AR-News: (AU) THE BEAST WHO WALKS

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Sightings of large predator cats in the Australian bush have been dismissed 
as phantoms for more than 50 years. Now, for the first time, an investigation 
by the NSW government has concluded that it is likely there are, indeed, big 
cats out there. Bernard Lagan reports. 



"Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a 
quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. Across 
the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll 
inside her. And on the veranda of the Stubbses' house, a small dog is torn 
screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will be the same again." 
- In the Winter Dark, by Tim Winton 
At night, Paul Coffee stamps his feet when he walks the 50-odd metres from 
his office, past the trees with deep, mysterious gouges to his isolated house in 
woodlands on the eastern fringes of the Blue Mountains. When his pet dog is 
jumpy and Coffee – witty and solidly built – has the more certain feeling that 
something unexplained is back, the environmental consultant will drive his 
Land Rover the few minutes home.



full story:

http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/All/587288F1C522499FCA256E2
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"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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