The Yowie: Australia's Bigfoot?

Please enjoy this video focusing on the history of Australia's answer to Sasquatch: the Yowie.

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#cryptozoology #yowie #bigfoot

[melvinshine]

If I remember correctly, The Loch Ness monster didn't start to "become" a plesiosaur until after the original The Lost World film came out. Seems like a similar sort of thing happened with the Yowie, with Bigfoot mania turning any legendary, hairy biped into a Bigfoot clone.

[SnivyDoll]

Not to be confused with Yaoi, which is something entirely different

[marvinbange]

Australian creature with big talons and backwards facing feet? Yowie= Huge bipedal echidna confirmed

[Ceej_MM]

I love your cryptozoology videos. It's so refreshing hearing a rational take on these creatures instead of the breathless nonsense that usually gets peddled in these sorts of videos. You are doing the Lord's work, doc.

[ChaseDaOrk]

Do you plan on covering other Australian Cryptids?

[DraptorRonin]

Well, if there's one thing to say about the Yowie, it'd that it's name(s) makes it sound like it's always having a fun time.

[thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Yowie always seemed like the least plausible of the bigfoot type cryptids, Australia is so distant from where great apes, or primates of any kind are found/evolved

[MrRurounismc]

Trey's video on the native bigfoot stories is was super enlightening.

[rewild]

I'm an ecologist in Australia.

I quite like the idea that some of these indigenous stories were inspired by animals like Procoptodon and other large Stenurines. With a bipedal walking gate, long arms with hooked claws, and a flat, ape reminiscent face, they fit the bill to an extent.

Not that I believe they persisted into the Holocene, but they may have persisted in the folklore of indigenous peoples long after their extinction.

Its also possible that animals like Thylacoleo became blurred with, and woven into these mythical chimeras, that took on spiritual and anthropomorphic characteristics over the millenia, as the real animals they once represented were slowly forgotten.

Also Taree is pronounced Taah- rhee 😜

[Sondreign]

Love these cryptozoology videos! I appreciate the way you handle talking about the sightings, “evidence” and likely causes. Not trying to scare or convince anyone they’re real. Just giving the same type of high-quality informative video you make for established taxa.

[julioalbertoherrera]

Some monsters make the noise _"Ya-hoo"_ and others make a different noise, _"Goo-gle"._

[BasedGodEmperorTrump]

I seen a tiktok video yesterday of what sounded like an Australian guy talking about a "Yowie" being on his roof and I wasn't sure what he was talking about. Thank you, Dr. Polaris for the description!

[keithtarrier]

That was cool!

Being an Aussie, born near Sydney in 1970, I do remember a lot of the Yowie stuff in the media.

And of course on every camping trip some kid reckons he saw one. 😮

[steffen]

doctor polaris doing a cryptid video? sweet

[dannybright]

My question is how the hell did the Bigfoot/Yowie common ancestor even GET to Australia? No Mammals have ever been known to cross the Wallace Line before humans and dogs…

[ProcyonDei]

They're also very good chocolates with toy animals inside...

[daxxonjabiru]

Short answer: 'No."
Long answer: "Nope."

[copycopycpoy]

I don't know much about cryptids but my girlfriend who reads a lot of manga is always talking about this one. Yowie must be popular in Japan or something.

[terrypitt-brooke]

Nice vid, as always! I'm really looking forward to the Andrewsarchus video--this has been the ancient mammal that has most fascinated me.

[randomcontent]

Thanks for covering this cryptic being :) Love this kinda thing.