Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. (1985). Excessive hunting, combined with habitat destruction and introduced disease led to the rapid extinction of the species. Weve done it, cheers!. It seems unlikely hes lying, Brook says, because he could have fabricated a far more compelling account if hed wanted to. My wife works at the Werribee zoo in Melbourne and it certainly wasnt like any of the cats they have there. Waters told Guardian Australia in 2016 that he saw a thylacine in 2014 when he was doing work on his house and it walked past his bedroom window. ", "2005, Tregeagle; Rhys observed a golden-fawn thylacine-like animal. After 5 minutes I drove slowly towards it and at about 10 m in front of my car it suddenly pushed with its hind legs and with great power it ran off the road into the vegetation on all four legs. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. But it was so fast, it passed by unscathed. We have been troubled by irresponsible dog owners whose pets have eaten our free range chooks (now all well fenced) so actually got out of the car to photograph the animal but it calmly loped off and it was too dark to get a photo. The reserve water levels were down and it was where the water would normally be if the dam was full. 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.". All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. Before leaving they went for a walk along the rivers edge on a bush track. 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. Its not a dog, its not a cat. It was huge, almost one metre high. I had slowed for a couple of hundred rabbits and was just starting up again in my old morris minor 1000 when I came at slow speed, 15mph in 1977 upon a second group and right in the middle was a young tasmanian tiger with a poined head, kangaroo like fur and a long thin tail it sat facing me mesmerized by the lights as were the rabbits. A friend, Eric, told them that he had seen the same kind of animal cross the road in front of his car near Wooyung and although he applied the breaks he hit the animal. The next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. The size of a dog, it had a big distinctive head, brown fur and a stiff kangaroo-like tail. He suggested that what I'd seen mighta been a thylacine.". It was grey/brown with a lighter underside, especially under the chin. Wendy Bithell recounted her possible thylacine encounter near Byron Bay on the documentary series Boogeymen, season 2, episode 11, entitled "The Tasmanian Tiger: The Tiger, Wolf, Kangaroo Hybrid". Walkabout 34(12): 8. It looked straight at me before moving away. There was white around the muzzle and black around the ears. The front paw was lifted up near the snout. The trap had apparently caught something, but by the time he reached the cage it was empty. It was covered in short sandy fur, had a long thin head and face with upright ears. ", "19th February 2006, 5.30 am, North Ocean Shores; John & Pat had set off from their home at New Brighton for the Pottsville Market, where they would set up a pottery & jewellery stall, and had only reached the small bridge north of Redgate Road at North Ocean Shores travelling at 50 kph when they saw 2 strange animals standing on the road. That also means the IUCN will probably have to put the animal back onto the Red List and classify it as critically endangered, surely. Thylacine sighting, Gippsland Victoria, 1990's. There had been recent sightings claims by campers and others. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world authority on rare and threatened species, the thylacine a dog-sized predatory marsupial also known as the Tasmanian tiger was extinct in 1982. The last known individual died in 1936 in Hobart Zoo; the last reliable sighting of a wild one dates back to 1933. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia YouTube, posted a video to YouTube claiming he had discovered a "family" of thylacines on camera traps. Im not sure if this is a characteristic of the Thylacine. It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. The species died out some time after the mid-1960s. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. Earlier last year, on the road between Ballina and Eltham, just after the Alstonville turnoff, dad and my brother saw something similar. 'Tasmanian tiger' footage not of a thylacine but a pademelon, posted a video to YouTube claiming he had discovered a "family" of thylacines on camera traps, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. I slowed the car to a walk desperatly trying to follow its progress through the scrub. But on Feb. 23, TMAG and Mooney released a statement explaining the creature snapped in the footage was most likely a Tasmanian pademelon, a short, stout marsupial similar to a wallaby. Get all new ep The animal stood about 61cm off theground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. This probably reduced thylacine numbers to the point of no return. The thylacine has been used extensively as a symbol of Tasmania. The strange animal had a huge jaw that opened to an extent, greater than the dog, and it gave forth with a bizarre cry unlike anything that they had heard before. ", "2005, New Brighton; Gary and Sharmaine observed a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump. The location was 40 miles south of Singleton on the Putty Road. In other words, the thylacine either died out only two decades ago or astonishingly still persists. The date was Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, when we were forced to stop, at the turnoff to Evans Lookout, on the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath township. TMAG regularly receives requests for verification from members of the public who hope that the thylacine is still with us. ", "Not long after this experience I learnt that, between December 1971 and throughout January 1972, there had been a spate of sightings of an animal, or animals, answering to the description of the Thylacine, near Blackheath along the Great Western Highway in the vicinity of our sighting. Of the three color photos provided to Mooney, he spends the most time analyzing the photo at the top of this image. Pam noticed what looked like pale stripes across the back. "Rex claimed he saw a thylacine on Tuesday, February 22, 1972 at 10.15pm on the Great Western Highway, south of Blackheath. A well-known bushwalker who regularly visits the remote south-west, described a sighting during a drive back from Queenstown (near the west coast). A University of Melbourne research lab that has been working on the de-extinction of the Tasmanian tigerfor the past 15years announced it has partnered with a US-based genetic engineering company to boost efforts to bring the marsupial back. (p. 205), Source:Clark, Jerome. One report from the north-east was faithfully reported as 200m, but the measured distance was just under 400m, an impossible distance to see detail at.. the story of the thylacine took a different turn. Every one laughed at her and cried in disbelief A Tasmanian tiger in Byron Bay!". It was not a dog sound she madenothing like it. Our daily newsletter arrives just in time for lunch, offering up the day's biggest science news, our latest features, amazing Q&As and insightful interviews. She stated Im an artist and I paint native animals and the gait of this animal meant that it was a marsupial, not a dog or a cat. The last of thelarge marsupial predator species died in1936, butthe thylacinewas not officially declared extinct until 1982. Even more heartbreaking than an extinct species is a species driven to extinction solely by humans, such as the Tasmanian tiger. And Waters isn't budging. Waters claimed last week the footage showed "not ambiguous" evidence of the thylacine, but the video (which you can view below), is far from conclusive. It had very obvious stripes across the back and the base of the tail which blended in with the brown fur so that the stripes would not be so visible from further away. Rex Gilroy believes so, https://web.archive.org/web/20210225014002/http://garyopit.com/64-thylacine-sightings/, https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_mainpage.html, The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW, http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html, http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_casts.html, Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts', https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops, https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. Reports from other states and countries can be accessedhere. The Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, an amateur not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the elusive creature, claimed it had photographic evidence of three thylacines living happily in north-east Tasmania. WebWhile thylacine watchers say the number of sightings in South Australia alone is up to four in 2021, a new study gives hope 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. Casts made from these tracks would later be successfully compared with Thylacine paw casts from Tasmania, found by another researcher in 1974.The success of our expedition was publicised in the Lithgow Mercury newspaper", "Freshly made paw prints of one or more of these creatures found by ourselves and colleagues at another Blue Mountains location in 1983 and 1984. Then she found that the woman that worked in the store had recently observed two of the animals chasing and killing a swamp wallaby near her home just a few kms up the valley. and again as it loped away in a carefree manner. "2nd November 2006, 9 pm, Thursday, New Brighton; Rob was fishing at Casons Road, New Brighton, when they saw an unusual animal. He said other members of his family has seen the same animal on separate occasions, as had neighbours. 2023 CNET, a Red Ventures company. The monster's screams, according to one local resident, were like "a woeful cough that goes on and on, like a human being on their death bed". Here during September 1970, a tiger was seen and accurately described by a Mr Jim Neal, who spotted it as it ran across the Great Western Highway on the southern side of town. At one particular spot we came across paw prints unlike any of the others and certainly not those of any dog. (p. 26), "The Newnes Plateau country has lately [2015-2016] been the scene of a few tiger sightings, and paw prints finds which may, or may not have been made by Thylacines. It was about 18 inches tall at the shoulders, 4ft in length from head to tail, and it had short body hair of light sandy colour, with a row of dark stripes arranged along the body beginning at the shoulders to the rump of the tail. I saw it dash up a 4ft embankment into scrub, a greyish-furred, black body-striped animal. The tail was thicker at the base than at the tip and was about 1ft in length. ", "In March 1982, a camper sighted a thylacine-like animal drinking from a creek in the Grose valleyThe camper described the animal he saw as being two metres long, with greyish body fur {coloration can vary} displaying about a dozen blackish stripes extending down the body. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. Rex Gilroy took plaster casts of tracks he claims were made by a thylacine: "He also claimed he found thylacine paw prints in January 2015, while walking his dog on a fire trail near Blackheath. All rights reserved. The father and a neighbour got a hassion bag and threw it over the animal. They were seen shortly after by a motorist driving on Hawkesbury Road through Winmalee about 9pm, when they crossed the road to be caught in his headlights.". Update: February 23 @ 4.35pm: Sadly, it looks like this wont in fact be the discovery of the century, as the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery determined the animals in the images are Tassie pademelons. It then ran off under a barb wire fence to disappear into the regrowth vegetation.". As we were driving towards Rosebank, I saw an animal about the size of a whippet dash across a grassy slope. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". It would have been great if I had been able to get even one photo of the creature.", "I was driving out west of nsw 60 km west of Balranald when I came upon a tassie tiger at 2am. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world authority on rare and threatened species, the thylacine a dog-sized predatory marsupial also known as the Tasmanian tiger was extinct in 1982. Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. In order to point the domain to your server, please login here to manage your domain's settings. He signed off: Congratulations everyone. She said that its gait was awkward looking, and looked like it was loping because its front legs were shorter than its back legs, and it looked quite ungainly as it ran. WebThe thylacine is a carnivorous marsupial which is considered to be extinct, with the last known member of the species dying in 1936. When Naarding reached for his camera bag after several minutes, the movement spooked the creature, and it slunk away into the undergrowth. Grabbing his camera Kevin leapt from his car and, as he said later, tore up the embankment after it! 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. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. The head, he observed, appeared too big for the body, and from the mid-back to the tail rump were faint black coloured body stripes.". It was only when my other daughter said that her description of the creature sounded like a thylacine that she was able to definitely identify it from pictures that she found on the internet. 11 animal species that have come back fom the brink of extinction. document.links[t].setAttribute('onClick', 'javascript:window.open(\''+all_links.href+'\'); return false;'); Others are less sure about whether the use of these sightings records is appropriate. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5-14. It is obvious a colony of six to eight of these creatures exists in the gully. The largest remnant bushland in western NSW. It scratched itself with its hind leg like a dog. In 2017, scientists from James Cook University in Queensland also conducted a search for the marsupial after multiple plausible sightings. The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. We came to the Pilliga. There was just one problem with this remarkable sighting. It had already crossed the road heading west into gum forest, but stopped, standing side on as I approached about 100ft from it. These were able to hold their own in a fight with a dog and would attack if put under pressure. They see the back end of an animal, they see the colour and their mind fills in the rest. Rex Gilroy, during an expedition north of the Grose Valley: "We returned to the swamp last February, and found more evidence. Forrest Galante, an American television host with the Animal Planet channel, added to the earlier hype when he shared the video about the potential wildlife rediscovery of the century on Twitter. Theres a tangible sense that it was here, and that we should have saved it while we had the opportunity.. It had a large head with golden eyes and widely separated rounded ears. Had it been left by a thylacine? Ummm but then I started thinking about it you know, what was it that I saw? Spooky to see the drawing on the web site and realise what it might be!", "the tasmania tiger is thriving around bilambil Hieghts Inner bushland, it was spotted only a couple of weeks ago by 2 well educated people driving up hogans road, it ran across the road into the bushland, description was a huge tan brown dog cat like creature with black stripes down it side, they said it didnt look like a dog and was much bigger but did resemble a big cat panther like but simarlarities of both, thet said it was fast but they still got plenty of vision of this creature", "During May 2010 a female Thylacine and cub were seen moving through bushland not far from Wombeyan Caves by campers. We were driving on xxxx Rd at the time. The animal had apparently appeared from out of nearby bush to stand under the street light. Main image: A thylacine at Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, Australie. He was camped at the old army hut and was driving to the logging coup on the western side of Peach Mountain lookout at 5 am on a Monday morning when he observed a thylacine cross the road 3 metres in front of his car. (1968). Here's what they think of a Voice to Parliament, Prime minister says urgent care clinics will start relieving pressure on NT's busy emergency wards in coming months, NRL concedes error on crucial golden point call, 'We really need massive help': Sudan refugees give birth in camps without medical help or shelter. WebMYS251: The Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger lived in Australia for thousands of years, but went extinct in 1936. ", "20th August, 2008, Coast Road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park; David Hall emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe his sighting. The striped-bodied animal was too large to have been anything else. "Theirstriking similaritiesare the result of convergentevolution, a process where different animals evolve to look the same because they occupy similar places in the ecosystem," their report states. Things kicked off on February 22nd with a video from Neil Waters, president of TAGOA (Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia. An enigmatic report of an animal called a "hyena", which was one of the colonial names for the thylacine, killed in 1803: "Two animals of the hyena kind were seen at Campbell's Island by hunting parties belonging to the Mary and Sally ; from the description given of which they appear to have been of the same species with an animal killed at Port Phillip in 1803.". Driving on deeper into the range we stopped to investigate an extensive tract of swampland, whose muddy shoreline contained paw prints of wombats, wallabies, bandicoots, possums and dingos. The sightings after 1936 included 26 reported deaths and 16 reported . "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. He signs off the video with, "Enjoy looking at a baby thylacine walking through the bush of northern Tasmania. A Mum, Dad and Joey! He reported I can say that what I saw did not look like anything I have witnessed before. It disappeared behind the fig tree and did not re emerge. The headlights provided us with a good look at the creature. The balance of probability is that the thylacine is gone, yet this animal continues to maintain a hold over almost anyone with an interest in natural history who visits Tasmania (along with many who dont). A group of residents conducted an armed search of Myrtle Creek but found nothing. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. func(); } More Controversy on the Roswell Affair: An Alien Accident? https://t.co/0vMqexHsBO. Theres at least one operator who will organise devil restaurants, where roadkill wallabies are staked out in front of a hide to lure them in. It smelled of musk, like a mild skunk or possum odour. Its head was not dog-like; it had a short muzzle with pointy ears, a proud stance and kangaroo-like hips. WebCall Us Today! Anonymous. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. The time was 11.25pm, when, just past the houses and oval, Mike clearly saw a Thylacine [there was, he said, no mistaking the body stripes and other features] running onto the road from left to right ahead of his car, illuminated by his headlights. Waters sent his photographs to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for analysis by Nick Mooney, a thylacine expert. But unconfirmed sightings have regularly been reported for decades. Waters said this would put the thylacine in a much stronger position than its been in for the last 30-something years referring to the 1990s for some reason. The creature, said Shannon, remained there for perhaps 2 to 5 minutes as they stood observing it. Barry Brook, a conservation biologist at the University of Tasmania, pre-published a paper on the marsupial, in which he analysed more than 1,200 sightings and other records dating from 1910 to the present day. It moved only once, opening its jaw and showing its teeth.. No stripes but a hint of black on legs and ears, white muzzle, like you might see on an elderly dog, black nose. The encounter lasted in full no more than 15 seconds. Mr Millar said he had seen old pictures of the Tasmanian Tiger, which is believed to be extinct, but the animal he saw was smaller and did not have stripes on its body.". ", "The Minto Monster was back in the news again in 1973 when claims that a mysterious creature had been 'terrorising' East Minto residents with its blood curdling screams.

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