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Meanwhile, in Australia...always make sure you look up. (i.imgur.com)

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[–]ImAnEvilPanda 9 points10 points ago

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Fuckin' dropbears.

[–]smashingcheese 0 points1 point ago

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Proof Dropbears exist.

[–]randygandy 6 points7 points ago

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Remember the vegemite when camping. Dropbears can be vicious, especially in winter when food becomes more scarce.

[–]eak125 4 points5 points ago

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Cryptozoologist here.

The natural enemy of the Drop Bear is the Jackalope due to it's rack of horns. Unfortunately Australian Jackalope are now extinct and drop bears have been proliferating without impediment.

Conversely North American Drop Bears are an endangered species with fewer than 5 pairs spotted on the entire continent. This is due to the high quantity of Jackalope and Snipe in North America thinning the drop bears to critical numbers.

[–]M8NTIS 3 points4 points ago

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Dropbears & Hoopsnakes, just another day in Aus

[–]what_you_want_69 2 points3 points ago

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They are a dam pain, always eating my families sheep. You got to watch them camping, and you can never eat at you're campsite or it will attract them. My cousin learnt the hard way

[–]jackeylegs 4 points5 points ago

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This shit is totally real, drop bears are a major issue in Australia.

[–]Nowin 1 point2 points ago

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I made my sister buy 3 pounds of Vegemite when she visited Australia.

[–]Not_Quite-right 4 points5 points ago

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drop bears always prying on the backpackers

[–]Jpoche 1 point2 points ago

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What the actual fuck

[–]TheAlgebraist 1 point2 points ago

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It's not when they fall... it's when they bounce back up again, at your throat.

[–]road_kill_ryan -1 points0 points ago

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Shopped. Good effort but...

[–]Junkz0r 0 points1 point ago

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As an Australian, I approve of this PSA. Dropbears are violent, deadly creatures.

[–]OnCallHero 0 points1 point ago

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inb4 someone flips it upside down and posts it again as [FIXED].

[–]timesync -2 points-1 points ago

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Koalas are omnivores.

[–]jubbergun -1 points0 points ago

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The koala \(Phascolarctos cinereus\) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae.

The koala lives almost entirely on eucalypt leaves. This is likely to be an evolutionary adaptation that takes advantage of an otherwise unfilled ecological niche, since eucalypt leaves are low in protein, high in indigestible substances, and contain phenolic and terpene compounds that are toxic to most species.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala

It could maybe happen if they infected with rabies or something along those line, but even still, this photo is very clearly altered.

[–]drunk_otter 4 points5 points ago

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That's not a koala. That's a dropbear - this is the info page at the Australian Museum. They're related but the dropbear is a vicious little bastard.

[–]jubbergun -4 points-3 points ago

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If that site you linked is to be believed, then that still looks like a photoshop of a koala, since dropbears are "around the size of a leopard or very large dog with coarse orange fur with some darker mottled patterning." Whatever it is in that picture is gray.

I found it very suspect that the map this site shows of this alleged creature's habitat forms an icon of an animal's face.

This all, of course, led me to my old friend Google for advice, and there I found the following: A drop bear (or dropbear) is a fictitious Australian marsupial.

My world would be filled with so much more joy and magic if I didn't have such a finely honed bullshit detector.

[–]unrest 2 points3 points ago

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Fuck off, mate.

[–]timesync 0 points1 point ago

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I meant to say herbivore not omnivore!!

[–]mltt4b -1 points0 points ago

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more of a negro if you ask me

[–]The--Plague -1 points0 points ago

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Nice try.. photoshop..

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