Video: Koala has two rare eye colors

With light blue and brown eyes, the Australian koala surprised veterinarians because the rare genetic syndrome occurs only in one of thousands of individuals.

Bowie has two extremely rare blue and brown eyes.(Photo: Twitter).

Seeker on July 12 reported that the koala was called Bowie after the name of a famous male singer. The marsupial was brought into the Australian Zoo Wildlife Hospital north of Brisbane after being hit by a car.

The extremely rare syndrome that koala children suffer is called heterochromia , because the recessive gene inherited from parents affects the pigmentation of the iris of the young.