Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[LadyL]

In my own experience, we would occasionally see one or two large carrion birds (wedgetailed eagles) feeding from the carcass of a cow that had been hit by a road train in rural SA.

There are not groups of carrion birds there. - just one or two of them. If they are not flying, no-one will see them. And when the big birds are there, the smaller birds are not. And quite often, there are no birds there at all.

imo

I had to google 'road train'. Some are incredibly long. There's several different types too. We only have or I've ever only seen 2 or 3 long. Australia's are so long they have a special sign. Yes I can see cows not surviving impact of these huge truck-trains.

Road train - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[BreakingNews]

i assume police would have spoken to any friends, visitors who may have been watching the football with the family that day, i wonder if any of them actually saw little gus, or if anyone apart from gm said they saw him that day?

We don't know if any of the family watched the football. That was only a theory.

 

[CredibleSauce]

Respectfully, I don’t think you’re grasping the scale of these kinds of properties Dotta.

Sheep are prey animals and as such, are very responsive to “threats” - their hearing is far superior to ours, as is their sense of smell, so any unusual noise or sense that triggers their flight response has them off and running urgently.
Working with any livestock involves getting used to the animal’s “pressure zones” and “flight zones” and learning to notice the signs of each. This YouTube video shows a great example and this video from “The Livestock Collective” shows that knowledge used effectively in practice to count sheep - notice how the farmer moves just slightly to increase or decrease pressure on the mob controlling the speed they run and allowing her to count them.

Basically, sheep are going to run away when they hear people, vehicles etc. so it’s not unusual that you wouldn’t see them on any of the footage released so far. This includes helicopters, planes and drones (all of which are even used to muster sheep depending on the size and landscape of a property). Not to mention the fact that a property of 6000 hectares running 3000 sheep would technically provide space for 20,000 square metres per sheep. In practice they’ll be “mobbed up” or grazing nearby each other in particular paddocks, but you’re looking at a scale of essentially 16 Olympic sized swimming pools worth of space per sheep.

@LadyL my response to why you haven’t seen any sheep and likely won’t from the media footage.

 

[packetgravy]

So while the public message is calm and contained, what’s actually happening on the ground suggests something broader. There’s a definite mismatch between the language and the scale of what’s unfolding, and that’s hard to ignore.

I agree, this has been along the lines of my own thoughts. The scale of the search area alone is enough to indicate the investigation goes beyond a “lost little boy.”

“No evidence to suggest foul play” may also be interpreted in several ways. I also don’t agree, I consider a missing boy as baseline evidence.

A lack of evidence does not suggest an absence of evidence, after all, we do have a missing child and a questionable timeline. Further, the boy has not been found within the usual search perimeters in which 95% of children (in a similar age group) are found.

Something interesting about the missing person cases popping up in this thread (cases where the body was eventually discovered) is the parallels between distances of last known sighting and site of discovery.

 

[butterstick]

I agree the scale might hint at something more, but at the same time they may be thinking "we go hard now or regret a cold trail later". The WT comparisons might be weighing heavily atm.

 

[Marg944]

The spine-chilling find metres from where little Gus Lamont vanished

Searchers have once again begun to scour the harsh South Australian landscape in their search for Gus Lamont, who went missing at his family's Oak Park Station homestead.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Marg944]

Eighteen days have now passed since Gus vanished from his grandparents’ remote sheep station near Yunta, with personnel from police and Australian Defence Force returning to the property — this time with a new strategy, new search zones, and a new taskforce.”

Renewed search for Gus continues with mercury set to soar

Searchers will battle temperatures of up to 36C to find further clues.

7news.com.au