Always hangin' around...

Roto Randy is a koala we see here almost every week around the Koala Hospital, even if he is not a patient of ours. Randy lives in the Nature Reserve where the Koala Hospital is located. He has his favourite trees around the Hospital where we often see him eat or sleep.



Randy is a handsome male around the age of 8. Even the girls think that he is handsome, that's why is name is "Randy":

In 2007 he was no patient of ours, but we still spotted him twice in the yards. He was enjoying the leaf in the yard an acted like he belonged in there. Normally a koala wants to get out of the Hospital, but not Randy. He noticed the girls and was quite interested in them. So interested even that he is the father of two Joeys born in the Hospital!
The Joeys both got released and we re-arranged the yards, so that no koalas can come in again. Especially Roto Randy. ;)



In the beginning of this year Randy was walking in front of the kiosk on his way to one of his favourite trees. He looked a bit shabby, so our supervisor decided to give him a health check. We caught him, checked him and released him again. There was nothing wrong with him.

Three months later he was running around at the bottom of the Reserve and we saw a dark spot on his bottom. We caught him again, checked him and unfortunately he was positive for Chlamydia. This time he stayed with us for two months, before we could release him again.

Since then he has been living happily in the Reserve. He doesn't seem to mind the visitors here. Even when a Tour is on, he will walk right through the group of people on his way to a tree. The tourists like to see him walking around here and some even think that we trained him to do it. :)
All the volunteers also enjoy seeing him around the Hospital and alway keep an eye out for him.

Here you can see Randy coming down and walk to the back of the Hospital to one of his favorite trees. There were a few tourists around, but Randy really doesn't care...



After a while he decided that the other tree (one of his favourites) looked better and he climbed in that one:



This lovely, kind and handsome koala is also up for adoption. Almost all our adoption koalas have been released and enjoying their live in the wild. Randy is a bit different then the others. He is living in the wild, but you still have a good chance that you will see him when you visit the Koala Hospital.
I think that is a good reason to adopt him. :)


Interested?
To adopt Roto Randy click here


Your adoption helps with the rescue and treatment of sick and injured koalas and release back to home range when possible; also the preservation and expansion of habitat, collection of information for research relating to habitat, disease, nutrition and habits of wild koalas and to provide educational material, to increase public awareness of all aspects of the koala.
It is a great present for somebody if you don't know what to give.

Yon