For centuries, the bipedal primates, the Yowie, have been a part of Australian Aboriginal folklore. These include all unidentified representatives of the Hominid clan hiding in the Australian deserts. These creatures are related to yeti and bigfoot. The actual existence of the entity is considered highly questionable.
Yovies are usually two-legged, rarely walking on all fours. The body has thick brown or black fur. Standing straight and 2 meters high, individual specimens can be 3 or more meters. They spread a particularly fetid stench.
Back in the late 18th century, there were reports of large ape-like creatures in Australia. The first confirmation of the existence of Yovi dates back to 1881.
Yovie, also called Yowie-Whowie and Yahoo, may be derived from one of the mythological characters in Australian Aboriginal folklore. The characteristics of this creature and the legend sometimes overlap with those of the bunyip. According to some scholars, the yovee are creatures common in the legends and history of Australian Aboriginal tribes, especially in the eastern states of Australia.
Since the mid-1970s, the enthusiast Rex Gilroy, who declared himself a cryptozoologist, tried to popularize Yovi. He claimed to have collected over 3,000 reports of them, and assumed that they constituted relict populations of extinct apes or species of the genus of humans.
Reports of people seeing traces of Yovi continue to this day - in 2009, it was claimed that Yovi brought death and serious injury to pets such as dogs. Others have argued that it could be the result of attacks by wild animals such as dingoes.
No evidence of the presence or fossil of wild primates (other than modern humans) has been found on the Australian continent.