IIRC; koalas ONLY eat eucalyptus leaves, and indeed, they don’t drink per se..they get ALL their moisture from the leaves..the act of “drinking” water is not natural to them..
I think you're right, Ken. The fact that "Sam" drank three bottles of water from the firefighter speaks to how dehydrated the poor animal was. What the grumps around here don't seem to get is that stories like this actually help people, particularly children, affected by the same catastrophe. It helps by injecting some humanity and hope (not the false Obama kind) into an otherwise horrific situation.