Starts at about 00:30.
(Source)
(Source)
Brisbane's Lone Pine Sanctuary senior wildlife officer Karen Nilsson said the female koalas, which are normally kept separate from the males, express a readiness to mate by engaging in sex sessions with other females.
"When they are ready to be with a male, one of the things they do to express that is to pretend to mate another female," she said.
"As what happened with Sprite and Saffron, they often start in one position and then swap so they both get a turn." She said Sprite, the instigator of the action, was one of the smallest koalas in the female enclosure, only weighing 4.5kg. Her accomplice, Saffron, weighs in at more than 6kg.
Ms Nilsson said Roddick had been lucky that the koalas weren't as vocal as they normally were, and that only two of the koalas were involved.
"He is pretty lucky actually because normally they are pretty noisy, so that definitely would have drawn some attention - they can be pretty vocal."
"If they are all in season we have seen three or four of them together just going for it."
News Source
No comments:
Post a Comment