Beware the Leucrocotta

[jackabee]

So I was looking for this evil predatory koala and well my ADDness led me to a certain wiki article on a creature called a crocotta... and then in the middle of it was this discription:

"Pliny said that the offspring of a crocotta and a lion was the leucrota (or leucrocuta, leucrocotta, or leocrocotta), which could imitate the sound of a human voice. This was no doubt the source of the later, similar claims for the abilities of the crocotta itself. The leucrota was said to be a cloven hooved animal the size of a male donkey, yet swift and fierce. Described as having the haunches of a stag; the tail, chest, and neck of a lion; and the head of a badger, its mouth was said to open back as far as its ears. Instead of teeth it had ridges of bone that could crush anything. It was said to never close its eyes and its backbone was said to be so rigid that it had to turn around to see what was behind it."

And from that discription, I decided to draw this

and now my daemon has decided to be it... 'well for now at least'

[Spiral Sun]

jackabee said:

So I was looking for this evil predatory koala

:3 You mean a 'drop bear.'
www.bloggerheads.com/images/dropbear.jpg
www.cfr.com.au/dropbears/

[jackabee]

indeed =D
sorry my drawwing looks so.... ughish. I don't have a scanner and the thing is rather small so...

I tend to draw things small.... like this guy could go on a notecard.

[Winger]

Eheheheh, that's a cool picture. Mustn't be a Queensland dropbear though, ours look like five-legged spiders *nods wisely*. They hang around in trees, and detect prey by sound vibrations in the air. Thus, if you make too much noise, they'll drop down onto your head and excrete a smelly slime that usually subdues their prey, but just makes a mess on your head because you're too large to eat.

I came up with that myself *is proud*. And terrified small children with it.

[|3200k1]

>_>;
You all are just kidding about drop bears...right?

[Spiral Sun]

rhyandnymm said:

>_>;
You all are just kidding about drop bears...right?

Me, kid? Never. I don't partake in racing around on almost vertical slopes whilst eating anything edible in sight.

[Monkey and Bellanei]

I know a wonderful site where I read about drop bears years ago. Look! Read it!

[Alissa & North]

I must say, the leucrotta looks very... interesting. Actually its mouth just plain scares me. And its teeth... isn't that like what some dinosaurs had going on? Like the herbivore ones.
Also, kind of related to the direction this thread is going...
In the warmer areas of the US there is an animal called a jackalope that I find pretty interesting. I heard that someone caught a female of the species and milked it, right there in his backyard.

(BTW, I especially like this picture of a jackalope gone unnoticed..)

[|3200k1]

Hahah. I went through a part of the US where the Jackalope was "the thing".

But seriously, now. Drop bears can't -possibly- be real. ;_;
Right?

[Monkey and Bellanei]

Drop Bears are as real as the Hodag, the thing that kills and eats people in Wisconsin. Lives near Rhinelander.

[Cat]

Ahaha. Jackalopes are my second favourite animal. =D They are way hipper than drop bears.

[Seven]

I LOVE jackalopes!

In the town where one of my friends lives (Bandera, Texas--the self-proclaimed "Cowboy Capital of the World") they've taken it several steps further with the jackachickapheasalope. No joke. It has the head of a jackalope, the body of a chicken, and the tail of a pheasant. But the result is just sort of awkward, and not nearly as sleek and elegant as your regular old jackalope.

[⅓]

There's places to find jackalope busts around here. Or at least, I've seen them. xD

I think we were in England when we saw that "mermaid"... that was kinda funny too.

[Spiral Sun]

rhyandnymm said:

Hahah. I went through a part of the US where the Jackalope was "the thing".

But seriously, now. Drop bears can't -possibly- be real. ;_;
Right?

._. seriously? Well, we do ride to school in Kangaroo pouches and every Australian student is given lessons in how to wrestle crocodiles in their swimming classes but as for drop bears- they're as real as the deadly red-stinging-black-snake so I think you should be really careful.


o.o Jackalope? Never heard of it *looks up* that's just gross.

[Monkey and Bellanei]

DROP BEARS ARE REAL, LIKE THE HODAG. A HODAG ATE MY UNCLE. THEY ALSO TRIED TO KILL RHINELANDER.