Australia's answer to Sasquatch: a heavily built bipedal hominid, two to three meters tall, reported from the ranges of the east coast for as long as there have been people there to report it. The Gundungurra and Dharug peoples of the Blue Mountains knew the doolagahl — 'hairy man' — as a presence to be respected and left alone, long before the Sydney press printed its first story in 1876.
The modern report file runs to thousands of entries and reads like the North American one transposed: overpowering odor, tree-knocks, rocks thrown from cover with pointed accuracy, dogs that refuse to work, and a figure standing on the ridgeline in failing light that is emphatically not a kangaroo.
The biogeographic argument against a large undiscovered primate in Australia is, the archive concedes, formidable. The consistency of the accounts across two centuries and two very different cultures is the counterweight.