What are some Australian Mythical animals?

Answer 1

Australia's most well-known mythical animals are:

• bunyip
• yowie
• dropbear

A bunyip is an Australian Mythical animal that lives in outback 'billabongs' (small swamp-like ponds or lakes in the middle of the bush). They eat kangaroos or stray sheep (sometimes a woman or child if the chance is there). They were supposed to be larger than human, fat, hairy and very ugly with a loud booming call.

The yowie is a mythical Australian creature, commonly frequenting bushland on the continent's eastern side, although the west is not without its sightings. One of the earliest sightings of the yowie is recorded in a letter from naturalist H J McCooey in "The Australian Town and Country Journal", dated 9 December 1882. McCooey claimed to have seen the yowie in 1880, in an area of bushland between Ulladulla and Bateman's Bay on the New South Wales southern coast. He described the yowie as being about 5 feet high, standing on its hind legs, with long black hair which was reddish about its throat.

A dropbear is a more humorous version of an Australian mythical creature, and supposed to be a killer koala that leaps out of trees onto the heads of unsuspection campers and boy scouts.