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Anyone come across a clapping yowie?

Hi Wookiee Welcome to the forum

Stick tapping yes, Link to Stick tapping thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=848 Rock tapping I believe so, But hand clapping (if that’s what you mean) not to sure haven’t heard of it.

Is this something you have heard or experienced yourself ?

It wasn't stick tapping, definitely clapping, but I have heard some thing previously smashing repeatedly a big branch against a log/tree last Easter 3am at night. The clapping came after I clapped 3 times to scare what I thought was a possum away. I am not new to experiencing and seeing a yowie in this area. See my case in Paul Croppers lattest book (case 161). This clapping continued about 5 times, each time after I clapped and once after I tried talking to it with mumbles and growles. It moved silently around the cabin/shipping container, and it was not scared when I made a whole lot of noise and shouting and banging to scare it away. It knew when to clap back out front of the door so I couldn't surprise it with a torch. This thing is smart or has special vision or can read your mind.

Hi again Wookiee

Sounds intriguing never heard of hand clapping before but I can imagine them reinacting human behavior for sure, as I believe we are talking about highly intelligent individuals.

Wookiee wrote:It knew when to clap back out front of the door so I couldn't surprise it with a torch. This thing is smart or has special vision or can read your mind.

I would have to agree. You here it far to often time and again. They are definitely "smarter" than most people give them credit for .

I read your report in the bible Re case: 161 is this the spot you heard the clapping in woolamia?

I've heard them copy our clapping tune by banging wood, but not hand clapping.

Hello, Members,..mind if i add to your topic...
A few years Back i was using a old cabin for the weekend in the mountains behind Bundy,
I was still studying to play drums at the time and so i carried a pair of drum sticks with me every where i whent it did'nt take me long to work out what i was going to use an old rusty 44gallon drum sitting on the landing at the cabbin for, id been staying i the area for two days at this stage so I would have clocked up a few hours running beats out on this old drum by this time , on coming back from exsploring a creek all morning after the second day i noticed that the old tin drum had been moved off the cabin deck and down behind the tree line about 10m in to side of my cabin. ( no kids around no people for miles) i just let myself think Dingo's must have smelt my sent on it and so played around with it for a bit, as id witnessed in the past.
But that evening about 11.30pm i was woken up to loads of shuffling and tree shaking, grunts and low vocal rumbles out the side of the cabin and something trudging around me the odd sound of a stick taping and scratching along the outside walls of the hut every now and then, that went on for a while, and when that stopped and my visitor when back out of the clearing back amongst the scrub, i could hear the little bit of water left in the drum, swishing and the cracking of smaller twigs and logs underneath it (the drum was rolling).
on and off into the wee hours the drum was hit on with sticks and small leafy branches and thrown into trees.

Hey pix, I’m sure they (being Yowies) can be curious little buggers at times.

I can just imagine him/her now playing with those sticks on the drum like a little kid wondering how you got such good acoustics.

Thanks for sharing your experience,