Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Last year, Claude the koala made international headlines after consuming around $6000 worth of seedlings from a northern NSW plant nursery.

But the repeat offender knows what he wants, and despite koala-proof fencing and CCTV monitoring, he's been spotted feasting at the same nursery, this time in broad daylight. He's even told some of his mates about it.

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