What is an Australian mythical animal?
The yowie is a mythical Australian creature, commonly frequenting bushland on the continent’s eastern side, although the west is not without its sightings. One of the earliest sightings of the yowie is recorded in a letter from naturalist H J McCooey in “The Australian Town and Country Journal”, dated 9 December 1882. McCooey claimed to have seen the yowie in 1880, in an area of bushland between Ulladulla and Bateman’s Bay on the New South Wales southern coast. He described the yowie as being about 5 feet high, standing on its hind legs, with long black hair which was reddish about its throat.
