Bouncing back from bushfire: koala Jeremy's year of living dangerously

Three-year-old Jeremy suffered second-degree burns in the Adelaide Hills bushfires, was hit by a car and attacked by a dog - but he lives to fight another day

You'd struggle to think of a more pathetic figure - a koala on an operating table, eyes closed and face-down in a scratchy towel, four paws immersed in containers of sodium chloride.

Jeremy the koala became a figurehead for the victims of the Adelaide Hills bushfires in early January after a photo of him receiving treatment for dehydration and second-degree burns went viral.