Drop Bear
Kingdom: Animalia
Location found: Australia
Drop bears are carnivorous, tree-dwelling marsupials found throughout Australia. Their preferred dwelling is eucalyptus trees or gum trees. They are related to koala bears, though larger and equipped with sharp teeth and razor-like claws. Sometimes people refer to them as the koala bear's evil twin.Location found: Australia
Drop bears prefer to feed at night. They wait in trees and then drop down on top of their prey, usually instantly knocking it unconscious. They will then proceed to devour it. They will quite readily attack creatures larger than themselves, including humans.
The only known way to deter a drop bear is to spread toothpaste or vegemite behind your ears and on your neck. It also makes sense not to pitch your tent beneath a tree that contains a drop bear. A good way to find out if a drop bear is in a tree is to lie down beneath the tree and spit upwards. If a drop bear is sleeping up there, it will wake up and spit back.
Australians are known for going to great lengths to make sure that backpacking tourists are aware of the dangers posed by drop bears. Young children attending camp are also frequently warned of this threat to their safety.
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walking round a tree
look up see something oh poo
drop arrr dead
Posted by The chupacabra from Pluto on Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 11:05 AM
Did I see something?
Up there in the trees branches?
I wil not sleep there
Posted by J on Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 11:45 PM
spit high and spit low
Koala doeppelganger
waits up there for you!
Posted by #1F in NNVA on Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 05:50 PM
eucalyptus tree
I hear growls from within
Koala? Or worse?
Posted by Thisisnotadrillalienshaveinvadadedtheplanetearth on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 11:41 PM
do dropbears really exist?
Posted by kat in sydney on Thu Mar 29, 2007 at 10:36 PM
I googled drop bears and now I'm scared
They seem so scarey! I'm glad I don't live in Australia. I hate the internet-I always find something that'll scare me-and I don't scare easily. I don't get scared of things I know exist-only of things I find out about. Strange. Anyways, in all my years of life I've never encountered such an animal and hopefully, I never will.Posted by Aliza in NY on Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 08:26 AM
Believe they don't exist at your own peril.
Posted by Merrick on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 05:19 PM
Haha, before I moved to Australia everyone warned me to beware of drop-bears... except they didn't say that koalas and dropbears were different animals, they just said that koalas will drop on top of you if you walk past and eukalyptus tree and scratch out your eyes. It took me a few months to find out that koalas are as harmless as they look;)
Posted by Oksanna in Canberra, Australia on Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 05:24 AM
Drop Bears
love "warning" all the tourists about it, especially the yanks, they'll believe anything! Never heard the spitting thing though...Excellent work!
Posted by Jessica in Adelaide, Australia on Sun Jan 06, 2008 at 03:47 PM
i saw the drop bear once outside of my rv it was moving around i call my friend he told to not get out of my rv i locked the doors i left my tv on and i close the window curtens i tried to sleep i woke up at 2:00 pm i went outside my chairs and tables where destroy
Posted by arthur in cambeberwell/ australia on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 05:15 PM
Hey i dont know if drop bears are true or not coz i dont rilli belive it at all !!!!!!!!!
Posted by Missy in SA on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 06:50 PM
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HOAX HAIKU
Rustling leaves - wind? birds?
Fear not the eucalyptus
But what hides within.
(by Terran)
Fear not the eucalyptus
But what hides within.
(by Terran)