This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zakis.

Kowala. It's not a bear, but here in North America we've been so much taught

a bear that it's a hard habit to shake. It's in fact part of the

exotic animals of Australia which will all eventually try to kill you. However, this

particular koala looks to be high risk, a risk on kind of

investor. Coalo and train tracks don't go together. Now Jeremy, we've talked over the years about how you

have Kowala crossings on your major roadways. I think you string a rope from one side of the

other so they can swing across

and there was that one wonderful episode where a man saw koala struggling to

cross the road and he got up and went outside and walked the koala across the road. You recall that. Now we have a

koala who's decided that he's fascinated with trains. What happened?

Well, John, this actually happened not far from here in southern Sydney at the casula's train station

which is just to the southwest of the Sydney Central Business District and and

what it was just a normal warning it was basically

everyone was waiting for their train there waiting to get to work when they suddenly

noticed that there was this very little creature actually just on the other side of the platform.

So originally, you know, there wasn't any concern about it.

But then this very little koala decided that he would actually, you know, try and

join them on the platform.

So what happened was the quala,

I mean to his credit as well,

actually went to what's basically a crossing point

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