Some told to me by friends.

The Yowies were a threat.

They ate people, carried off women and children.

So whenever a band of Kuris came across one, they speared them 1st and asked questions later.

Over the last 200 years or so, the Yowies only natural predator (Aborigines) have been severely reduced in numbers by European settlers etc. So the Yowies are now starting to increase in numbers.

OK. If it is a fake, it is the worst cryptid fake I have ever seen in my life.

Which is why I don’t buy all the Photoshop analysis apparently hinting (at the very least) that this image was pasted in. WHY paste in something you cannot even get the first idea what it is? If you’re gonna fake something, I think I can say, without fear of contradiction, that you would provide more of an appearance of a specific thing you would want the hoaxed public to think it is.

right?

It’s an enormous waste of time and space — for the faker — if it’s a fake.

Firstly, there are at least two kinds reported and could even be more.

The “Lesser Yowie”, called a Junjadee or Little Brown Jack, is up to 4 feet tall.

The larger Yowie can be from 7.5 to 12 feet tall depending on the report.

Difficult to say, but is this Yowie carrying a cub?

Looks as if it’s carrying a Young one in its arms.

Here is a link to an upright walking Monkey. It maybe of interest to note the stance and the play of color tones from the sunlight on the fur.

I think these are just points to examine.

I didn’t Photoshop the pic to death, merely enlarged it to see the individual pixels. There is clearly a box, like the marquee tool had been drawn around the animal and it sharpened, possibly even had the contrast increased. It surrounds the animal in question.

If you look at the first photo, you can see the trees and grass behind the animal are more distinct than the flora in front of it. This is quite obvious on the enlargement.

Again, it may have been an innocent attempt to clarify the image, which means these aren’t originals. I’d like to see those.

Second, the animal is solid black in the pixels. This is highly unusual as even shadows will have different shades of grey and black. It is as if someone was purposely trying to hide the detail of the image — to make it a blob.

The edges of the animal have a clear stair-step pattern to the pixels, like a very distinct shape. This wouldn’t happen with fur or a moving object that far away. You would have pixels that are black, some that are grey, some that were the color of the background. It is like someone cut out a black shape.

I submitted an enlargement which would make this discussion more fruitful if it was posted.

Too much speculation from us. Too few words from the guy who shot the pix.

Are we going to hear more from him?