Koala prints cannot be distinguished from human fingerprints is this true?

Factual Questions
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Koala prints cannot be distinguished from human fingerprints is this true?

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Wouldn’t they be a bit smaller?

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They are very similar.

A single or partial print would be difficult to distinguish, if there was no expectation that a koala had access to the crime scene. The general shape is a little unusual. A detective might just assume they were looking at a stub-fingered person’s print.

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There is a plot for a bad detective show in here.

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Wow that would make an awesome CSI! Koala murdering posse! :slight_smile: And the whole time they’re going after a gang of midget bikers who just came in town, who turn out to be a red herring, and then the bikers are killed by the koalas and the csi people have to face off against them in the season finale!

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“Holmes! Do you mean to say that a koala has committed this crime?”

“You know my methods, Watson. When one has eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be true.”

– Murders in the Rue Adelaide

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I started posting before citybadger did. :o

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Koalas would never murder, though. Too strung out on their friggin opium. Seriously.

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That and they are soooooo cute and cuddly.

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Ah, but we all know that cute is more attractive, therfore more dangerous than ugly.

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“I live life on the edge, to the extreme. Danger is my middle name! Sky diving? Cliff jumping? Crocodile wrestling? All those things are lame! Me, I go Koala cuddling!”

gasps from the ladies

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It was the koala, with the rope, in the conservatory.

Stranger

Don’t be silly! Communism was just a red herring.

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I feel obliged to remind CalMeacham that the story he’s referencing was not a Holmes story, but rather by Poe.

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      • Well you prolly shouldn’t be picking on him knowing he had a Poe substitute for a Holmes…
        ~
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I can’t bear those type of bad puns.

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Cute, cuddly, stink and half the time they piss on you if you pick them up. But don’t tell anyone.

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Chronos, you should b aare of my methods by now, and that I never do anything ithout a good reason.

By naming it that, I bring up the idea of a Rue Morgue-type crime committed by a Koala, which is, of courase, bizarre and outre and therefore humorous. Until you have to explain it.

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In the wild they look like balls of fur in the gum trees. Not particularly cute and cuddly - just somnolent blobs. The ones that I have seen in wildlife parks have always been very ill-tempered and nasty.

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Too bad. I demand a writer credit and 10%.

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Murder in the Rue Morgue 2k5?