Blue-Eyed Koala

By Miss Cellania in Animals & Pets on Jan 16, 2008 at 1:07 pm

150_FrankiekoalaKoalas, like some other animals, often have blue eyes as infants. But at nine months old, Frankie’s eyes never turned brown. He is therefore the world’s only known blue-eyed koala. His caretakers were so worried that they had his vision tested, and found that he sees just fine. Frankie, named for Frank Sinatra, is a resident at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast of Australia.
Link (with video) -via Unique Daily


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  1. Masked Bandit
    Jan 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    What a unique animal. It’s interesting how mutations that cause color variations turn up from time to time. Scientists really get confused when this happens in the wild and new populations of strange colored animals turn up.

  2. aware
    Jan 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    how do you test a koala’s vision?

  3. Miss Cellania
    Jan 16th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    I wondered that myself! I can imagine some eye technician hiding eucalyptus leaves at different distances to see if he recognizes them…


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