Hi! David,

On 16 May 06 17:47, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> able to pull down a 2-tonne+ animal.  I never slept on the ground
 PQ>> again after that, no matter how good the sleeping bag seemed.

 DD> I think they're like wolves or hyenas, they rely on the power of the pack
 DD> to pull down the bigger prey.

Absolutely.  Hence their distinctive call... as the hunt progresses.

It's a wonder you haven't had any sightings around your country estate,
since they apparently relish in dominating the dryer climes, in open
woodland areas. Watch for open spaces between clumps of gum trees, man. 
That's their favourite drop 'zones'.

Their droppings are easy to identify since the turds tend to appear as fur
balls containing the crushed and partly digested bones of their victims,
due to their diet of large omnivorial prey.  The 'sets' of droppings tend
to occur in groupings of 6-8 turds as they like dump as a group to hide
their numbers.

Cheers,
Paul.

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