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. The trap had apparently caught something, but by the time he reached the cage it was empty. The headlights provided us with a good look at the creature. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. It looked used to civilisation she said. I was going through that process and I, and it, it didn't work. I have rung and reported this to my local veterinarian.". She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. Sightings of a strange greyhound-like animal with black body stripes had been made by people in the Blaxland Road area of Wentworth Falls, where it had been raiding homes for food. It was very dark brown in colour, its back was distinctly hunched and it was stationary. But, he adds, "society will not protect an animal it thinks is extinct. Despite all official . It didnt run. I thought it was a cat at first but as I approached, it didnt scurry as a cat would. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. ", "2005, South Golden Beach, Kolora Way; Lyndel observed a thylacine-like animal without stripes.". ", "1997, 4am, Uki; Peter described his sighting of 1997 on the Murwillumbah Road to Uki near the intersection with Mount Warning Road at 4am when he observed what at first he thought was a fox on the side of the road. The most remarkable feature was the strange manner of running: although the animal was swinging regularly sideways, the hind part of the body made a kind of bobbing up and down movement; the impression was as if the animal was drunk, as I had never seen anything like it. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. It then took off but didn't bounce like a kangaroo. "There's nothing there that's concrete," he told AAP of the newest reported sightings, adding it was "very unlikely" the animal is still out there. "'There's nothing there that's concrete.'". With the bag over the animals head they were able to safely release it back into the wild. It was only about a metre or two in front of my car. 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. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. The narrator says the Tasmanian tiger is a "dangerous opponent" who is no longer able to live in its natural habitat. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. 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! All times AEDT (GMT +11). It became obvious to us that a colony of from 6 to 8 of these elusive creatures existed in the gully. Farmer opens up Tassie tiger mystery. It was a bit after dusk. Theres no doubt in my mind it was a Thylacine, one without stripes (Tassie tigers were reported without stripes in the 1900s) Apparently they have up to a 40km range which they trek each month. "We live on a sugar cane farm close to Murwillumbah in North Eastern NSW. More from Local News These tracks were at least several hours old. Source:Paramanov, S. J. Victorian Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports Reports from other states and countries can be accessed here. I really did not think about it too much until about 10 years later when I saw pictures of the strange animal I encountered that day. 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. The family set steel traps to catch rabbits/hares that were pests in the area. I had my large driving lights on which clearly picked out an animal in front of my car about 2 kms north past the Lennox Head turnoff. It had a rigid tail. I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. It was the movement of its pelvis and its shyness and the way it dropped its head and pushed its pelvis up and hopped into the bush that alerted me to the fact that this was a different animal to any Id seen before. "'There is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. The salted skin of a freshly shot tiger cat was pegged on the dunny door, Max said. It then ran across the road as I pulled up. One witness, ranger Peter Simon. The hocks were pronounced and lowit rocked back on them when it loped away. It was about 5ft from head to tail tip and up to 1 ft tall. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". The size of a dog, it had a big distinctive head, brown fur and a stiff kangaroo-like tail. We could not see stripes. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. Weighing approximately 25kg, the Thylacine was around 60cm tall at the shoulder, with a body roughly 115cm long and a 50-65cm long tail. [January 1979 sighting by married couple at night], "1979, Tyagarah; David saw a strange thylacine-like animal and it reminded him of the Tyagarah Lion observations that people had talked about over the years.". 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. We wasted no time in driving to his property. I have not seen one like this before. Before leaving they went for a walk along the rivers edge on a bush track. Over 7000 to be exact. What do you think about the photos? "The same type of animal was seen killing a sheep in Megalong Valley in January 1987. The neighbour heard the commotion as well. . While the unconfirmed sightings may fuel the hopes of some, the thylacine is still widely considered to be extinct. He only saw the Thylacine twice during the same week, approximately 3 years after he began working in those ranges. By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild had become extremely rare and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilf Batty shot and killed the last known wild Tasmanian tiger. It was an animal of similar size as I saw and it passed in front of their car so close that both thought it was certain to be hit. They noticed that another passing motorist also saw it. I am a geologist and had another geologist see it too. I write about freedom, history, nature, hypocrisy and anything that tickles my mind. It walked, trotted and loped. ", "I was driving up the Gap Road at the time when it ran across the road ahead of me, so close that I almost ran over it. We were driving on xxxx Rd at the time. Last February, two visitors claimed an animal with a "stiff tail and striped back" wandered in front of their car at Corinna in the island's west. "(The department) occasionally receives reports of thylacine sightings," the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said in a statement. However, in 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger died, and the Thylacine was considered extinct. The only thing I found that approximately resembled the creature were pictures of marsupial cats, with the obvious difference that the creature I sighted had dark stripes, not white spots. The dog and the people chased the animal into a large hollow log where it crouched to stare at them. He stated that it didnt look like some unusual hybrid but a species of carnivorous marsupial. The tail was thick at the base and as long as the body, was round in cross section and went to a point. It didnt taper, or wag. 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. Peter had been involved in greyhound racing for many years and so was positive that the animal was neither a dog nor a fox and appeared to be a carnivorous marsupial.". Then it just loped off the road into the yard, Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. ", "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. "During April 1967 sightings of a 'tiger' were being made at Putty Road farms, particularly in the Howes Valley area, where some poultry had been claimed snatched by one, perhaps two of these creatures. Lopping once again and this time I was closer and still it made no sudden movement like it wasnt scared of my car. The moon was in the clouds with a bit of moonlight shining down. The animal stood about 61cm off theground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. 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.". This is only to make it easier for the reader to access these reports, which would otherwise be spread over many websites and other mediums (e.g. Tasmanian tigers were well-adapted to the climate, with eight types of hair including hollow hairs to trap heat A microscopic examination of the recently rediscovered pelt revealed the animal's fur varied in coarseness, shape and colour, and it had at least three layers of body hair. The animal was going for a gully that stands on the eastern side of the highway.". We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. Tasmanian tigers grew to between 39 and 51 inches, with a 20-inch tail. 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 has a distinctly grey striped torso, long pointed muzzle, and a thick rigid tail. (2022). ", "1992, 8.30 pm, Coopers Shoot Road, Bangalow; Vicki said that the weirdest animal appeared in the middle of the road. (year?). It was covered with short golden-fawn fur with black shadowy marks on the fur tips across the rump like vague bands. Following this animal were 3 smaller identical animals. Then seeing us, turned and dashed off into the darkness. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable, it was an undoubted Thylacine. Eight alleged sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wilderness have been reported to the state government over the past three years. "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. Just outside the town was a small separate community called Brown Town by the locals. It had stripes that were not bold. By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild became extremely rare, and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilfred (Wilf) Batty shot and killed the last-known wild Tasmanian tiger. Thylacine winter. They did not believe that it was a dog, dingo or a fox. The picture of a thylacine on the Tasmanian Cascade Beer label would be the closest animal to what we saw. Reports from other states and countries can be accessedhere. 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. The creature looked like a dog-possum-bird-kangaroo, but was none of these. I believe the animal was heading for a gully that drops down into the Grose Valley, where other striped-bodied, dog-like animals [surely Thylacines] have been seen by people over many years. The time was around midnight as they left the Country Club road into Cook Road, then turned into Banksia Road on their way home. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extended, The animal turned to look at the women in the car. Efforts to track the animal or animals down were made, it is said but all failed due to the general inaccessibility of the forest country. He realised that only one species could answer the dog-like physical appearance of this strange animal, and that was a Tasmanian Tiger. They weighed 33 to 66 lbs. ", "In 1975, one Springwood farmer reported attacks on his fowlyard by a large striped, dog-like animal, and almost shot the creature one day as it escaped over a fence with a hen in its mouth.". Three years later the last of its kind in captivity, named Benjamin, died a lonesome death in the Hobart Zoo. 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. Refresh the. The creature then ran down the side of a house into scrub. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. It scratched itself with its hind leg like a dog. They were somewhat smaller than a German Sheppard dog, much larger than a fox and one individual was smaller and was standing in front of the larger animal. Questions do arise about this bizarre revelation. (2017). I decided that this was not a wallaby but, from its distinctive body shape, a carnivorous marsupial. He said the animal, which he claimed could not be confused with a dog, was the size of a fox, with the head of a kangaroo and had a thick striped tail which tapered at the end. It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. 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.". We failed to find any other prints hereabouts, yet it is very likely that these mystery marsupial carnivores will return to the area at some stage. Sometimes you just need to know when to let the squirrel win the day. He described it as "clear as a day". It had distinctive stripes across its back & rump, which sloped down to a long kangaroo-like tail. "Mr Turner told us that, in 1973, he was driving along the Great Western Highway from Katoomba to Blackheath late one night when, near the [now demolished] Katoomba Piggery at Bathurst Road, and opposite the railway lines bordering the water catchment, he saw in his headlights what he was certain was a Thylacine, as it ran from the railway lines across the highway in front of his car, heading in the direction of the Megalong Valley. 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. Roger Hardy also informed me that in the Mount Mondilla area are deep gorges. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". Years later I mentioned it to locals in Wee Waa when I worked there as a doctor. It was completely unconcerned by the presence of his car and he closely examined it for 5 minutes before it walked off. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. But why the hell would a baby thylacine, which I am absolutely confident that this animal is, be following a pademelon and be being followed by a pademelon?, he asks viewers. 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. Groves managed to pull out his mobile phone and snap a picture of the creature which he then uploaded to social media. 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. ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. The animal stood about 61cm off the. Later, back in Canberra, I came across an illustration of the Tasmanian Tiger, and immediately recognised it as the animal I had observed on my trip. 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. Im not sure if this is a characteristic of the Thylacine. Daily Telegraph (Australia), 19 November, p. 3. A short time after she saw the animal, while talking to her neighbours, she was surprised to find that three of them had also observed an animal of a similar description. A massive animal crossed the road in front of me. 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. I showed him a photo on-line, and he said "That's it. (2013). Im totally convinced I witnessed a Tassie tiger on the coast road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park NSW. A fuller account of his sighting can be found on his website: "On Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15 pm, a female companion and I were driving along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath toward Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Both animals disappeared within seconds into the rainforest.". It was dog-sized but not thin like a greyhound. It was around the year 1948. She even came in with the drawing hed done after seeing the creature. He never saw the animal again even though he drove those same roads for another 2 years. It was on the outskirts of the Arakwal National Park, the western edge, inland of the creek. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extendedhalf way down the side of the body. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. 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 . It came from the left hand side up the slope, crossed the road & then leapt up the bank. These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. '", "While these are recorded, there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists.". The animal, he said, was a good 6ft [1.83m] length from nose to tip of tail, and stood about 2ft off the ground on all fours. Plaster casts were made and later matched with others found in Tasmania in 1974 whose peculiar paw structure identified them as thylacine. Source:Hunt, Elle. 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.". Without hesitation, he put down his soup spoon, seized his gun from the wall, pushed a couple of cartridges into . (1811). ", "2003, Upper Main Arm; bush regenerator Mark had a close observation of a thylacine-like animal at midday and observed its striped back and stiff tail as it stood near the roadside. Here it is. The fur colour was light brown and there were dark stripes on the body that began at the neck base and extended to the tail rump. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. At worst, it couldnt have been any more than 10 meters from me as it went tearing past, so I got a great view of it front on and in profile, and I tell you, it was one of the oddest creatures Ive ever seen! On 13 May 1930, in the Mawbanna district of north-eastern Tasmania, farmer Wilf Batty was eating his lunch when he heard a loud squawking coming from the direction of his chicken coop. Copyright 2023 The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. We came to the Pilliga. I have no doubt about what I saw. Rex Gilroy believes so. He worked for 5 years with Standard Saw Mills of Lismore as a logger and often saw dingos. The large head had a short snout and three premolars on both jaws. I was excited to hear that there have been several reported sightings of Tasmanian tigers in the recent years. March 2, 2021 - 2:00PM The highly anticipated photos of a 'living' Tasmania tiger family have been released and the man who captured them says he's "absolutely confident" at least one is a thylacine. The animal then bounded off up an embankment out of sight. 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. Its tail was long and straight, resembling that of a kangaroo or wallaby. Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? The tracks were situated beneath a small embankment close to the waters edge. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Tony & Suzette saw what looked like a thylacine. Known officially to science as a thylacine, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs . I was on my way to work at the time, heading for Glenbrook Railway Station and had no time to pursue it, when it ran off holding its prey in its mouth. route. 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. My daughter became frightened, as she said she thought it was a feral dog, and yet it did not look like any dog she had ever seen. There were nine of us in all, and about to sleep when, to our utter astonishment, a creature boldly emerged from bushes and walked up to our campfire remains. A huge population of mutant tiger snakes has inhabited a small island off the coast of Tasmania to the point where tales of fleeing tourists are routinely regaled like . It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. However, I had never observed a wallaby engaged in such an unusual activity, stretched out along the ground instead of the normal upright posture or bent down feeding on vegetation. He was certain that it was not a cat, fox or dog. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. Trailing a Tiger. Source: Anonymous. The trap was baited with meat, and Mr Pereira began a vigil. Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. They both wouldnt have believed what they had seen unless the other had confirmed it. Had it been left by a thylacine? 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