Aussie DG, the drop bear

[Cervus elaphus]

To give you a hint as to how cuddly Koalas are, a principal cause of death in the wild is Chlamydia……

So….you can see how backpackers are taken by surprise when a drop bear appears in their orbit.

Depends on where they are. Australia zoo, not far from me, have clean koalas. They are kept separate from the Chlamydia clinic at the zoo (funded by Russell Crowe) where the infected ones are treated. One reason for an increase in the disease in the wild is the destruction of habitat ergo forcing more contact among the colonies.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Drop bears? You OZ guys need to quit hitting the Bundy so often. Ha! Ha!

 

[Cervus elaphus]

Drop bears? You OZ guys need to quit hitting the Bundy so often. Ha! Ha!

As somewhat of a rum connoisseur (real navy rum experience that is), Bundy is well down the list. It's too sweet for me. When I was in Jamaica several years ago, we were warned not to go drinking black rum. I don't remember it but was told they brought me back to the ship in a wheelbarrow. Never drink rum in drop bear country, it attracts them like flies to a roadkill and If you ever see a PH in the Territory with an umbrella, it's not to keep the rain off.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

@Cervus elaphus
Mate there have been lots of reports of yowies down in the Pilliga Forrest as well. Truck drivers will not even pull up in that area to sleep no matter how tired they are.
In the last 25 years the dreaded bloody drop bear has been moving from the coastal areas and can now be found as far west as Gunnedah.
@CBH used to work for the parks dept oround Griffith and may be able to give an update on these bastards. There was a story not long back a bloke in our area had his face savagely ripped open by a drop bear on his way home from the pub.
Those that know him reckon it was done by his missus when he got home pissed. He is adamant that it was a drop bear and said he had a photo to prove it but he lost his phone.
Visitors to Australia are warned about all our dangerous spiders an snakes and crocs but aren't told about dropp bears or yowies.
Bob

Bob down there on the south coast along with drop bears yowies and bunyips, do you also have the Yara-ma-yha-who?. If you happen to see a red frog-like person with a large head and suckers on hands and feet that's a Yara-ma-yha-who. Like drop bears they hide in trees and drop on unsuspecting travellers. I'm sure I've seen some down on the Bondi Beach or perhaps they were sunburned tourists. Glad I don't live in the Territory, they have the Garkain monster up there, complete with leathery wings. Of course it could be a remnant Pterodactyl or Pterosaur

 

[Dr Ray]

Don't know what an Aussie drop bear is?. In the simplest of terms it's a carnivorous Koala that drops from the trees onto the head of an unsuspecting passer by. Thylarctos plummetus is one of the many marsupials of Australia, and most native animals are marsupials for some strange reason. Carnivorous marsupials are not rare; the marsupial Lion of prehistoric times, (look them up in Wokeypedia) last century it was the Tasmanian Tiger (old stripey is now extinct - so we're told), and still roaming around and scaring people is the Tasmanian Devil, a dedicated carnivore. If you've ever seen two devils fighting over a carcass you'll get my drift. So imagine a drop bear twice the size of a devil and twice as nasty. The drop bears inhabit the coastal areas, in the bush, and on road signs. We know they like road signs because of the amount of bullet holes in them from local yokels. Drop bears are not related to drop-outs, drop-bys or drop-kicks or other pests, but they are related to the Wombat. I haven't mentioned the Yowie, a smaller version of Sasquatch which is found around Kilcoy in Southern Queensland, because nobody has caught one and we don't know if it's a marsupial or not. Cheers

Folks just remember Australians are very bad at tormenting hapless tourists.
Mind you you wouldn’t want to grab a wild koala
They’re rip your face off
koalas at zoos are “domesticated”
I like to tell tourists etc to be very careful with our wild life

 

[Cervus elaphus]

Folks just remember Australians are very bad at tormenting hapless tourists.
Mind you you wouldn’t want to grab a wild koala
They’re rip your face off
koalas at zoos are “domesticated”
I like to tell tourists etc to be very careful with our wild life

Absolutely, I've been growled at by a few down on the NSW/VIC border.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Bob down there on the south coast along with drop bears yowies and bunyips, do you also have the Yara-ma-yha-who?. If you happen to see a red frog-like person with a large head and suckers on hands and feet that's a Yara-ma-yha-who. Like drop bears they hide in trees and drop on unsuspecting travellers. I'm sure I've seen some down on the Bondi Beach or perhaps they were sunburned tourists. Glad I don't live in the Territory, they have the Garkain monster up there, complete with leathery wings. Of course it could be a remnant Pterodactyl or Pterosaur

@Cervus elaphus
I've seen plenty of pink tipped double breasred mattress thrashers at Bondi, also known as topples women.
Bob

 

[Dr Ray]

@Cervus elaphus
I've seen plenty of pink tipped double breasred mattress thrashers at Bondi, also known as topples women.
Bob

The mattress thrasher can be very very evil

Watch your wallet

 

[Cervus elaphus]

@Cervus elaphus
I've seen plenty of pink tipped double breasred mattress thrashers at Bondi, also known as topples women.
Bob

I thought they were called land-based white pointers?.