Deep in the night the women carry the cage through the trees, setting it below a gray-skinned eucalyptus. Standing back, they spring the lid of the cage, and the koala dashes up the trunk and ...

Expecting to locate “a crook in the act”, the officers were surprised to find a koala “peering up at them from a dog bed beside the back door”, the police said in a March 27 statement.

The mothers may appear to be carrying their joeys on their backs or holding them in their arms, but the young ones are actually trying desperately not to be shaken off. The koala is an indigenous ...