Drop Bears

[KarlB]

Reference to the dangers from Drop Bears keep surfacing on the forum, particularly in relation to threatening creepies, crawlies and other nasties of the Australian bush. Any way, those with an interest in Drop Bears may like to have a look here: Drop Bear - Australian Museum. It is always good to be well prepared when you take your Landies to those remote places we all yearn for.

Cheers
KarlB

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I haven't seen any of these animals, or even evidence of them, on any of my more recent sojournes into the bush. Does anyone know about their current status? Threatened? Vulnerable? Plentiful?

More importantly than that have any protection programs been established to maintain their breeding status in the wild?

Would be very interested to know as zoology comes a close second behind my enthusiasm for Land Rovers and even before tanks, aircraft and steam engines.

[VladTepes]

Lotz-a

do a search on crypto-zoology.

[stevo68]

Hmmm a drop bear to me is when you need to take a dump in the good old doors. First you find yourself a nice sapling......normally on a mound or angle.....drop the drawers.....hang onto sapling and lean back........and bingo.....a drop bear .

I had the shame when at cadets of unleashing a drop bear............and the sapling snapped. Sufficed to say.....I slept alone that camp

Regards

Stevo

[incisor]

plenty of drop bears breeding already diana..

no shortage of them envisaged anytime soon!

[GlenM]

I haven't seen any of these animals, or even evidence of them, on any of my more recent sojournes into the bush. Does anyone know about their current status? Threatened? Vulnerable? Plentiful?

More importantly than that have any protection programs been established to maintain their breeding status in the wild?

Would be very interested to know as zoology comes a close second behind my enthusiasm for Land Rovers and even before tanks, aircraft and steam engines.

DEADLY.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I had the pleasure of being in Prof Mike Archer's Vertebrate Zoogeography course during my science degree.

The first lesson of the course was one not to be missed (for reasons other than the course material). The lecture covered diversification of lifeforms on a remote archipelligo in the South Pacific. If the content of the lecture wasn't true, it should have been, every day living on one of those islands would have been treat where a smile would rarely be off your face.

I guess you had to experience the lecture!

I haven't seen any of these animals, or even evidence of them, on any of my more recent sojournes into the bush. Does anyone know about their current status? Threatened? Vulnerable? Plentiful?

DEADLY.

Yes but you can be Deadly and Critically Endangered at the same time - just look at the Great White Shark

[d@rk51d3]

Hmmm a drop bear to me is when you need to take a dump in the good old doors. First you find yourself a nice sapling......normally on a mound or angle.....drop the drawers.....hang onto sapling and lean back........and bingo.....a drop bear .

Would make for an exciting geocache.

[Grumndriva]

Diana, I can't speak for them now, but they were very plentiful around Townsville back in the 70s whenever we had a British Army unit exercising with us!

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Diana, I can't speak for them now, but they were very plentiful around Townsville back in the 70s whenever we had a British Army unit exercising with us!

That's my worry, particularly when you've scared off a few Britts with guns, they may have come back to make Queensland safe for backpackers.

I'd rather know that the bush was still full of drop-bears, than full of fair skinned, sunburnt backpackers!