Comments on: “Animal Without A Name” Caught

By: Duffy2323

Duffy2323 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:15:45 +0000

I agree the Springhaas or Springhare to be the animal in question.

By: mastiff

mastiff — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:11:14 +0000

It was a Springhaas I reckon. Google the name springhaas and I think that you will agree that the characteristics of the cryptic animal in question fits most of those of the springhaas. I have seen cuscus and they are nothing like that described above.

By: flame821

flame821 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:11:08 +0000

That Pademelon looks pretty close to the stated description. Best guess would be a stowaway on a boat, or maybe someone brought home a ‘pet’ from their journey that managed to escape.

By: davidk

davidk — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:33:17 +0000

It has a name. It's a CusCus. A marsupial from Australia and New Guinea. Nocturnal and very cute. See here.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:21:46 +0000

David – No photos or drawings have shown up since 1939, so I don’t expect any to appear now to assist your search of Australian mammal images.

By: David-Australia

David-Australia — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:36:52 +0000

Any chance of an image of it from somewhere? Then I could look through my “Australian Mammals” book.

By: Hapa

Hapa — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:20:21 +0000

Oh darn! I thought this was something new! Feels like a let down!! Seriously, though, the first thing I thought of when I read this was the Jersey Devil. There was also a prehistoric Kangaroo, Propleopus, which had a similarity in the head to that of a squirrel (i.e. a shorter, rounder face. It was 3 feet long and either a carnivore or Omnivore). I would think it would be unlikely that this was a Propleopus (it was an Australian), as much as it would be unlikely that there was weapons of Mass destruction in Iraq.

Was there not a follow up with this account? If not, then it makes me think of those News Stories of giant human bones discovered in the 1800s that likewise vanish into history without a further word, or the numerous articles discussing multiple type specimen findings of the dwarf Grizzly (aka Lava Bears) without any further information as to the body’s locations.

By: eireman

eireman — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:37:54 +0000

Pademelon. It’s fairly squirrel-like.