This heart-stopping big cat encounter is an Aussie best-kept secret – The Sydney Morning Herald

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This heart-stopping big cat encounter is an Aussie best-kept secret – The Sydney Morning Herald

It occurs to me on the drive to South Australia’s 1500-hectare Monarto Safari Park, the largest outside Africa, that the only thing that will soon …

Jonathan Downes

Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.