Animal Planet TV crew capture audio they believe proves existence

of yowies
 by: By Geoff Shearer
 From: The Courier-Mail
 May 26, 2012 12:00AM

Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot team Cliff

Barackman, James 'Bobo' Fay, Ranae
Holland and Matt Moneymaker. Picture:
Courier Mail Source: Supplied

A US television crew has recorded what

it believes is compelling audio evidence of the existence of yowies.

The four-member team from Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot series were on an expedition through remote
forests spanning the Queensland and NSW border when they made the recordings.

Bigfoot Field Research Organisation member James "Bobo" Fay said that of the more than 20 expeditions
conducted around the world by the TV team, this was "maybe the best one as far as audio recordings".

While he was reluctant to give details ahead of presenting their evidence on the still-to-be-completed third
season of the US show, Fay said that in two different locations they had activity that they had attributed to a
yowie - the fabled ape-like creature of the Aussie bush.

"We got some really compelling audio," he said.

"It is not a known species, I can tell you that. One of the details (convinces us) there is nothing else it could
have been."

Their discovery comes as scientists from Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology are
preparing to use new DNA analysis techniques to determine whether creatures such as yowies, Bigfoot,
sasquatches or yetis exist.

The European scientists have asked other scientists, museum curators and Bigfoot tracking groups to share
samples thought to be from the mythical ape-like creature.

Bryan Sykes, of Oxford University, told the Associated Press the research group had already received offers
of samples to test, including blood, hair and items supposedly chewed by Bigfoot.

Fay is still "stoked" with having captured the Australian yowie sound on tape.

"When at first we all heard it, we were like, 'No way'," he recalls.

"If you were in North America, you could have written off one of the compelling things we heard as being a
large bear. But there are no large bears here."
1. Who are the people that recorded the animal noises? How do they make a living?

2. Would they have any pre-existing biases? If so, what are they?

3. What evidence was there that the recording is of a yowie? We have no large bears in Australia.
Could another animal have made the noise?

4. How much of what the group is doing is scientific? If there is a bigfoot or yowie, what kind of
experiments could they do to prove it?

5. How do you feel about news articles like this one?