Oakvale Wildlife Park welcomes cute new koala joey Violet

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00:00So just behind me here is our beautiful little koala joey, her name is Violet and she's around

00:1110 months old.

00:12Usually they'll stay in their mum's pouch full time for around 6 months and then they'll

00:16start to come out around that 6-7 month mark before finally emerging completely like Violet

00:21here and then once they're a little bit bigger, usually by a year to a year and a half, they'll

00:25become fully independent.

00:26She's pretty similar to her mum actually, she's a little bit cheeky.

00:29So Tilly who is her mother is known for being one of our cheeky koalas, her and her auntie

00:35Palak as well are both known to be some of our troublemakers.

00:39She definitely loves very very fresh chips, she's a little bit fussy with her food and

00:43forest red gum is probably her favourite.

00:47She can see she's eating a little bit of leaf at the moment but yeah, she's a very very

00:50cheeky koala and she's very cute as well.

00:54She's definitely got her mum's ears and her appearance, Tilly, this is Freya and also

01:00Violet are some of our cutest koalas here at the park.

01:02So people from all over, we've had people coming up from Sydney, enjoying school holidays

01:06with us to see our beautiful koalas, coming in and doing koala encounters, stuff like

01:10that and we also have had lots of international guests coming in to see our beautiful koalas

01:14as well.