{"id":99,"date":"2009-02-05T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2009-02-05T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:11:09","slug":"thirsty-and-hot-koala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Thirsty and hot Koala &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThings are going crazy with the climate these days and certain animals are coming up with new coping strategies. I was sent some photos yesterday about a Koala that got hot and thirsty in South Australia during its current record heat wave.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere are two photos &#8230; very cute (click for 800&#215;600 view)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/koala_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/koala_11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"koala_11\" title=\"koala_11\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/koala_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/koala_21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"koala_21\" title=\"koala_21\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nWhich reminds me of the song by Don Spencer <em>Please Don&#8217;t Call Me A Koala Bear<\/em> for all those who think this cutey is a bear!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a koala not a bear<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair<br \/>\nThe way that people always add a word that isn&#8217;t there<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a marsupial and proud of it<br \/>\nAnd there can be no doubt of it<br \/>\nI&#8217;m closer to a kangaroo than I am to a bear<\/p>\n<p>So please dont call me a koala bear<br \/>\nCoz I&#8217;m not a bear at all<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t call me a koala bear<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s driving me up the wall<br \/>\nIf your name was Tom<br \/>\nAnd everyone called you Dick<br \/>\nPerhaps you&#8217;d understand why I&#8217;m sick, sick, sick<br \/>\nI&#8217;m simply a koala<br \/>\nAnd I want the name to stick<br \/>\nSo please don&#8217;t call me a koala bear<\/p>\n<p>I live here in Australia<br \/>\nIn a eucalyptus tree<br \/>\nI&#8217;m as cuddly, cute and charming<br \/>\nas an animal can be<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t understand fair dinkum<br \/>\nHow anyone could think them<br \/>\nGrizzly bears and polar bears<br \/>\nAre anything like me<\/p>\n<p>So please dont call me a koala bear<br \/>\nCoz I&#8217;m not a bear at all<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t call me a koala bear<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s driving me up the wall<br \/>\nIf your name was Tom<br \/>\nAnd everyone called you Dick<br \/>\nPerhaps you&#8217;d understand why I&#8217;m sick, sick, sick<br \/>\nI&#8217;m simply a koala<br \/>\nAnd I want the name to stick<br \/>\nSo please don&#8217;t call me a koala bear\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are going crazy with the climate these days and certain animals are coming up with new coping strategies. I was sent some photos yesterday about a Koala that got hot and thirsty in South Australia during its current record heat wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}