Ouch! This little koala ran across the road in heavy traffic this week.
Luckily this motorbike rider was travelling relatively slowly and slammed on his brakes in time. A little knock, but the little man lived to climb another day.
Not all encounters end this well on Australia roads.
Marine scientist Len Zell has recently published a book on roadkill, 'Wild Discovery Guides - Australian Wildlife RoadKill'.
Zell has encountered all kinds of road kill on his travels, discovering many intriguing things about Australia's environment from the animals he finds by the road side.
"It gives me an understanding of the diversity of our wildlife and how special it is and how much I don't know about it," he told the ABC.
Zell says the prevalence of certain species found on the roads to tell how populations are surviving in certain areas.
"It does give you a good idea of population density. The last recorded eastern quoll (on the Australian mainland) was as a road kill in Sydney and has never been recorded since."
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