Hi! David,

On 14 May 06 16:48, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> If you're still alive after an -incident- with one, then it positively
 PQ>> cannot have been a drop-bear.

 DD> One has never actually dropped on me. When I first arrived in Australia I
 DD> quickly learned to recognise their smell and thus to keep out from
 DD> underneath them.

And, then there's the peculiar 'call' they have at night.  It's the only
way to pick their location as they're mostly nocturnal.  (It's a cross
between a low-pitched hyena and fruit bat.)

Have I ever told you of the time 'back in the day' when we came across the
carcass of a water buffalo in the Wide Bay Training Area (WBTA)?

There's a paticular piece of "J" there, between Kauri Creek and
the 'Marilyn' feature.  It consists mostly of wetlands areas, which was a
favourite for the NCOs to keep us happy/busy bogging & de-bogging tanks
or 4x drives.

Anyhow we came upon this 'kill' which was missing the entire neck and head,
leaving quite distinctive bite/chew marks around the wound, and, on several
easy-to-access soft parts of the carcass (no doubt inflicted by the young).
They were reminiscent of the way sharks tear at the flesh with a similar
sideways motion.

The area surrounding the kill site was later identified as a drop-bear pack
feast with numerous 'spoor' trails leading away in several directions.

Cheers,
Paul.

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