Meet "Bowie"

[Matilda]

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A koala with an extremely rare genetic condition giving it two different coloured eyes has been discovered in Queensland after being hit by a car north of Brisbane.

The marsupial dubbed 'Bowie' has heterochromia - giving it a bright blue right eye while the left one is brown.

It is a condition similar to the one that helped define the unique look of the koala's namesake, the late music star David Bowie.

The young female koala was taken to Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital on the Sunshine Coast last month after it was hit by what was thought to be a car near Brendale, north of Brisbane.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-12/rare-koala-with--two-different-eye-colours--found-queensland/7589218


The little female is being treated at the hospital and will be released back into the wild.

[Person 2713]

1. Perfect! I see it

[shenmue]

2. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[NanceGreggs]

3. Adorable creature!

But for the record, Bowie did not have heterochromia - in fact, both of his eyes were blue.

Bowie was punched in his left eye in a schoolyard fight when he was 14. The injury caused a condition called anisocoria, which causes the pupil to always be fully dilated - giving the appearance of being darker, or "brown".

If you look at close-up shots of Bowie's face, you can see that the pupil of his left eye is dilated to the point where the blue rim of the iris is barely visible - but it is indeed blue.

[progressoid]

4. Cool but David Bowie's was a different syndrome.

Bowie’s case was different. His eyes were the product of a teenage fistfight that resulted in anisocoria, a condition in which a person’s eyes have different-size pupils.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003314.htm

[niyad]

5. squeeeee