I was recently reading a thread where some people shared their experience about having a BF "shadow" or follow them. It seemed that most of those posts involved a person or, in some cases, two people. It also seems to me there aren't nearly as many sightings or reports of BF by groups of three or more. Obviously, in the woods, there are more individuals, or groups of two individuals, than there are groups of more than two people. However, I wonder whether there is any correlation between BF making contact with humans and the human group size.
Call me lazy, but I don't want to go through every encounter or sighting report to try to determine the percentage of occurances based upon group size. Do you agree, or disagree, with the notion that BF seems more inclined to make contact when the human group size is only one or two individuals?
Full Version: BF sightings, or encounters, and human group size
Well I am no expert but any animal would a large group of people just as they would avoid going into the middle of a buffalo herd. The point is they instinctively know that they have to avoid attacking large groups of the same species clumped together.
G’day Wiiawiwb,
There is a clear relationship between the number of witnesses present during an encounter and their frequency of occurrence in Australia. This simply seems to be case because a Yowie will readily intimidate an individual but, is less inclined to do so as the number of people present increases. This makes sense. Aborigines were traditionally in the habit of throwing spears at Dooligahl and were known to eat them.
This does not mean that encounters by very large groups are unknown. They are however, quite rare. About 10 or more years ago I was called to a street in Springwood in the Blue Mountains and was surprised to discover that about 20 people, teenagers and their parents, had jointly witnessed an encounter. In this circumstance, the Dooligahl was most probably a particularly aggressive individual that could have been responsible for many other similar reports in this area.
Neil
There is a clear relationship between the number of witnesses present during an encounter and their frequency of occurrence in Australia. This simply seems to be case because a Yowie will readily intimidate an individual but, is less inclined to do so as the number of people present increases. This makes sense. Aborigines were traditionally in the habit of throwing spears at Dooligahl and were known to eat them.
This does not mean that encounters by very large groups are unknown. They are however, quite rare. About 10 or more years ago I was called to a street in Springwood in the Blue Mountains and was surprised to discover that about 20 people, teenagers and their parents, had jointly witnessed an encounter. In this circumstance, the Dooligahl was most probably a particularly aggressive individual that could have been responsible for many other similar reports in this area.
Neil
QUOTE(Neil Frost @ May 9 2009, 10:45 PM) 
G’day Wiiawiwb,
There is a clear relationship between the number of witnesses present during an encounter and their frequency of occurrence in Australia. This simply seems to be case because a Yowie will readily intimidate an individual but, is less inclined to do so as the number of people present increases. This makes sense. Aborigines were traditionally in the habit of throwing spears at Dooligahl and were known to eat them.
This does not mean that encounters by very large groups are unknown. They are however, quite rare. About 10 or more years ago I was called to a street in Springwood in the Blue Mountains and was surprised to discover that about 20 people, teenagers and their parents, had jointly witnessed an encounter. In this circumstance, the Dooligahl was most probably a particularly aggressive individual that could have been responsible for many other similar reports in this area.
Neil
There is a clear relationship between the number of witnesses present during an encounter and their frequency of occurrence in Australia. This simply seems to be case because a Yowie will readily intimidate an individual but, is less inclined to do so as the number of people present increases. This makes sense. Aborigines were traditionally in the habit of throwing spears at Dooligahl and were known to eat them.
This does not mean that encounters by very large groups are unknown. They are however, quite rare. About 10 or more years ago I was called to a street in Springwood in the Blue Mountains and was surprised to discover that about 20 people, teenagers and their parents, had jointly witnessed an encounter. In this circumstance, the Dooligahl was most probably a particularly aggressive individual that could have been responsible for many other similar reports in this area.
Neil
Or that it was part or a rather large group of the creatures and was just scouting ahead...
G'day Wiiawiwb,
Your hypothesis has considerable merit.
Neil
Your hypothesis has considerable merit.
Neil
I think that group size is a definite factor when it comes to a BF making its presence know. Obviously there are sightings, and encounters that have been made by groups of people, but there are countless more that are made by single individuals. I believe that the main reason for this is very simple, (one person=minimal threat / group of people=very large threat), so of coarse they would be more cautious when viewing a group rather than a single individual.
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