I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. John was adamant that they were not foxes, dogs or dingos all of which he is very familiar with after spending 20 years at Lakes Entrance in eastern Victoria. These tracks were at least several hours old. "16th January 2006, Monday, 3.30 am, Andersons Hill, Mullumbimby; Michael and Fabiola where returning home along Gulgun Road adjacent Everrits Creek, 400m north of the Mullumbimby intersection and the Uncle Toms Pies service station, when they observed a strange animal coming towards them along the eastern side of the road. The creature had escaped into scrubland which extends eastward to a gully which drops down into the Grose Valley-where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported by campers and bushwalkers to the present day. The tigers, or thylacines, were. So from that experience I do believe they are still knocking around.". He described it as "clear as a day". The hocks were pronounced and lowit rocked back on them when it loped away. I was 2-3 metres from it for several minutes. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was a marsupial an animal that keeps its young in a pouch, like a kangaroo. In November 1993, during a holiday in northern Queensland, the author met a man who witnessed a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) on Cape York Peninsular. It was grey with dark grey mottling on its rump like bands, it had distinctive large round ears and was quite unlike a dog or fox. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. With all due respect I disagree with Nick Mooneys opinion and thats fine - thats perfectly OK - and he encourages me in his report to get as many opinions as I can because his is only one opinion, Mr Waters says in the new video. Share your thoughts in the comments below or vote in our poll above, To join the conversation, please After about 5 min I took off again south desperatly trying to get my head around what I had just seen 20 min south of Broken Hill!! We have seen this mystery animal at least twice now and in fact had assumed it was a wild dog and reported it to NPWS for dog baiting! Thylacine winter. The tail, he noticed, was long and pointed, and followed the slope of the back. Nonetheless, recent Tasmanian tiger sightings have continued to persist since its apparent extinction, and these Thylacine sightings have some scientists seriously asking do Tasmanian tigers still exist? It had distinctive stripes across its back & rump, which sloped down to a long kangaroo-like tail. ", "I believe i saw a saw a Thylocene at the base of the Barrington tops near Wolemi brook on the 21/7/08 at around 11 am, whilst i was travelling to a remote a exploration drill rig site. At one particular spot we came across paw prints unlike any of the others and certainly not those of any dog. The document includes detailed accounts of alleged close encounters with the mysterious predator across the northern and western regions of the state. At that time sheep were being killed and torn up in Hartley Valley by a Tasmanian Tiger-like beast, and that is what I believed ran in front of my car. Source:https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm. Despite all official . The animals watched the approaching car for a few seconds and then raced off into the bush. "26th January 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; at around 6 a.m. (Australia Day) Russel was driving from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads. Passing the Titania Motel [Oberon] sign at the Oberon turnoff, he spotted an animal with black body stripes the size of a large dog, as it ran across the Jenolan road from left to right into bush. On September 7, 1936, the final Thylacine, which became known as Benjamin died in captivity. 198-208], "1982, Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, Greys Lane, Tyagarah, Uki and Terania Creek; Rabbit observed 5 times at 5 different locations as above, a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump, always around 4 a.m. when driving before first light on his delivery rounds. (1977). "14 years ago I was working as an assistant to a geophysicist during a large survey 30 or so miles out of Broken Hill when we began sighting a very strange creature almost on a daily basis, usually in the mornings as wed arrive to begin our work. The Thylacinidae family was a diverse group of approximately ten different species of dog-like, carnivorous marsupials. It had 10 to 12 very pale stripes across the rear portion of the body with slightly wider stripes on the back & narrower stripes on the rump. It had the strangest tailvery long, like a broom pole. (2017). In December 2006 at 9.30 a.m. she again saw the same animal with three young cubs chasing and playing together on the road. But one expert said hed only put a $50 bet down that it was the famed Aussie animal - a safe bet Mr Waters agrees at the end of the clip. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". Listen 7m northcoast-curious-tasmanian-tiger-0311 Since then, sightings of animals people believed to be thylacines have come from all over Australia, including more than 70 reported sightings in northern New South Wales. ", "1997, Mt Warning; Heidi described her brothers observation of a thylacine. This is the only report of a mother and its young.". In the few seconds before the animal dashed off the road into the darkness of the catchment scrub, we were able to get a good look at it. According to Mr Pereira the animals body fur was a light brown colour with dark stripes along its body and it had a long thin strait tail which it did not wag.". ", "A friend, Haley, told them that around about 1996 she had observed a large cat-like creature with a plain coloured body and a banded furred tail leap across Coopers Creek behind Durrumbul north of Mullumbimby in northeastern NSW. Rex's documentary on the species, starting with this sighting: "Back in May 1972 a Sydney bushwalker, Mr Noel Wright, got the surprise of his life, when a Thylacine emerged from ferns to stand momentarily on the track between Ruined Castle and Mount Solitary. Numbats are closely related to the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. It was not a dog. From a17ab7a789aa20e5c49f7f9de9dca94c364755b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: BOB603049648 603049648@qq.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:48:33 +0800 Subject: [PATCH . Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. ", "September, 2005, 7am, Billinudgel Nature Reserve; on the trail that runs parallel to the beach several hundred metres north of the central trail entrance into the reserve. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. The tail went downward toward the ground, said John. *Its colouring was a deep outback red. I was excited to hear that there have been several reported sightings of Tasmanian tigers in the recent years. The tiger tracks were found in a hanging swamp area which was part of a rain forest on the south side of the mountain. He passed it and stopped the car but it had disappeared into the bush by the time he looked back. I was thinking how cool it was that I'd saved a little pademelon from being eaten by something. Of course, this is primarily due to humans taking over the world. *It had strong powerful hind legs*smaller front legs*A long stiff tail that pointed straight out. This is Opit's summarisation of the report: "1964, May, Monday, 5 a.m. Whian Whian State Forest; Clive gave me a very detailed description of the animal observed twice in 1 week. Another report, filed by a farmer in a cycling group, claims to have seen a "large cat-like creature" from a distance on the Lyell Highway. Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. Most data was collected from old material. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. Story. Then they all descended back through the bananas to head for home. With the bag over the animals head they were able to safely release it back into the wild. She stated No stripes, but a distinctly wild animal, reddish brown short hair, above knee-high. It had a large head with golden eyes and widely separated rounded ears. It occured roughly 30km from the first, some twenty years earlier. RELATED: 40 Funniest Wildlife Photos Ever. 5 BEST Tasmanian Tiger Sightings Caught On VIDEO - YouTube 0:00 / 11:53 #Thylacine #TasmanianTiger 5 BEST Tasmanian Tiger Sightings Caught On VIDEO Wildlife With Cookie 18.8K subscribers Join. Mr Waters latest video includes a series of interviews with experts ruling out all kinds of animals they could be, one of them the pademelon. He said the creature had at least 19 black body stripes, extending from mid-back to tail-rump and was about 1.52 metres long from nose to tail-tip. They said when they saw it, they both said "what was that", because it looked different to anything they had seen before. Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". The discovery of the carcase in the area of Eucla, and my observation of the live specimen, convinces me that the animal still exists on the mainland of Australia.". I wish Id gone back to sit, wait and watch just to cure my curiosity. Like most marsupials, the female had a pouch hence the scientific name. The tapered tail and we could see the faint stripes. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. These tracks were however barely half an hour old, and we were able to follow the movements of the Thylacine, observing how it had emerged from a nearby gully to move through foliage to the muddy shoreline, and walk along it for some metres, before stopping to drink at the waters edge, then return the way it had come. The last Tasmanian tiger is believed to have died in captivity in 1936, but sightings like the ones released from Tasmania have persisted for years, with most of the sightings coming from spotters . At this moment they both saw a greyhound-like animal, long and skinny, run across the highway from the right-hand side [south] to the left [north]. Hunting, the introduction of dogs and the loss of habitat were to blame for its demise. During the course of our search we uncovered a sandstone shoal containing water pools with ancient Aboriginal stone axe grinding grooves, and a rock shelter containing surface stone flakes manufactured around 6,000 years ago. "In September 1999, Mr Phil Smith and his wife Kassi were driving from the west on the Great Western Highway at 60 to 70 km an hour, slowing down as they approached a fruit shop at Linden on the left-hand side of the road. I am a geologist and had another geologist see it too. The location was 40 miles south of Singleton on the Putty Road. It was the vocalization that really threw me. It didnt taper, or wag. of a creature he believed to be a Tasmanian tiger. It was shaped like a kangaroos tail, but held straight out behind instead of dragging on the ground. Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) revealed there have been eight reported sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the past three years. There is a maze of crevices and caverns in which any animal could live unseen, and it was into this gully that the tiger tracks led. Farmer opens up Tassie tiger mystery. Before it vanished off the roadside I noticed its length, about 5ft, the body stripes were blackish and ran from the middle of the back to the rump of the tail upon reddish-brown coloured body fur.". ", "2003, Byron Bay on the coastal road to Ballina 2ks past the Lennox Head turnoff; Doof daddy contacted the ABC radio station to say that about 5 years ago in 2003 he was returning to Byron Bay from Ballina along the coastal road after work in the early hours of the morning. It was about 18 kg, fawn coloured short dense fur. The tail was thickly furred. (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. It looked like a stretched-out greyhound, 30% longer in the body than a dog. Had it been left by a thylacine? The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. Both animals disappeared within seconds into the rainforest.". . newspaper articles, books, CD's etc.). "In September, 1983, I led a search into this region [i.e. Source:Hunt, Elle. But this is no small feat. Anonymous. The difference, of course, is that Sasquatch is entirely mythical, while the Tasmanian Tiger was a real marsupial that only went extinct about a hundred years ago. Now, a newly released government document has revealed sightings have been reported as recently as two months ago. (2017). It displayed no fear and was the gentlest sweetest creature I have ever seen. The head looked Alsatian-like but had shorter, thicker ears than a greyhound. There was white around the muzzle and black around the ears. These extended from about the mid-back onto the tail rump. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. Other residents in the area, however, did not share this explanation. The animal can reach up to 1.3 meters (51 inches) long, with its tail accounting for between 19-25 inches of that total (Campbell). Here it is. It was thin and brownish and had a long thin tail. ", "in February 1984 we organised another expedition to this remote area with Rod Gurney and Robert Ashworth, and found more Thylacine paw prints in the swamp mud. A screenshot of the video was also posted to Imgur.. Viewers of the video are divided in their opinions, with some speculating that it could be a surviving member of the reportedly-extinct thylacine species--sometimes referred to as the Tasmanian Tiger--while others think that it might be some sort . The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. By Cameron Baud and Bryce Luff / VIC News. He said other members of his family has seen the same animal on separate occasions, as had neighbours. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. They weighed 33 to 66 lbs. Local naturalists were convinced from the general description, that the mystery carnivore was a Thylacine. maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. Questions do arise about this bizarre revelation. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. The animal was so close that he almost hit it as it reached the other side of his vehicle. Phil described the animal as having body fur of a burnt colour [ie blacky-brown], with a row of orangey-brown stripes extending barrel-wise from about mid-body to tail rump. It must be the boofiest pademelon head around, he says. Yet, when I went to the Lithgow Police Station to report my sighting, all they did was laugh at me and said I was crazy", Author?. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. The trap had apparently caught something, but by the time he reached the cage it was empty. ", "2004, Clothiers Creek Road, Cabarita; Joslyn, of Kingscliff, saw a thylacine on Clothiers Creek Road at 9.30 am as she was coming into Cabarita. It was definitely not a dog. ", "18th November, 1997, 9 a.m. North Tumbulgum; Hogans Rainforest Nature NSW / Qld border, Jan and two other family members observed on their property a striped dog-like animal with a head almost like a kangaroo and stripes continuing onto the long stiff tail. Join the conversation, you are commenting as. (1982). "Since the 19th century, theres been claims of them living in the Jenolan range.". The owner remarked that they would have to kill the animal as he would not allow a monster to live on the farm. which is not far from Sydney's International airport and along the shores of Botany Bay. It reminded them of a Fossa or a civet and definitely was not a fox, dog or cat. The head and everything else about it compared with pictures he had seen of Thylacines, and it was also a thin-bodied animal, which would surely make it a male [females being thicker set animals]. north of Grose Valley] accompanied by expert bushmen Rod Gerney and Robert Ashworth and several assistants in a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles.. In 1978 one friday I had done a days work, come home packed the car, driven 60 km into the Barringtons, set up camp, drank 2 cans of beer, it was on the darker side of dusk when i went to have a close look at a tree just out side the head light beam of my car when I heard a noise, I turned my head and about 4 feet (1.3 m) from me in the light beam of my car a tasie tiger walked past me.". Whatever it was it most certainly was neither a dog nor a dingo. Weighing approximately 25kg, the Thylacine was around 60cm tall at the shoulder, with a body roughly 115cm long and a 50-65cm long tail. Its ears were not as big as a roo or a fox. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. ", "1995, Coopers Lane, Main Arm; Hayley observed a golden-fawn animal with a striped tail. Of particular interest was that the animal that he saw had no stripes on the body, though it did have pale bands along the tail. ", "15th January 2003, 9.30 am, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Mailman Peter drove right up to a strange looking animal standing on an earth bank on the southern section of Stock Route Road, just behind Billinudgel. ", Source: Gilroy, Rex. The animal vanished off the highway into the darkness in seconds into roadside scrub. It was an extraordinary experience, being so close to this animal. Nick Mooney, Honorary Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, last week said that based on the physical characteristics shown in the photos, the animals were very unlikely to be thylacines. Another search of the farm and its surrounds failed to turn up anything new, and the creature did not return.". It was covered with tawny short hair with dark stripes across the back and its gait was noticeably unusual. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. 13 May 1930 - Last thylacine killed in the wild. The Tasmanian tiger was a carnivorous marsupial found in Australia and New Guinea until its extinction in the 1930s. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. Australias colonisation also heralded the erosion of the Thylacines habitat, the simultaneous extinction of its prey such as the Tasmanian native hen, and the introduction of wild dogs by European settlers. Then seeing us, turned and dashed off into the darkness. Its body fur was a mousy-brown colour with greyish stripes extending barrel-wise along the body. I walked to the spot were the animal had been and found a small dead wombat "gutted", a very strange sight for the plains. Black and white footage of Benjamin recorded in 1933 would become historically significant as the final images of the final Thylacine. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. [Available from Lulu]. It seemed to be stationary for a second or two as it was down the end of a long stretch of road so I managed a pretty good look. 7:30pm when in front of me on the side of the road, eating a dead kangaroo, was a medium/large long, slender dog shaped animal with a kangaroo-style tail. My daughter did not know about thylacines before the sighting. The Tasmanian Tiger was a sandy brown-yellow and had dark stripes wrapped around its back. In 1961, a creature killed at Sandy Cape in Queensland was identified tentatively as a Tasmanian tiger. In 1957, a specimen was reportedly spotted from a helicopter. (2022). It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. There was very little traffic on the roads. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. It was probably heading for the nearby Grose Valley, he said.". But, he adds, "society will not protect an animal it thinks is extinct. My mother in the passenger seat (who grew up in B/Hill) could only splutter "what is that?!" The tail was thick at the base and as long as the body, was round in cross section and went to a point. It had already crossed the road heading west into gum forest, but stopped, standing side on as I approached about 100ft from it. "On the 25th January 1982, about 10pm, Mr Darryl Morris and his wife Carrol were driving to Mount Riverview. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub and situated at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. Generally, although dog-like, it was not Canid, because of the structure of the hind part of the body. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particularroute. She seemed extremely curious-cautious. The coat was like a newly sheared sheep in looka short, uniform length, fawn to light brown, and very dense, not laying flat like a dog or cat or even horse coat. We could not see stripes. Robyn was driving near the Club House just before entering Cliff Drive, where a two, roofed house stands amid pine trees, on the corner opposite the golf course and beside a, when in the headlights glare they both saw a Thylacine, According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a, mewhat like a cat. We sighted it again a couple of days later from a distance, and finally on the third occasion I was fortunate enough to get an excellent view of it. They found no evidence of the Thylacines existence. Mr Pereira dispatched the casts along with the teeth and blood samples to university zoologists in Sydney, but received little response, other than the explanation that the creature was probably a domestic dog. I think it was young about 12-13 inches from the ground to the top of its back.I didn't see any stripes and I don't think it had any but it was obviously a marsupial. He says the animal also has short feet like a Tasmanian tiger and shiny hocks, with evidence of striping on the tail. Both times it was too difficult to see it properly, because it was travelling so quickly. However, around 2,000 years ago, it became confined to the small island state of Tasmania, which is why it became known as the Tassie Tiger. Without hesitation, he put down his soup spoon, seized his gun from the wall, pushed a couple of cartridges into . It stopped looked at us approaching then ran off in to the bushes. In all cases I have clearly cited the source. We were driving at 20mph speed, when, turning a corner I saw this strange dog-like animal as did Carrol, as it emerged from bushes on the right-hand side of the road. This odd creature obviously seemed to reside in the valley we had found it in and the co-ordinates I gave specified exactly how to find it, yet they couldn't give a damn! ", "July 2011, 9.30 pm, Falls Road, Nimbin; Ms. Tarang Bates was driving home from Lismore when she saw an animal, covered in grey-fawn fur with dark stripes, unlike anything that she had ever seen before. It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. The family set steel traps to catch rabbits/hares that were pests in the area. He and his friend were quite close to the base of the mountain when they passed an odd looking animal. That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. The elderly chaps sighting was about ten years ago in the same area, closer to dawn, about 6am.". I was sitting there going "what was it?". These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. The stone missed its mark and the animal, looking up, saw the people and ran at great speed up the slope with a very unusual gait. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. The wolf-like thylacine . Victorian Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports - The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database The database currently contains 10,981 species and subspecies (as of September 2022). It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from MegalongValley near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. I did report it at the time my husband saw it, to an on-line group or organisation. Source: Gilroy, Rex. #6.1-6.3), "Pete was next talking to the father of one of his childrens friend at The Pocket School, who owns a cattle farm opposite the school. The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. Fabiola was driving and so Michael was able to examine the animal closely from only 2 metres away and observed that it was 60 to 70 cm high and 1.3m long, the length of the body quite long when compared to its height. Michael noticed that it had a distinct waddle of the back legs as it walked and he watched it turn away from him and saw that it had a white band at the end of the tail with a black tip. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. At least eight sightings of Tasmanian tigers have been reported recently, reviving speculation the mammal is not extinct, as scientists insist. Rod and I later staked out the site overnight with cameras, in the hope of capturing a tiger on film as it came to drink at the swamp, but failed to see any. The film was recently colorized by Composite Films in Paris. Im not sure if this is a characteristic of the Thylacine. It stood half a metre tall and was about 1 metre in length from nose tip to tail. I thought it looked a silver colour but it was hard to tell because it was raining.", "5thMarch 2006, Sunday, Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby; Elle and her family saw a strange animal in their garden close to the house and watched it as it ran down to the creek. 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