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drop bear preparing to attack
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Vicious drop bear defending its territory.

The drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is an Australian predatory, carnivorous version of the koala. Drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials that inhabit treetops and attack unsuspecting people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above.

The Drop Bear (Thylarctos plummetus) is "a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the koala", the size of a leopard, having coarse orange fur with dark mottling, with powerful forearms for climbing and attacking prey, and a bite made using broad powerful premolars rather than canines. They weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb) and have a length of 130 centimetres (51 in).