04-07-2019, 09:02 AM
How terrible, and sad.
My feeling is that the poor Koala was likely to have been killed prior to being screwed onto the pole. Unless the animal had been knocked out or was already dead, as it would be very difficult to do that with a living animal in terror and pain.
I used to find Crows strung up with wires and strings onto a fence. There would be a whole line of them in different stages of decay, so added at different times.
This was a horribly sad thing to find, but I discovered that farmers had shot them, then hung them up after they were dead.
It was intended as a deterrent to other Crows entering that area.
Farmers often did that around lambing fields.
I will add that didn't happen in the area I live now but in the mountains where I used to live.
My feeling is that the poor Koala was likely to have been killed prior to being screwed onto the pole. Unless the animal had been knocked out or was already dead, as it would be very difficult to do that with a living animal in terror and pain.
I used to find Crows strung up with wires and strings onto a fence. There would be a whole line of them in different stages of decay, so added at different times.
This was a horribly sad thing to find, but I discovered that farmers had shot them, then hung them up after they were dead.
It was intended as a deterrent to other Crows entering that area.
Farmers often did that around lambing fields.
I will add that didn't happen in the area I live now but in the mountains where I used to live.
