Here in N. America we typically have to contend with bears leaving human-like tracks. I have little doubt some bear prints have been misidentified as squatch, and vice versa. Our brethren from the land down under have a similar issue. I was looking at plaster casts of a wombat and was struck by how similar to primate tracks they looked.
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Wombats get much bigger than people think as well. The largest approach the size of a normal sized black bear.
Given some of the more bizarre footprints attributed to the yowie, I have to suspect that some of them were made
by very large wombats. However there are some, like the springbrook cast that strongly resemble that which we see
in North America, and these seem to be made a a species very similar to what we are hunting here.
The human like Springbrook footprint
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