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Drop bear

A tall tale of Australian folklore about a vicious koala-like predator that drops onto passers-by from trees, told mainly to tease tourists.

1967 CE · -35.30, 149.10 · status: hoax

The account

A 1967 article in the Australian Army newspaper mentions the 'dreaded Drop Bear', and it appears in later navy and Canberra press.

The sceptical view

It is a deliberate joke; it does echo the real Pleistocene marsupial predator Thylacoleo.

Connections in the atlas

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Drop bear
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