Automatic Water Feeder Right when you need it most
(Sam the koala and David Tree)
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Poor Sam he koala, he just recently died because of the injuries he received during the fires. But kudos to the firefighter that tried to help him out.
*the*
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Man it’s too early..
Nuh uh! It’s 3 PM, and if you’re not in that time zone you’re unAmerican and you’re not worth my time!
*flounces off*
Love you, Eds 
Thanks froo! No hard feelings either..
Sam was found to be infected with a form of chlamydia that is endemic amongst koalas in the state of Victoria Down Here. She had major surgery to try to deal with some of the lesions (the disease manifests as cysts in the reproductive and urinary tracts), but it was not possible to do enough to relieve what would have been chronic pain, so she was euthanased.
Koalas do not usually drink water unless they are very desperately dehydrated and thirsty, and do not approach humans, which is why this picture was so astonishing.
Sam died of a disease you get from sex? Go go Sam!
Not really, of course, but that sucks. :/
It’s a disease that infects lots of koalas in Australia. Sam didn’t just get an STI.
I was going to say something about how this photo is adorable but not funny, but now after reading of Sam the Koala’s untimely demise I just feel like a jerk.
Well, it is adorable but not funny. That’s just observant, not jerky, whether that particular sharp-clawed fluff-ball is alive or not.
Thanks, I stand corrected. I thought it was due to the fires.
She died of complications with clamydia actually
It’s all over. The goddamned.
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So very sad. Sam, they discovered, was actually a female. I think this pic hit the hearts of a lot of people.
Actually, I think you will find that Sam unfortunately died of chlamydia – a disease which has very badly affected many koala populations.
Still, it was a great moment of compassion in the middle of Australia’s worst fire storm.
And so yet another Australian legend is born….
The Koala actually died after contracting chlamydia while in recovery.
Of course not according to the tabloids
This image wasn’t taken on black Saturday, anyway.
It was taken a week or two earlier at the Delburn
complex fires in the same region as some of the
fires that occurred on black Saturday.
Poor Sam. Poor all the other animals.
He was actually a She. And please, check your facts before making a complete arse of yourself. She actually died because of Chlamydia, she was undergoing an operation to remove scar tissue caused by Chlamydia, and didn’t make it.
Her death was NOT related to the burns/ Black Saturday Bushfires.
Sam the koala was a girl.
RIP little koala
Poor little Sam, rest in peace
oh poor little sam sad now
Wonderful. Now we not only have lost the funny, but we’ve seriously increased the sad. WTG, PK!
Seriously. Bummer, man.
I thought koala’s dont’ drink water, that instead they get all the moisture they need from the eucalyptus leaves >.>
That’s true, but if the eucalyptus trees are gone, they have to get water from somewhere. The proof? Look at the pic.
point made, and i finally read the highly informative post above ^.^;
And now you know better!
(They don’t drink a whole lot of water – apart from, as you say the moisture in what they eat, there’s also dew and raindrops on said food.)
Sam died. She was also female. Apparently she is going to be stuffed and put on display somewhere.
Actually, Sam died of chlamydia complications… Nothing to do with the fires.
Maybe if Sam wasn’t so slutty none of this would have happened.
It’s okay I’ll do it myself:
TOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOONNNN!!!!!
Don’t be too hard on yourself – in many areas, the damned things are breeding themselves out of a food source. Perhaps they should learn to cross their legs…
Ackshully, whilst I don’t wish any harm on them, toy koalas may be cyoot, but real ones are definitely *not*. They stink, they are wild, they have long claws that they are happy to use on humans, the will piddle on you as soon as look at you, they are not cuddly little teddy bears. Oh, and the NOISE they make during the breeding season – it sounds like angry walruses being put through a giant woodchipper, only not so musical. If there’s a couple of koalas getting it on in the area, NOBODY of any species is going to get any sleep.
Maybe instead of koalas crossing there legs, your mum should have.
Humans are the plague of annoyingness, not the koalas.
*their
Maybe you should not be such an idiot. Look at what he’s saying. They’re overpopulating. He has a point.
Don’t be a jackass, even if your brain IS the size of a small walnut.
We prefer macadamia. Smaller, with a harder shell =D
Koalas are a threatened species, how dare you insinuate that they are overpopulating. Sounds like you need to meet their close cousin, the Drop Bear.
Very simple. As soon as there are more koalas then there’s food, they’ll eat all the food, removing their foodsource, killing their species.
It’s not that complicated.
Er, what planet are you from, exactly? Threatened species? There are a number of programs operating where koalas are captured and desexed, in an attempt to control their populations so that local groups don’t starve to death. The other option is culling – it’s a last resort.
As to getting my mum to cross her legs, good luck – she’s a dirty old woman. If she was Catholic and not sensible about birth control, they’d be rounding up my family and sterilising us so we don’t all starve to death. We’ll have to bury her in a Y-shaped coffin.
Eeh. The reference to drop bears gives it away as a jocular post.
No, no! Drop Bears are real! They are! Boy Scouts are their preferred prey, but they’ll eat Girl Guides if they get hungry enough. They are drawn to eat foreigners, too, because they smell different to locally born people, so if you are a visitor to Australia, and you go camping, it’s important that you don’t wander away too far from the campfire (well, that’s what we tell Merkin tourists, anyway).
It affects a large percentage of the koala population in Australia. It has nothing to do with her sex life.
Everyone knows that. It’s called a “joke”, Tansy, and it’s a coping mechanism for many when they realize the world sucks and things die.
You are too young to be that wise, grasshopper.
Don’t koalas have really sharp claws? That guy is brave. And how did Sam get chlamydia, if that isn’t too personal a question?
From not using condoms, that’s how. It’s this damned abstinence-only sex education; it just doesn’t work, not even for koalas.
Remember – it’s never to early to talk to your koalas about sexually transmitted diseases.
YOu know what, if Sam had just kept it in his fur he’d be ok. Damn koalas and their loose sexual habits…
yeah, the guy is brave. If you try that with any other koala, it’ll probably remove your face, instead of a drink.
She died of cysts linked to the chlamydia virus which is, apparently, rife throughout the koala community…
No idea how it got there…
Look at the posts RIGHT BEFORE YOU. There was one on the first comment explaining Sam’s death, and one that was two comments above yours.
No one needed another explanation of how a koala died.
Take a look at the times both were posted…
dr handle says:
September 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm
OzG says:
September 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm
So, technically, it wasn’t before. It was at the same time. I can’t pyschically perceive what people are typing…
Wait, you came back to explain it a second time? That doesn’t make any sense…. What also doesn’t make any sense is that I didn’t notice. Apologies.
You’re taking the wrong vitamin supplements then..
WIthout wanting to undermine the emotion of the picture or the devastation of the fires, this didn’t actually happen during the bush fires.
“The footage which has captured the world’s attention – of volunteer firefighter David Tree feeding Sam water from a bottle – was in fact filmed prior to the deadly bush fires, during a preventative backburning operation in a fire at Delburn the previous week.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10556565
Oh right, like I’m going to take the word of a newspaper that’s from New Zealand! Just out of curiosity, are you in Australia? I’m guessing not since you quoted an article from the NZHerald. I leave for your inspection the following:
{http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/06/2648106.htm}
{http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/love-in-a-time-of-bushfires-a-koalas-story-20090212-85dp.html} Both of which are Australian.
Let me guess, you also believe that Paul McCartney died in ’66 and that the Beatles left clues in their music and on their cover art…yeesh. Lol.
Anyway, since you’ve made it painfully clear that you aren’t an Aussie, you are forgiven for being so damn wrong. Yes, its true that there are pictures of Koalas drinking from sprinklers, hoses, bowls, pools and even a cyclists water bottle that were taken just prior to the Bushfires, however “Sam” was rescued DURING the bushfires.
Ignore him, remember, they can’t even say fish and chips correctly.
The backburning was an attempt to control the major fire in the Delburn area the week before. In this fire many, many homes were lost but nobody died. At the time it seemed like a huge fire, but then Black Saturday happened a week later. My 23-year-old nephew fought this fire as a CFA volunteer. He is not fat, and neither drinks nor smokes. His young friends who volunteer with him are very much like him – just fine young people who regard it as their civic duty to volunteer.
Awwww very cute pic.
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Aren’t you supposed to be caretrolling, or did you officially switch to bitter trolling? And we’re all tired of it, but on the bright side, Koalas are ADORABLE.
And be thankful it wasn’t a cat again..
Great minds, Eddie.
They wage war controlling and manipulating people using propaganda for thousands of….
Wait, sorry, wrong expression.
Not a Freudian slip or anything.
Well I do agree, thank GOODNESS it wasn’t another damned cat…
Chlamydia isn’t just transmitted sexually, neither is herpes, it’s just those strains are the ones people remember. Hey I know some of you are just having a laugh but it’s very unfunny and it’s a horrible way to die. Please have some respect. RIP Sam.
If those strains are the ones people remember, then they’re transmitted sexually. Just most of them aren’t.
Anyway, different people cope in different ways, and I doubt Sam actually gives a crap whether we think she got laid a lot. In fact, I think asking people not to make joke about something is going to be fruitless, Jringo- because holding yourself back out of inhibition or that you don’t think it’s proper or respectful to make the joke is just stupid- while I agree there are some things that shouldn’t be joked about, they are, and some of them are funny. It’s reality.
Actually, I hope Sam got laid, a lot–monogamously, of course. And I hope it was fun!
“Actually, I hope Sam got laid, a lot–monogamously, of course. And I hope it was fun!”
There are times where it ISN’T fun?
VG, are you guys TRYING to make me retain my virginity?
Lots to be said for waiting for a partner who won’t point and laugh when you drop trou, or give you a nasty infection, or tell everyone in school the next day, or lie about contraception, or… Solo activity is preferable to some of the alternatives!
Oh, I will have to hurt someone if you keep this up.
-Starts to cry like a little girl to make VG stop, then realizing she’s a college professor, stops crying-
You know you would TOTALLY just be even worse if I did that.
Speaking of, what do you teach?
I teach blood & guts biology. And enjoy sometimes making the students twitch a bit in the process, I confess.
If you didn’t twitch, gag, or full on puke in biology, you didn’t get into it enough!
I dissected the fetal pig and didn’t puke…
Did I do something wrong?
You don’t have to puke during dissection–in fact the teachers prefer that you don’t. Really! But if you spend any time really looking into how the body works…and then diseases, you WILL get grossed out every now and then. I still queeze over eye stuff and hand injuries, after doing this for years!
There are only four species that have sex for pleasure, and koalas aren’t one of them.
I believe it is only two- Dolphins and Humans.
Bonobo chimps as well, though I think it’s more of a social-interaction thing.
But I guess who knows why chimps have sex? According to studies some people don’t even understand why WE do
Gee thanks for setting me straight on that Igor the Whatever. So next time there is a deadly bushfire in your state and the creature that becomes a symbol of hope in the face of devastation then dies of a terrible disease, I’ll be sure to poke fun and laugh my arse off just because of this valuable lesson you have taught me.
Sorry… all I read from your post was “Not Again’s Sh*T again.”
Not so clever Maxie…
It wasn’t meant to be clever.
Clever? Not so much.
Accurate? Indubitably.
yeah its Def to early…Probably just someone ignorant…
HAHAHA FIRST!
No one got this yet? Well, all righty then. *cracks knuckles in anticipation of Ordinal Post Rule*
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I heard that koalas are actually very vicious!
PLEASE STOP SPAMMING.
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*Hands Tygor a passion fruit-colada*
Calm down sweetie. Save the burnination for a real troll.
Nope, this is a bloke from the CFA – largely volunteer crews. Definitely NOT worshipable in a sad, giggly hormone-driven way. I speak from appalling experience. If I didn’t know better, I’d wonder if the acceptance criteria for the volunteer force didn’t include being overweight, over 40 and smoking like a chimney.
Would you prefer that no one helped out? What exactly do you have against volunteers? Without them, things could have been a lot worse. In fact, Volunteers are the ones who should be ‘worshipped’, they don’t get paid for it, and they do it anyway, they are better people than most.
The person have a good feelings for animals also. Water is the basic need of all person so its very necessary..
I wanna give that guy a hug^_^
hey everyone! over here! Look! A real Australian! come and poke fun!
YAY!
This Photo is copyright by the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Australia.
And your point is?
What a friggin joke – this photo (and accompanying footage) were taken by firefighting volunteers and are the copyright property of NO ONE. Just like every other piece of volunteer media the DSE tries to claim ownership over.