Summary: <p>Part two of the Bigfoot episode sort of got away from me. We start with giants of Patagonia and end up, inexplicably, with seals in Australia. But it’s a fun ride along the way, where we learn about real giants in Patagonia, folkloric giants in Patagonia, the Yowie of Australia, and the Bunyip of Australia. And Southern elephant seals.</p> <p>Some map giants:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-349" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/giants.jpg" alt="" width="292" height="173"></p> <p>Yowie candy, because it’s getting close to Halloween:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-350" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/yowiecandy-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168"></p> <p>A drawing of the bunyip geoglyph:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-346" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/outlinebunyip-300x190.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="190"></p> <p>A map showing where the geoglyph was located. Old maps are neat:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-347" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bunyippanelmap-300x262.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="262"></p> <p>The southern elephant seal. Look at that magnificent snoot!</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-348" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/elephantseal.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="176"></p> <p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15779792-monsters-of-patagonia"><em>Monsters of Patagonia</em></a> by Austin Whittall</p> <p>“<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/01/19/the-yowie-australian-bigfoot/">What to make of the Yowie?</a>” By Darren Naish</p> <p>“Buckley’s Bunyip” by Paul Michael Donovan, in <a href="http://www.journalofcryptozoology.com/">The Journal of Cryptozoology</a>, Vol. 4 (Dec 2016)</p> <p><strong>Further listening:</strong></p> <p>The Folklore Podcast December 15 2016 episode “<a href="http://thefolklorepodcast.weebly.com/season-1/episode-11-bunyip-devil-of-the-riverbed-with-guest-paul-michael-donovan">Bunyip: Devil of the Riverbed</a>”</p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>We’re one week closer to Halloween and deep in monster lore. Last week we learned about the Yeti. This week we’re going to learn about bigfoot-type legends from other parts of the world—specifically, Patagonia and Australia.</p> <p>Patagonia isn’t a country but a region at the southern tip of South America. Part of it is in Chile, part in Argentina. It includes the Andes Mountains, and the southern end is only 600 miles from Antarctica. People have lived in the area for at least 13,000 years and there are many different indigenous cultures still living there today.</p> <p>Much of South America was originally populated by the little-known Clovis People, who migrated into the Americas from Asia once the glaciers retreated from Alaska. The Clovis People are supposed to have arrived around 13,000 years ago, but archaeologists have dated some non-Clovis sites in both North and South America to much earlier than that. One theory is that an earlier human migration reached South America by sea from the South Pacific, although this is controversial. DNA studies of First Nations people suggest that there may have been an earlier migration from Asia into North America, po</p>
