They are known for spending their time huddled up in the trees and looking down.<\/p>\n
But construction workers were stunned when they discovered two unlucky koalas stranded at the bottom of a 1.5m deep hole on a building site outside of Brisbane.<\/p>\n
The misfortunate, muddied marsupials were found in their predicament by construction workers in Morayfield, north of Brisbane, when they heard movement as they prepared to insert a wooden pole in the hole.<\/p>\n
On closer inspection, they saw the furry Aussie icons fighting for life and unable to escape.<\/p>\n
The pair were lifted to safety after being fished out of the hole using nets.<\/p>\n
But Wildlife Rescue Queensland said they were both in a poor way, having developed hypothermia and ingested mud.<\/p>\n
Both required intensive care and critical support on their road to recovery.<\/p>\n
The koalas, who have been nicknamed Fudge and Santino, were taken to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, where they received intensive treatment and monitoring for between seven and nine weeks.<\/p>\n
They are both now fighting fit and after making strong recoveries, have been returned safely back into the wild.<\/p>\n
In a post on Facebook, a Wildlife Rescue Queensland spokesman wrote: \u201cThanks to the dedicated team at Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, both boys have made a strong recovery and were able to be released back where they belong.<\/p>\n
\u201cStay safe, Fudge and Santino.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They are known for spending their time huddled up in the trees and looking down. But construction workers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124,23,133,99,6788,6794,6785,6276,2601,6789,2602,6793,6791,6796,6790,6795,6797,3170,379,119,135,120,6792,212,117,6787,6798,6786],"class_list":{"0":"post-5484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brisbane","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","11":"tag-brisbane","12":"tag-closer-look","13":"tag-construction-site","14":"tag-construction-workers","15":"tag-david-hannant","16":"tag-facebook","17":"tag-heard-movement","18":"tag-inc","19":"tag-male-koalas","20":"tag-marine-rescue-volunteers","21":"tag-metre-muddy-hole","22":"tag-morayfield","23":"tag-muddied-koalas","24":"tag-muddied-marsupials","25":"tag-news-headlines","26":"tag-newswire-news","27":"tag-north-america","28":"tag-northern-america","29":"tag-oceania","30":"tag-picture-wildlife-rescue","31":"tag-queensland","32":"tag-united-states-of-america","33":"tag-wildlife-rescue","34":"tag-wildlife-rescue-queensland","35":"tag-wooden-pole"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}