Koala Eats Plants Worth Almost $4,000 at Nursery in Australia

The plants Claude consumed were being cultivated to enhance koala habitats in the area, as the species is currently endangered.

A mystery thief in Australia has been unmasked as a koala, responsible for eating seedlings worth thousands of dollars from an Australian nursery.

Humphrey Herington, who works at Eastern Forest Nursery in the New South Wales region near Lismore, shared that several months ago, their staff began to observe plants disappearing. Initially, they suspected that escaped goats or local possums might be responsible for the thefts.

He never anticipated that one day he would arrive at work only to discover an overeating koala, so full that it couldn't budge, surrounded by stripped eucalyptus plants.