help by cutting down trees and creating clearings, then Mother Nature doesn't have to do it herself like that. That is why cutting down trees when necessary is so important.

@@martineshamzin7535 Yeah, that's true. AND not causing the overall temperature to rise.

This is a physically sick wild animal. Not a human child or a pet.

Yes he needed help to young to go it alone

@@debbieacushing5536 I know a sick animal when I see one. Too weak to eat, too dehydrated to drink properly etc. he was about 2 days from fainting and never waking up, but the last f.. thing he needs is a "family". A family will ruin his instinct and mentally handicap for life.. thus why the owner of the camping ground told them to find a good forest and leave him, not a burned out trunk in a desolate landscape without treating him for dehydration and lung damage. Professional help for animals is about treating physical damage and fucking off from the human race, which includes me and you 🥲

@@server1ok I think they meant a koala family not a human family.

@@HippoActivists Exactlty!

How could people allowed this and how they can think of such thing like WAR still?

It is truly terrible what happened there.Those fires were not of natural cause ,but produced with the help of DEW .Have read a testimony of smn who had almost saved his property when he realised they were bombed with energy and fled in a hurry ,understanding that strange and evil things were happening , impossible to deal with.

Uhm that sound like specism. Humans are not superior in anyway, maybe we just have more power. Our obligation is just respect the natural law and the rights that any sentient being have. Humans have nothing to teach to others species.

for example, look what the humans make to enviroment.. how many koala are died from the fire powered by global warming? In my opinion that is being human. Kind people likte that of this video is more an exception

We have to stop destroying it first.

@@OverdramaticAngel Exactly.

@Human : You really believe we are “more developed” than they are? When all we do is destroy and fight? We do not have their instincts and intuition, their understanding when evil is present, their capacity for loyalty and love, their immediate knowledge when someone is ill, unhappy or pregnant, etc. All that we humans have is more ability to do as we please.

He probably also was in shock and quite depressed. Who knows. He might have watched as his tree and his family burned. That can be quite traumatizing no matter what species one is.

It's what most people would do- just throw him on a tree and leave. I loved that these people checked back and went the extra mile to assure his survival. Beautiful ❣

@@Kit1128 Agreed!

@@victoria7t That little head/shoulder drop at 2.10 was just pure sadness but then 2.39 & he realises they've came back for him 🤗

@@lynnski7639 Totally agree-it was so heartbreaking!

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These kind of people are the reason we havent turned this world to the mad-max version. Yet.

I know I literally teared up watching it.

I had tears in my eyes😔

Me too😢

Happy that they continued to assure he was OK by taking him to a doctor. Most people are like the campground owner and would have just left him in that tree and never checked again.

They found care for him for 2 or 3 days. Wonderful. Wish they had cared for him longer.

I like your attitude!🙋🏻‍♀️🌺🌸🌺🌸

@@Kit1128 You dont know "most people".

@@rattified How do you know?

No, it was kicked out of a tree by another. Just needed to find it own. They get depressed and then eventually get back on their way. You do realise that if the couple is still in the country they can be fined for touching it?

@@michaelversace456 Oh please, that fine is probably to stop people going up to koalas and just touching them and annoying them and potentially harming them. I doubt anyone is going to fine this couple for trying to help the koala and bringing him to a hospital. They tried their best and the koala was going to be released later.

@@carrela1000 Oh dear god no just no. People get in trouble for handling the ones that take up residence in their own backyards. You are just wrong.

@@michaelversace456 Not the same. While that is stupid that people get fined for trying to remove koalas from their own backyards (as long as they tried to do it safely) or most people would call animal control or something but still can't see anyone that would willingly fine this couple. Even so, glad they still decided to help

@@michaelversace456 you are miseducated

@Johnsonconnor stop trying to con women.

Yes, it's tough for them and they are becoming endangered 😞

Gentle creatures?? That's the Australian Drop Bear. It will kill you when you least expect it. Extremely dangerous creatures.

If anyone ever asks what human's purpose for existence is: That's it! To take care of the planet, help it's inhabitants and nature in general. But we fail so miserably over and over...... Greetings from Germany.

@@morganfreeman5972 Koalas are typically docile herbivores (and are not bears), The drop bear does not exist; it's just a myth used to scare people🤣

That's what I was thinking. This koala was traumatized.

He’s so cute ❤

Animal transport crates/boxes may seem cruel, but at the end of the day driving a car is dangerous enough without a wild animal freaking out in an enclosed space and potentially causing a car crash that would likely cause its own death, the death/injury of the car diver/occupants and anyone the car happened hit too in the crash. If you are going to do something as risky as bringing a completely wild animal into a car you have to be considerate of the other people on the road as well as other occupants of the car. Even a domesticated animal that has not been mistreated or abandoned can still go a bit nuts inside a car and cause a crash. What's the point in being free range organic nice when the animal ends up dead anyway because you failed to have the sense to be safe? What do you tell the families of the people your car killed or mutilated in the crash? "Oh yeah, I was thinking of playing it safe and keeping him restrained while we were driving on a public road - but then I saw his sweet little face and I just thought f**k it, you only live once!" 😑 Unless you are extremely well versed with an animal and/or you have a barrier to protect the driver you should not do this - it's dangerous for you, it's dangerous for your passengers, and it's dangerous for the animal too.

I couldn't do your job....the first time someone brought in an abused animal, I would have no choice but to find out who and where and I would be in jail quite soon afterwards.

@@mnomadvfx Always one of you in the comments that has to be different and point out the obvious.

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Well that would be great if everyone was ,but it's not. Thankfully there are millions who are just that caring like these people. 🐨❤️

Not everyone lives in places, or wants to save every wild animal that could give them a fatal infection,or kill them if they choose to go near one that isn't like a koala or deer

@@kyledeguzman5196 no one said anything about wild animals only. Plenty of stray cats and dogs that get mistreated every day!

@@gottalovegabe1176 And nobody can save them all because we have jobs and money to make,and families to protect, animals that don't are saved by different shelters don't matter up until they're in a situation where they could get killed,or where they have to be on their own and defend themselves

@@gottalovegabe1176 Everyone said something about every animal, try running up on a lion that is put hunting for you and many others,and see how trying to rescue it works out for you, because unless you raised it,and it trusts you, you'll just get killed faster than you could save its life

So it was nor just me then...

Those bush fires that happened in 2020 were truly heartbreaking. Can’t get over the images of hurt kangaroos and Koalas trying to get away. 😢😭

Are they speaking German?

@@RedDragon-yq7ro yes

I'm Belgian and I sit here crying too. I don't get the connection you Aussies have with koalas but I can imagine that this is brutal. Much ❤️ from across the globe.

( Hopefully they'll keep him at some kind of Koala sanctuary )

Ya The couple helped , he will be at the sanctuary/hospital … they’re going to make him strong n well and he’ll be released to a good area. Follow your instincts guys, like this 2 couple did.

2 people/couple 😑

Correction : "We have to be like these couple". it's useless if you won't to be one of them like what you said.

start from yourself, not someone else.

@@dragulia_venaro touch grass dude

@@dragulia_venaro Why go negative? Feel indicted? you know what was meant. Great couple. Just give them some credit. ENVY.

WONDERFUL people...and a great rescue. Poor little koala, obviously missing the warmth of family 😥, normal socialisation. BUT at least now he...or she...is headed in that direction again. 💛💛

Hello Angel, how are you doing

The view of the koala broke my heart😥😥😥glad to see that people still care,still have a heart...may God bless them abundantly🙏❤️😇

​@@DeeDee-el8bd Amen to that, truly lovely people. 🥰🥰🥰

Dude, koalas are solitary animals. They don't live in packs. This animal was dehydrated, hungry and probably in shock from the bush fires.

@@lmaree200886 I never said koalas live in packs! I said this behaviour in seeking out humans is out of character for koalas (and any wild animal), and shows how traumatised the poor animal was.

@@glamdolly30 You believe it has a family but koalas don't even know the concept of family! The males are so dumb that they will even kill their own offspring, male or female, if they come into their territory once adults. Also I don't know what video you were watching but this koala didn't seek these people out at all! It wandered onto the road, they gave it water then grabbed it, that guy is lucky to not get scratched by its claws the way he picked it up 🤦‍♀️ A rescuerer generally covers it's head with a towel or blanket then pick it up. If the koala wasn't burnt or injured they should have just left it alone or until other wildlife rescuers went out to monitor the situation in the area. I have been told this myself by WIREs and RSPCA when I've seen injured animals. You note down what area they are in then call them up and they will have the professionals come out to catch them and give medical attention. These two are certainly not heroes but ignorant fools, just like you are believing they did something right by taking a protected species from it's territory. Common sense is no longer common unfortunately!

I have more of a heart for animals than I do for people, too. People are harder to love sometimes, but animals are easy to love.

Shut up

Same

100%... I'll choose animals all day long over people, even children cause they too grow up and usually aren't very nice adults.. Animals need us more for our voice anyway...

@@JaneCooper190072 Your comment is spot on. Thank you!

All animals feel. I still eat em though

No one ever sad animals dont have feelings. Where did you hear that? All living creatures have feelings and emotions.

@@rick_terscale1111 loads of people say thay

@@thenarrator1984 because we are consumers

@@Theendisnearasuouknowit nah because I like the taste and meat is healthy.

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@@emerdigiorgio3594 Your emojis express how I feel and much more cuter! Thank you.

I hope and pray your day and rest of your life is good.

New phrase. Koala Leaves. It's great! They are very, very picky about the leaves they eat, so you seem to have chosen very well. I remember hearing about a German person in the UK asking for where they could find the.. err... "food weapons?" to mean cutlery, and when I think of the word cutlery, I think of 'food weapons' nearly always. I love human brains and what they do with language :)

@@nuttibuddy Thank you Linda. I hope you're blessed with a fabulous life - meaningful, yet fun with family and genuine friends.

If you take into accord that koalas only eat one type of eukalyptus, koala leaves is kind of better to now exactly which type of eukalyptus XD

@@lyaneris 😀

@@lyaneris uh...they actually eat close to about 40 different types, with preference depending on the region. If they only ate one type, you'd only ever find koalas in one tiny region of the country.

@@dragon_toad Great, my childhodd is ruined XD. I think it's still valid for a quick distinction.

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Of course they are being taken care of. Did you miss the Koala 🐨 Hospital that was set up, along with several others to help with the bushfire disaster. Shame on you🤥! Michael 🇦🇺

This should be the #1 Comment.Thanks to all those who care and help those who need it

You don't take wild animals for rides!

Total toll!

@@andreasart1417 I'm a toll? Aww

Very sweet story lovely people I hope 🙏 the poor koala 🐨 gets better

Yes. The Koala leaves was so sweet 😊

would have just kept the little guy lol

@@321video0 that would be tempting lol. They are so cute!

@@321video0 Then you'd lose your house and be ostracised amongst Australians. They aren't pets.

Actually no they shouldn't. Koalas carry Chlamydia.

@@annettereed6146 You ever hear one sound off? Sounds like demons from Hell, seriously!

germans ?

@@Orbital_Dew what has that got to do with anything? They are clearly extremely caring, gentle people and that's all that matters.

​@@Orbital_Dew Yep. lovely couple.

The majority of people in the world are good. It’s just the bad ones are the loudest and most destructive.

@@LizzyGiggles what type of neighborhood did you grow up in? "Gentle", this isn't some tv show where everyone is about letting any human whoop their ass, and telling some dumbass policemen, this is the world of eat or get ate, or beat or get beat, most importantly kill or be killed, if a lion ran up on any humans child, the real rational thing would not be to run,or be "gentle", it would be to defend your fucking self and family. Wtf world do you think this is if you think everyone that's "HUMAN" has to be "GENTLE"

Hello Carla, how are you doing today

I agree. The koala saw death and desolation all around him. You can see he perked up a bit when he was in the car. He got happy and when they left him by the tree, he was distraught all over again. Poor baby. I'm glad he was saved.

The little bear was was wanting a human to care for it probably lost its mother and needed LOVE ❤️.

@@rebaeasler yes exactly x

@@rebaeasler Why do you call them bears?

@@raymondbabb1970 some people call them that! It's common enough even if it's inaccurate. In German it's the same, actually (the German couple here doesn't do it though).

So very true. Just sitting in front of the tree. Lost and wondering.

What are you on about? Koalas are solitary animals mate.

@@michaelversace456 Totally missing the point. Nevermind.

@@michaelversace456 Read between the lines...

Unless that was a eucalyptus tree, he wouldn't have been particularly happy in it. That said, it was smart that the visitors decided to feed him the appropriate food, provide water and get him to a rehabber. The koala was showing signs of physical stress and a rehabber would know how to help him the best. 👍

Hello Patricia, how are you doing today

Beautiful German couple. Noted.

Germans are usually good in other people's countries. Usually.

Yeah, I don't know why they listened to that stupid campsite owner

He should have been fine if he was in the right place.

I hope the zoo, will help him.

At least it needed a check-up. They did the right thing for this cutie.

Actually, the camp site owner was correct. Koalas often get kicked out of trees (they can be quite vicious). They have to go find (and claim) another. They'll sit there in the doldrums for a while, but eventually, they'll wander off to find a tree of their own. I'm not saying that the couple did the wrong thing in this instance; taking him to a hospital was the right thing to do, given the fires. I've had to relocate a few Koalas in my time, and typically, moving them to the nearest bushland area is *exactly* what you're supposed to do.

Unlike all the cruel heartless idiots who comment about how animals don't have feelings. I think they're projecting because psychopaths don't have feelings for anyone but themselves.

@ Mary Music beautifully said thank you ❤️

Very true!

Well said. Most ppl wouldn’t want their vacation interrupted and these ppl stopped everything to help.

@@saltycat662animals have some feelings. but there is an alarming amount of delusional fanatics that humanize animals and worship them. so it goes both ways. animals don’t know mercy, ethics, morals.

Ich fragte mich gerade, ob dieses Paar aus Berlin stammt, oder zumindest der Mann. Ich schien Ausdrücke im Berlinerischen aufzugreifen, 'keen', 'oof' usw.

@@Dancis07 ja könnte sein💁🏽‍♀️ich bin aus der 🇨🇭☺️👋

Lol they are considerably less cute when they get territorial over a tree 😂 This one tho didn't seem cute so much as extremely depressed even after being fed and watered.

@@mnomadvfx yeah thanks for that kill joy

@@mnomadvfx you must be fun at parties 🙄😒…

I hope they took he / she to a ranger station for safety.

Same. The thought of it was almost too much to bear. I am a firefighter and this is something we NEVER get used to. Seeing harmed animals is enough to put even the biggest man on his knees.

There are some fires here in the U.S., California and around the world, the Amazon, etc.

Those fires weren't by accident either