Video of Elsa the Baby Koala is the Cutest Thing You'll See Today

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This is Elsa, An adorable baby koala born in 2019 at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby NSW.  Since her mother couldn’t care for her, she was raised by a zookeeper. The video showcases the little baby koala named after the character Elsa from the movie Frozen. This is the cutest thing you will see today, I certainly thought so which is why I felt it was something that just had to be shared.

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Named after the Disney ice queen, the koala joey is being hand-raised in Australia by Keeper Hayley of the Australian Reptile Park. The 6-month-old enjoys warm hugs and cuddling. Elsa’s mother Irene suffered mastitis and so Elsa was left in the care of the Parks Koala whisperer Hayley who herself is a mom of three. Both Elsa and Haley share a strong loving bond as you can see from the video. They both love spending time together. Hayley said that taking care of Elsa was like having a newborn again.

The little Koala needed to be fed seven times a day that consisted of bottle milk and eucalyptus leaves. Elsa loved snuggling up with Hayley and also was habituated in climbing and sitting on Hayley’s neck and sometimes even cuddling inside her shirt.

Hayley from NSW Australia said that she usually lets her children name the baby animals in her care. It was a 4-year old who had just gone on a trip to Disney World and suggested the name Elsa from the Disney queen in Frozen. Elsa is one of seven koala joeys who were born in the Australian Reptile Park in 2019. Koalas are classified as endangered in certain parts of Australia due to habitat loss and the raging fires that have ravaged the country will dwindle the numbers even more.

The Australian Reptile Park has been actively rescuing native wildlife around the Aussie Ark wildlife sanctuary in the Barrington Tops that suffered drought and then, of course, the raging wildfires that consumed New South Wales, and  Queensland. 887% of Australia’s wildlife is endemic meaning that they can only be found in that country. Sadly a huge number of that wildlife has been obliterated in the wildfires where ecologists at University of Sydney estimated that the fires have impacted 480 million animals by way of death, injury, displacement and starvation.

The Australian Reptile Park and Aussie Ark along with Global Wildlife Conservation are working together to raise funds for helping wildlife in crisis.

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