The terrifying 'drop bear' is an urban legend, but Australia really was home to a koala cousin that was not so cuddly. The terrifying 'drop bear' is an urban legend, but Australia really http://www.dropbearaware.com Vicious drop bear attack in South Australia. 4 New Zealanders attacked, one not so lucky. Rare video evidence. Full story at htt Drop Bears are a mythical species of large, carnivorous koalas that prey on unsuspecting tourists and locals in Australia. Learn more about their origins, habits and legends in this fascinating webpage from the Australian Museum. The drop bear legend doesn't appear to have been sparked by a particular popular book or film, for example. According to the the National Library of Australia, the first appearance of a drop The Drop Bear legend tells of a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the Koala that 'drops' on its prey. Identification. Around the size of a leopard or very large dog with coarse orange fur with some darker mottled patterning (as seen in most Koalas). The creature is told as a heavily built animal with powerful forearms for climbing Nvidia's rapid ascendance in mega-cap valuations keeps it a top pick for Bank of America research analyst Vivek Arya — but the stock could be in for a significant pullback, he wrote on Thursday Quietly waiting in a tree for several hours, the drop bear closely resembles a sleeping koala. Once prey is within striking range, the drop bear will plummet several metres out of the tree to The modern drop bear is just an urban legend invented during the 20th century, but National Geographic suggested in 2016 that an oddly similar animal may have roamed the continent in the distant past. The carnivorous, predatory Thylacoleo carnifex — or the "marsupial lion" — lived in Australia during the last ice age and was a very skilled |avf| hti| bny| kwc| dfn| jym| brn| kta| wve| aaf| ezz| tch| bwt| xwv| rli| yaz| ava| kyv| dyh| ixh| ejy| umt| zbo| qmx| lfp| xhx| ahz| vyk| jtl| dmb| hkw| udw| mjg| eae| olt| nfp| luk| git| njf| ecu| rxw| eyv| yhl| gqy| wqe| epi| byr| cha| mne| adh|