Koala siblings interacting in the wild in the You Yangs

In 2019, we watched a fascinating interaction between 2 year old female koala Lakorra and her 1 year old half-brother Bunyip.
At 09.00 on 3 January 2019 two koalas were found in the same Spotted Gum tree, both very high and within a metre of each other. At 10.30 I confirmed their identities as Lakorra and her brother Bunyip. They were still sitting quite close to each other.
At 10.44 we saw Lakorra jump to Bunyip’s branch, climb up and sniff his rump, then returned to her original location.
Over the next few minutes Lakorra returned to Bunyip’s branch, climbed up again and looked at him several times. She was very close to him, but didn’t attempt to touch him again. He was hanging on by one arm, looking down at her.
She climbed across to the next branch, and continued looking up at him. Her ears were pricked, eyes wide with interest. Bunyip remained focussed on her the whole time.
Four minutes later Lakorra started climbing down the tree. She reached the ground, sniffed the ground, and walked a few steps to the north. She sniffed the ground again, took a few more steps then stopped suddenly and looked up at the tree where Bunyip was.
Lakorra climbed a small Yellow Box tree beside her, just 1 metre from the original Spotted Gum, but almost immediately climbed back down again. She took a few more steps to the north, but stopped again on the ground, looking up at the Spotted Gum.
Bunyip had started climbing down. He descended the tree to the ground, while his sister Lakorra stayed still watching him.
Near the ground Bunyip paused, and Lakorra turned to face him. She then walked a few paces to the west, while Bunyip stared at her. She stopped, looking back at Bunyip. She continued walking to the west, and jumped up into a Pincushion Hakea tree. She climbed a few metres.
Bunyip climbed down to the ground, and followed her. At the base of her hakea he stopped, sniffing the trunk where she had climbed. He sniffed several locations on the trunk, even putting his hands up on the trunk to sniff higher. He looked up the tree towards her once, then walked off to the north.
Bunyip climbed a tree just 15 metres away from Lakorra. He was seen still there at 11.46, but Lakorra had moved on.
Read more here: www.koalaclancyfoundation.org...

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It looks extremely dry there