Lucky the miracle pup and her mother Adina have had their health checked
Adina had an emergency C-section birth with Lucky the only pup to survive
The pup weighed in at 615g and Adina s was providing milk and recovering
Today marked the milestone when daily health checks were no longer needed
Director Tim Faulkner said in a week or two Lucky will be out running around
Image: Vladimir Matić-Kuriljov
An image of a “baby platypus” has gone viral due to the fact it’s extremely adorable. The reality is, though we’d love it to be real, it’s definitely
not a baby platypus.
The original tweet by 660rd, which has since been deleted, received more than 180,000 likes and just shy of 24,000 retweets but if you didn’t read the replies, you might mistake it for the real deal.
why the fuck does a baby platypus look like that pic.twitter.com/VrDudem0kJ
Though it’s been deleted, a number of copycat tweets have re-uploaded it, spreading the adorable lie. This is why we can’t have nice things on the internet.
Cute and cuddly – the koala signifies hope after their natural bushland was destroyed during the bushfires.
Throughout the devastating fires, a suspected 1 billion animals were killed and a significant amount of koalas were among these numbers.
But since then, Aussie Ark have worked hard to create protection areas for the koalas who are also threatened by cars, disease and deforestation.
Securing 5,750 hectares of bushland in the Barrington Tops area, they established habitats with food trees, the exclusion of feral predators such as cats and foxes and protected areas away from roads.
This has significantly improved the population numbers and in time will provide protection to around 1500 koalas.