Australia's most baffling zoological mystery!During the early colonial era, Australia's Aborigines often warned British settlersto beware of huge, ape-like creatures that lurked in the rugged mountains anddeep forests of the island continent. Their people, they said, had been encounteringthe hairy horrors since time immemorial. They knew them by many names, including doolagarl, thoolagarl, jurrawarra and tjangara. Soon the colonists, too, began to experience hair-raising encounters with thehulking, foul-smelling creatures, which they referred to as "Australian apes", "yahoos" or "youries". Today, they are generally referred to as yowies. The list ofmodern-day eyewitnesses includes zoologists, rangers, surveyors and members ofthe elite Special Air Service Regiment. This book chronicles the yowie saga from the pre-colonial era to the present day. It contains over 300 carefully documented eyewitness reports and a vast amountof other data, much of which suggests that the damnably elusive creatures reallydo exist. The authors also critically examine the many theories that have beenput forward to explain - or explain away - Australia's most baffling zoologicalmystery.