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Australian cities are currently in the grip of terror due to a recent outbreak of dropbears. For unknown reasons - possibly due to logging, drought and urban sprawl having reduced their natural bush habitat - more and more dropbears have been sighted in residential suburbs in the last couple of years. Furthermore, a larger than usual number of dropbear attacks on people have been reported in the last six months, and authorities are desperately trying to find out why dropbear activity has increased so significantly of late. It is a disturbing and totally unexpected change in their natural behaviour, as dropbears don't generally hunt in urban areas, and both scientists and authorities have been battling to try to understand why this is happening.
For those readers who may not be familiar with the Aussie dropbear menace, these terrifying creatures, a distant cousin to koalas but much larger (almost the size of an American grizzly) and with sharp claws and fangs, generally hide in trees during the day, sleeping on the upper branches out of sight. But in the evening and throughout the night, they hunt by waiting for an unsuspecting victim to walk under the tree - at which point they drop from the branch (hence the colloquial name "dropbear") and begin savaging their prey with claws and teeth in a frenzy of violence. Once the victim has been mauled to death, the dropbear will then eat its fill and move on to a new tree, leaving the corpse lying there like a sack of red rags. Usually dropbears attack smaller prey such as kangaroos and cattle, but they will also attack a full-grown human with no hesitation. Their size, and the fury of their attack means the chances of surviving a dropbear attack are similar to that of being dropped into a pool of twenty-foot killer sharks.
Since the beginning of colonial recorded history, thousands of Australian deaths have been attributed to dropbear maulings, and no doubt tens - or even hundreds - of thousands of Aborigines perished in the time before that. There have been very few survivors. So it is with obvious concern that authorities have stepped up warnings about the recent dropbear increase in the suburbs. All the usual warnings are important to remember - don't go out at night unless you have to, and if you do, do NOT walk under any trees. Shamefully, the government keeps insisting that we do not mention dropbears in public, to tourists or other non-Australians. Despite the increased danger, they still maintain their greedy conspiracy of threatening us with penalties for disclosing any information that may harm the tourist industry. You can still be fined up to $5,000, or jailed for a period of six months just for warning a tourist about the dropbear menace.