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I have Richard joining me on the show to tell me about his Yowie encounter. Richard saw a juvenile yowie when he was living on a rural property as a young child. Now what makes this so interesting is that his parents saw strange lights on the property not long after this incident…

Listen here: https://ccradio.com.au/child-discovers- ... lian-farm/

After listening to what he described, it must of been a Junjadee. The big black eyes is exactlt what I saw when I had my encounter. Also, with it being the same height as a young child is another trait of a Junjadee.

After listening to what he described, it must of been a Junjadee. The big black eyes is exactly I saw when I had my encounter. Also, with it being the same height as a young child is another trait of a Junjadee.

Yowiedan,

Thats exactly what i was thinking. You beat me to it.

I would like to hear more about the lights the parents saw.

Interesting listening. Says everything to validate my beliefs of what these creatures are.

I am also thinking Junjadee as well; but what about the speed in which it fled up the tree in a "spiral" manner (as oppose to climbing straight up). The witness stated that it was quicker than a monkey climbing a tree, and monkeys are not slow!

How many monkeys has a four year old seen climbing trees in the wild while growing up in Australia? Especially back then before the internet.

I figure it did indeed climb pretty darned quickly though whatever it was. I'm leaning towards junjadee.

Interestingly, growing up in the states I've seen that squirrels typically climb in a spiral motion around the trunks of a trees. Wonder if that sort of locomotion is advantageous than just straight up. Squirrels are very fast about it.

I have just listened to the podcast and this area would be no more than 20ks as the crow flies from my research area , I have also taken a pic of a big black
shaggy one ( head and shoulders only ) in this exact area
Cheers Greg

bassplyr wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:24 pm
Interestingly, growing up in the states I've seen that squirrels typically climb in a spiral motion around the trunks of a trees. Wonder if that sort of locomotion is advantageous than just straight up. Squirrels are very fast about it.

"Zig-zagging" to reduce the gradient as some bushwalkers sometimes do when ascending/descending (i.e. old unfit ones like me). For the life of me I can't remember the proper term for the non-squirrels. Squirrels probably just come straight down though?