You want to hold her?” De Villiers picks up Ruby and hands her to me, the koala’s needle-sharp claws piercing my neck and face. I wince, and de Villiers, whose arms are crosshatched with ...

Male koalas have been seen with scratches, bloody wounds, and missing chunks of fur and claws. Darcy Watchorn, a researcher at Deakin University, spent three weeks studying a koala population in ...