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Re: Heat Wave in Melbourne to hot for koalas
Maybe next summer Bigfoot will appear here dying of thirst.
LOL....that would be awesome!!
Re: Heat Wave in Melbourne to hot for koalas
Bigfoot... I thought Australia had werewolves.
The Howling III paradox.
Our Bigfoot equivalents in Australia are the "Yowie" as well as the "Bunyip".
According to wiki:
Yowie
Yowie is the modern generic, and somewhat affectionate, term for an unidentified hominid reputed to lurk in the Australian wilderness. It is an Australian cryptid similar to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American Bigfoot.
Rather confusingly, Yowie (or "Yowie-Whowie") is also the name of a completely different mythological character in native Australian Aboriginal folklore. This version of the Yowie is said to be a bizarre, hybrid beast resembling a cross between a lizard and an ant with big red eyes on the side of his head, big canine teeth and large fangs. It emerges from the ground at night to eat whatever it can find, including humans. This creature's characteristics and legend are sometimes interchangeable with those of the bunyip.[citation needed]
The origin of the term "Yowie" in the context of unidentified hominids is unclear. Some presume that it simply arose through confusion with the aforementioned Aboriginal legend. On the other hand, Jonathan Swift's yahoos from Gulliver's Travels are sometimes cited as a source. The word "Yowie" was also apparently a slang term for the Orangutan in Victorian England.
The earliest published reference to the word in its current usage is in Donald Friend's Hillendiana, [1] a collection of writing about the goldfields near Hill End in New South Wales. Friend refers to the "Yowie" as a species of "bunyip", an Aboriginal term used to describe monsters said to dwell in many Australian rivers and lakes. Researcher Rex Gilroy popularized the word in newspaper articles during the 1970s and 1980s.[2]
Bunyip
The bunyip (usually translated as "devil" or "spirit"[1]) is a mythical creature from Australian folklore. Various accounts and explanations of bunyips have been given across Australia since the early days of the colonies. It has also been identified as an animal recorded in Aboriginal mythology, similar to known extinct animals.
Descriptions of bunyips vary widely. It is usually given as a sort of lake monster. Common features in Aboriginal descriptions include a dog-like face, dark fur, a horse-like tail, flippers, and walrus-like tusks or horns. According to legend, they are said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.
Re: Heat Wave in Melbourne to hot for koalas
Axlin08 wrote:Agreed, it's weird. In North America, this has been one of our coldest winters in awhile. Australia is sweatin' their asses off...
Global climate change...
Agreed... which imo leads more proof to it being an 'Earth' thang, rather than a 'man' thang.
Re: Heat Wave in Melbourne to hot for koalas
The earth is changing. The planet has been going through stages since the beginning of time. I find it funny that people think that now we have fancy cars and computers we can control what the Planet will do or it will stop changing all together.
Global Warming? Possible but not on the scale people are thinking.
Re: Heat Wave in Melbourne to hot for koalas
Nope. What's bizarre about it all, is to publicly criticize global warming, is like being a holocaust denyer.
I attend college, and it's VERY liberal. I simply got into a debate with a couple people in class over it being a Earth progession vs. man, and simply because I believed it was a new Earth cycle, they practically treated me like I thought Auschwitz never happened.
