Joe Mangy is unconscious on a pillow on the table, appearing quite calm. The only indication of the illness battling the koala’s body is his red-rimmed, watery eyes.
A vet tech uses a stethoscope to listen to his chest while tubes snarl out of a mask concealing his face. His recovery is not progressing as they had hoped.
Joe Mangy, who is around two years old, was discovered roaming in the middle of a residential road eight days prior. He was sent here, to the hospital in the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, dazed and disoriented, his eyes almost sealed shut with mucus.
On the Gold Coast of Queensland, a park surrounded by rainforest is teeming with koalas like this one.
