October 5, 2017
A handout photo shows Irene the
koala, who escaped from her enclosure at the Australian Reptile Park at the
start of her first mating season, impatient to find a partner
Australian wildlife staff needed
a crane to rescue a lovelorn female koala who escaped from her enclosure at the
start of her first mating season, impatient to find a partner.
Irene the koala was discovered
missing from her holding yard at the Australian Reptile Park outside Sydney
early Thursday, park officials
said.
The two-year-old was eventually
found stuck in a nearby tree after a "Houdini-style" escape through
an opening in her pen, they said.
General manager Tim Faulkner said
Irene had only recently reached sexual maturity and
this week marked the start of the annual koala mating season.
"It's not the first time
we've had a young female koala keen on finding a mate, and it's no coincidence
she made her way out of her yard to find a mate's yard," he said.
Park officials insisted Irene's
desires would be satisfied, but more prosaically.
She "will be introduced to
the correct male after 'selective pairings are made' managed by a stud
book," the park said.
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