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<div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Hoax in Australian folklore</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Dropbear" redirects here. For the SSH program, see <a href="/wiki/Dropbear_(software)" title="Dropbear (software)">Dropbear (software)</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Dropbear_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Dropbear (disambiguation)">Dropbear (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koala_climbing_tree.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A koala walking along a branch, away from viewer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Koala_climbing_tree.jpg/250px-Koala_climbing_tree.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Koala_climbing_tree.jpg/330px-Koala_climbing_tree.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Koala_climbing_tree.jpg/500px-Koala_climbing_tree.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1132" data-file-height="1113" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Koala" title="Koala">koala</a> is the main inspiration for the myth of the drop bear.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>drop bear</b> (sometimes <b>dropbear</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Hoax" title="Hoax">hoax</a> in contemporary <a href="/wiki/Australian_folklore" title="Australian folklore">Australian folklore</a> featuring a <a href="/wiki/Predator" class="mw-redirect" title="Predator">predatory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnivorous" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnivorous">carnivorous</a> version of the <a href="/wiki/Koala" title="Koala">koala</a>. This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in <a href="/wiki/Tall_tale" title="Tall tale">tall tales</a> designed to scare <a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Australia" title="Tourism in Australia">tourists</a>. While koalas are typically docile <a href="/wiki/Herbivore" title="Herbivore">herbivores</a> (and are not <a href="/wiki/Bear" title="Bear">bears</a>), drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious <a href="/wiki/Marsupial" title="Marsupial">marsupials</a> that inhabit treetops and attack unsuspecting people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ag-tdb-vj_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ag-tdb-vj-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the drop bear originated as a hoax, observers have noted its similarities to <i><a href="/wiki/Thylacoleo" title="Thylacoleo">Thylacoleo</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Hypercarnivore" title="Hypercarnivore">hypercarnivorous</a> marsupial from the <a href="/wiki/Late_Pleistocene" title="Late Pleistocene">Late Pleistocene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_2020_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_2020-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2></div> <p>The origin of the drop bear myth is unknown. It has been attributed to a sketch in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Paul_Hogan_Show" title="The Paul Hogan Show">The Paul Hogan Show</a></i> in which koalas jump out of the trees and attack a man. However, others say it began as a scary story for children, or as a trick played on soldiers visiting Australia for training.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_2020_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_2020-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 1967 article in <i><a href="/wiki/Army_(newspaper)" title="Army (newspaper)">Army</a></i>, the Australian Army's newspaper, mentions "a dreaded Drop Bear",<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a 1976 article about an army base refers to "the legends and stories of drop bears and <a href="/wiki/Hoop_snake" title="Hoop snake">hoop snakes</a> that supposedly originated there".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other early appearances in print include a <i>Royal Australian Navy News</i> article in 1978<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a classified advertisement in the <i>Canberra Times</i> in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_2020_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_2020-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dropbears" title="Dropbears">Dropbears</a>, an Australian band, formed in 1981. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stories_and_tall_tales">Stories and tall tales</h2></div> <p>Stories about drop bears are generally used as an <a href="/wiki/In-joke" title="In-joke">in-joke</a> intended to frighten and confuse outsiders while amusing locals, similar to North American "<a href="/wiki/Fearsome_critters" title="Fearsome critters">fearsome critters</a>" such as the <a href="/wiki/Jackalope" title="Jackalope">jackalope</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dorson_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dorson-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tourists are the main targets of such stories.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These tales are often accompanied by advice that the hearer adopt various tactics purported to deter drop bear attacks—including placing forks in the hair, having <a href="/wiki/Vegemite" title="Vegemite">Vegemite</a> or toothpaste spread behind the ears or in the armpits, <a href="/wiki/Urinating" class="mw-redirect" title="Urinating">urinating</a> on oneself, and only speaking English in an Australian accent.<sup id="cite_ref-ag-tdb-vj_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ag-tdb-vj-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JCU_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JCU-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popularisation">Popularisation</h2></div> <p>The website of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Museum" title="Australian Museum">Australian Museum</a> contains an entry for the drop bear written in a serious tone similar to entries for other, real, species. The entry classifies the drop bear as <i>Thylarctos plummetus</i> and describes them as "a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the koala", the size of a <a href="/wiki/Leopard" title="Leopard">leopard</a>, having coarse orange fur with dark mottling, with powerful forearms for climbing and attacking prey, and a bite made using broad powerful <a href="/wiki/Premolar" title="Premolar">premolars</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Canine_tooth" title="Canine tooth">canines</a>. Specifically it states that they weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb) and have a length of 130 centimetres (51 in).<sup id="cite_ref-am-asdb_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-am-asdb-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tongue-in-cheek entry was created for "<a href="/wiki/Silly_season" title="Silly season">silly season</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-am-itnd_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-am-itnd-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Australian Museum also established a small display in the museum itself, exhibiting artefacts which it stated "may, or may not, relate to actual drop bears."<sup id="cite_ref-am-itnd_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-am-itnd-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Australian_Geographic" title="Australian Geographic">Australian Geographic</a></i> ran an article on its website on 1 April 2013 (<a href="/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day" title="April Fools' Day">April Fools' Day</a>) purporting that researchers had found that drop bears were more likely to attack tourists than people with Australian accents.<sup id="cite_ref-ag-db13_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ag-db13-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The article was based on a 2012 paper published in <i><a href="/wiki/Australian_Geographer" title="Australian Geographer">Australian Geographer</a>,</i> and despite referencing the Australian Museum entry on drop bears in several places, images included with the <i>Australian Geographic</i> article were sourced from <i>Australian Geographer</i> and did not match the Australian Museum's species description.<sup id="cite_ref-ag-tdb-vj_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ag-tdb-vj-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-am-asdb_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-am-asdb-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ag-db13_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ag-db13-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The drop bear hoax, using a polar bear, was humorously referenced in an advertisement for <a href="/wiki/Bundaberg_Rum" title="Bundaberg Rum">Bundaberg Rum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Discworld" title="Discworld">Discworld</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Continent" title="The Last Continent">The Last Continent</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, drop bears inhabit the continent of Fourecks,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a land portrayed as a parody of Australia. This version of the drop bear tale shows the animals with well-padded backsides to cushion their fall.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Australian Chris Toms and New Zealand musician Johnny Batchelor formed a band named <a href="/wiki/Dropbears" title="Dropbears">Dropbears</a> in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Similarities_to_Thylacoleo">Similarities to <i>Thylacoleo</i></h2></div> <p>Observers have noted similarities between the drop bear and the specimen <i><a href="/wiki/Thylacoleo" title="Thylacoleo">Thylacoleo</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_2020_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_2020-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like the drop bear, <i>Thylacoleo</i> (also called the "marsupial lion") was a <a href="/wiki/Hypercarnivore" title="Hypercarnivore">hypercarnivorous</a> marsupial found only in Australia. </p><p>A 2016 <a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" title="Nature (journal)"><i>Nature</i></a> study of claw marks in caves concluded the marsupial lions could climb rock faces as well as trees.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2018 study, paleontologists conjectured them to be <a href="/wiki/Ambush_predator" title="Ambush predator">ambush predators</a> that would leap on unsuspecting prey.<sup id="cite_ref-Evans2018_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans2018-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Incisions on bones of the extinct kangaroo <i><a href="/wiki/Macropus_titan" title="Macropus titan">Macropus titan</a></i> suggest Thylacoleo fed in a similar way to modern <a href="/wiki/Cheetah" title="Cheetah">cheetahs</a>, using their sharp teeth to slice open the ribcage of their prey, thereby accessing the internal organs. They may have killed by using their front claws as either stabbing weapons, or as a way to grab their prey with strangulation or suffocation.<sup id="cite_ref-bite_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bite-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garkain" title="Garkain">Garkain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wild_Haggis" class="mw-redirect" title="Wild Haggis">Wild Haggis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoop_snake" title="Hoop snake">Hoop snake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackalope" title="Jackalope">Jackalope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus" title="Pacific Northwest tree octopus">Pacific Northwest tree octopus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snipe_hunt" title="Snipe hunt">Snipe hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yara-ma-yha-who" title="Yara-ma-yha-who">Yara-ma-yha-who</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yowie" title="Yowie">Yowie</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output 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