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ffs a mangey fox ha ha

This is my closest

Some people hold out hope, some people have invested too much time, effort and money into it that they have to keep going in hopes that it will pay off... Then there are a bunch of crazy/deluded people as well, then they get in a big group and it becomes an echo chamber. This is clearly a fox. I'd like to hold out hope that they exist, but after seeing a taxidermy in Hobart Museum last year there is no way something that big could have eluded people for close to 100 years - especially with so many people looking for it both actively and with cameras. There would have to be roadkill or a hunter/farmer accidently shoot one by now.

The problem with every animal conspiracy theory that I've ever heard of is that they insist on relying on absolutely crap, ambiguous, explainable footage. This is almost certainly a fox or a dog. Why leap directly to bigfoot/yowee/panther/chupacabra/lock ness monster/abominable snowman/aliens/gebus/thylacine?? Just stoooooopid. I wonder if these groups are a bunch of people who don't believe but keep putting crap like this up because they think everybody else in the group does 😂

Everything, and I mean everything in the bush makes noise when it moves. The wind, trees, and the animals. Nothing can walk around completely quiet. If there are wind gusts, move when the wind does, stop when it is still. If it is noisy underfoot for you, it is noisy for everything. Deer are inquisitive, they don't like to move unless they see you or smell you. I have had deer brake off after I have passed them. I have had deer run at me. Stags rub trees, shake a bush every now and then and see what happens. We have 2 legs, that is what is distinctive about the way we move thru the bush, it isn't a normal sound. Move slowly, and then even slower when in the hot zone, but don't try to hunt every inch of land you cover, it is too hard. Your concentration will go and you will just get frustrated. Take a break, 15 minutes to sit down and listen to the sounds around you. Work gullies, spend some time glassing, then go to the next. If you bump a deer then you are on the right track. The trick is to see them before they see you. You don't learn if you don't make mistakes.

That's amazing footage!