🐨💧 A koala glued to a water source for a long time isn’t just having a drink: constant, excessive gulping is the classic symptom of oxalate kidney disease. When calcium-oxalate crystals block the kidney filters, water races straight through the body. On the outside you’ll notice long, desperate drinks, weight loss, lethargy and a dull coat; in the clinic vets find glitter-like crystals in urine, and kidneys altered by the disease, on ultrasound. Blood tests sometimes reflect rising urea and cr

HELPING HAND: A firefighter helped a thirsty koala drink water from a bottle on Sunday in South Australia while fires continued to rage in the region. The koala appeared in Cudlee Creek before the fire came through while the firefighters were there. The annual Australian fire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer, started early after an unusually warm and dry winter. Around 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land has burned with multiple people killed -- https://www.kh