quicko: the yowie

The yowie is a great Australian beast, half-man, half-ape (or something like that), that roams the regions, intermittently allowing himself to be sighted by tens of thousands of ingenious people, although not simultaneously. They tell many tales of various kinds of yowies (they range in size) who are generally harmless, though enjoy playing the odd practical joke on passing humans. They do not exist the fossil record, though rumor has it that lone surfers occasionally turn into yowies if they fail to shower for months on end.