Once prey is within view, the Drop Bear will drop as much as eight metres to pounce on top of the unsuspecting victim. The initial impact often stuns the prey, allowing it to be bitten on the neck and quickly subdued. The drop bear is a fictitious creature that supposedly drops from the trees on unsuspecting victims. Learn about its supposed appearance, behaviour, diet and habitat, and how to avoid it with vegemite or forks. Drop bears are a mythical marsupial that supposedly leaps from trees to attack tourists and foreign soldiers in Australia. Learn about the origins, characteristics and conservation of this urban legend and how to avoid it if it were real. Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear , and they’ll likely recount a close encounter with this carnivorous, fanged cousin of the Australian koala.
