Active koala filmed running across property north of Brisbane

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RUTH Barrat had never seen a koala run, but she had a front row seat to watch the spectacle unfold this morning.

Ms Barrat was at home on her Whiteside property north of Brisbane when she saw the koala sitting in a tree.

“We were just sitting here and I saw him in the tree. I didn’t give it too much thought, then it stopped on the driveway, looked up and did the bolt,” she said.

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“I’m normally at work but I’m on holidays. Another five minutes and I would’ve missed it and I wouldn’t have known, but I was just sitting here in my jim jams. I just couldn’t believe it.”

The koala had pace and tore across her paddock into a nearby gumtree.

“He just did this sprint. I didn’t know they could move like that,” she said.

The koala at a Whiteside property today.

“He went from the gumtree next door through our property to the gumtree on the left of us, which is the one he’s sitting in now. He’s been there all day now.”

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Ms Barrat said she had heard koalas around the property before but had not seen them.

“And we’ve never seen them crossing the paddock,” she said.

“Out here, you hear so much about the roads and accidents (killing koalas), and I just thought ‘how nice is that?’. We were just so shocked,” she said.

A koala carer arrived at Ms Barrat’s property soon after she posted the video online.

“She had the binoculars and she’s checked him out and he’s healthy as,” she said.