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. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. [The Thylacine was surely a male, females beingmore thickset - RG]. ", "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. Its buttocks were tapered toward the tail. It measured 14.3 cm in length by 3c m width.". Neil Waters released a video last week teasing fans about the photos which he claimed were proof the extinct animals were still alive. It was dog-like and about the size of a full-grown Alsatian, with fawn-coloured short body hair and a row of blackish body stripes extending barrel-wise from mid-back to tail rump. It was covered with a fine short brown fur except for the rump and tail, which was bare skinned with individual hairs scattered evenly across it. ", "On Thursday afternoon 28th January 2015, on a Blackheath fire trail, above a gully Rex Gilroy found a number of Thylacine paw prints in a sandy patch. So we see lots of normal Australian little animals. As we approached the turnoff to Evans Lookout, and on the corner of the local city council water catchment fence [left side of road going south] which encloses a vast area of scrubland, we saw in the glare of the cars headlights a strange animal. Two adults and a juvenile. Just outside the town was a small separate community called Brown Town by the locals. I was sitting there going "what was it?". The most recent time, probably about 12 or 18 months ago, my husband was on his own and saw it quite clearly, only a few metres away. I looked for prints. The last Thylacine The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. Eight alleged sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wilderness have been reported to the state government over the past three years. One particualr day they came upon a trap with a stange looking animal in it. I had a magnificent view of it head on face to face sitting in the middle of the road not much more than 15 feet away. It was neither dog, nor dingo, nor wolf, and certainly not a fox. The length of the animal was something like 5ft from nose to tail tip. This incident followed bad bushfires in the lower Blue Mountains-Grose Valley. 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. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is one of Australia's most iconic species. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. He described it as "clear as a day". I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. 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. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. He said it looked exactly like the Tasmanian tigers he had seen pictures of in books except that it was a lot darker in colouring. She and a work mate looked at each other in total disbelief & both said together What in gods name was that? Hunting, the introduction of dogs and the loss of habitat were to blame for its demise. (1982). I have rung and reported this to my local veterinarian.". ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. later, one of the men spotted a striped dog-like animal standing near the camp in the dim glow of the dying campfire. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. Dad always said it was [a Tasmanian tiger]., They believed there could be no doubt.". 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. It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. Here it is. The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. I did find a not too well-preserved long heel embedded in moist soil. 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. Our sighting lasted only seconds before the animal vanished into roadside bushes, said Darryl.". "On the night of Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, I was with a woman friend, being driven along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath to my home at Katoomba. User "SoulNavigator" reported in the comment section about a sighting they and a relative had while driving: "20 years ago myself , my brother and his wife drove from Brisbane to melbourne via inland route. It looked like a cross between a dog and a kangaroo. I showed him a photo on-line, and he said "That's it. It was not afraid of me but backed away whenever I approached closer than 2-3 m. The tail was the least dog-like feature. 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. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. He says the animal also has short feet like a Tasmanian tiger and shiny hocks, with evidence of striping on the tail. It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. Footage of the last Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Australia, from 1933. It tried to get through the armour rail on the highway, but couldnt, so it ran parallel with it for five yards, then it went through the rail at a higher opening. She saw it for quite a while. ", "2003, Wilfred Street, Billinudgel; Sue, owner of the Billinudgel Post Office and the general store, looked into the main street of Billinudgel one morning at 5.30 am and was surprised to see a very unusual animal standing in the middle of the road. 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!! newspaper articles, books, CD's etc.). , who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. Between 2016 to 2019, the report notes seven sightings of the Tasmanian tiger. Then they all descended back through the bananas to head for home. 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 tail was thickly furred which reminded him of a photo of a numbat. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itself, somewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush, choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drive, It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from Megalong. 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]. All I thought at the time was, what is this? . She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". 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. It was shaped like a kangaroos tail, but held straight out behind instead of dragging on the ground. 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?. Most data was collected from old material. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. Im totally convinced I witnessed a Tassie tiger on the coast road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park NSW. His wife was the first of the family to observe the animal, 3 months before while taking their child to the bus stop down their one kilometre long driveway. It had a long, cat-like tail and features reminiscent of a fox or wolf. The animal was in the headlights of my car eating road kill in the middle of a road and then bolted into thick scrub. According to CNN, an official document . Although. Denis Millar, 49, of North Tumbulgum near the NSW-Queensland border, said yesterday he saw the mysterious animal on a neighbour's property. He thought it couldn't be true, Christian said of his dad, who he described as your typical Australian bushy. It really caught my attention, and I found myself thinking about this animal for days.", "25thFebruary 2006, Saturday night, Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby; Richard sighted a thylacine-like animal on the road as he drove from Main Arm to Mullumbimby and he pulled off the road to look where the creature went. The front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. 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. The front paw was lifted up near the snout. From the back cover: "..Tiger tales is full of great yarns and larger-than-life, country-hewn Aussie characters ..(the book) showcases 'tiger hunter' Col Bailey's favourite Tassie tiger stories, gleaned from his own research and experiences, from mysterious sightings, and from interviews with old fur-trappers . They never did see any sign of it again. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. Join 1.7 Million Subscribers Lopping once again and this time I was closer and still it made no sudden movement like it wasnt scared of my car. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. As they passed through Medlow Bath, and just past the Foy Avenue turnoff, which is a busy area, about 6.1 metres ahead of his vehicle, illuminated by the headlights and standing on the left of the highway near street lights, they all spotted a dog-like animal of Alsatian size. So from that experience I do believe they are still knocking around.". "I met a bloke yesterday who said he had seen one in the Hunter Valley in NSW. Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. The animal seen on video is about a metre in length and about 50cm tall, which would be. No sex identifiers noticed. Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. Roger Hardy also informed me that in the Mount Mondilla area are deep gorges. . It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. Whatever it was it most certainly was neither a dog nor a dingo. The video was posted on YouTube, and shared in the Sydney subreddit on social media site Reddit. 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. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. It had stripes that were not bold. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. (2017). 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. He never saw the animal again even though he drove those same roads for another 2 years. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, which, was stiff with no point. We were within yards of it when it moved off the road into the scrub with a loping cat-like run. Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. 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? These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. He realised that only one species could answer the dog-like physical appearance of this strange animal, and that was a Tasmanian Tiger. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. It was about 18 kg, fawn coloured short dense fur. ", "2005, South Golden Beach, Kolora Way; Lyndel observed a thylacine-like animal without stripes.". Apart from its size, it was greyhound-like in appearance with narrowing flanks, its body sloping downward to a long, thin tail which followed the slope of the back and seemed kangaroo-like in that it did not appear to wag. I was going through that process and I, and it, it didn't work. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable. 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". Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp". The picture of a thylacine on the Tasmanian Cascade Beer label would be the closest animal to what we saw. (year?). The carnivorous Thylacine ate rodents, birds, kangaroos and other marsupials. "A STRANGE animal resembling a Tasmanian tiger has a NSW farmer scratching his head. The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. All of these sightings occurred in a small valley we were crossing during this period of the survey, and on this final occassion I happened to be some distance from the others in the party, setting up some wires, when the others accidentally spooked the creature from a spot nearby where it had apparently been hiding not realizing where I was it came tearing straight at me through the salt bush and blue bush and only veered away at the last minute when it sighted me. '", "While these are recorded, there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists.". These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. 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. It was at the edge of the bush at the top of a small gully. route. Source:https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm. No stripes but a hint of black on legs and ears, white muzzle, like you might see on an elderly dog, black nose. Kim Falconer wrote I heard a loud sound like a cross between a guttural possum noise and a large dog retching. 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. He observed it again at 5 pm on the Friday afternoon of the same week whilst driving back from work at exactly the same place. Awareness for the status of the Tasmanian tiger was so low that after Benjamin died, Hobart Zoo expected they would soon receive a replacement, and the death of the last Tasmanian tiger wasnt even reported in the media. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. The color of this animal was light in appearance & there were no stripes. ", Source:http://www.windellama.com.au/wild/Wild_Windellama_May_2005.html. "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. Source: Lubbock, Adelaide. Other residents in the area, however, did not share this explanation. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub and situated at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. ", "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. The fur was short, with a sandy beige colour. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. Then Donna saw that its head was too large, it was too bulky in the forequarters, and the body tapered off in the hind quarters, the exact opposite of the body of a wallaby. They ranged in size from 100-130cm in length and 50-65cm in height, and. 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. He described it as having a head and body about 1 m long with a longish pointed tail about 60cm long. Suddenly I caught sight of a large dog-like animal in the headlights just as I was turning a corner. The animal was so close that he almost hit it as it reached the other side of his vehicle. The size of a dog, it had a big distinctive head, brown fur and a stiff kangaroo-like tail. (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. I searched the locality but found no sign of a body. "'There is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. 01 of 10 My attention was caught by the movement of something about 60 meters away that at first glance I thought was a medium sized feral dog standing head down in short grass roughly 15 meters from the eucalypt scrub that borders the paddock like plains of the area. The tiger tracks were found in a hanging swamp area which was part of a rain forest on the south side of the mountain. 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 . (2021). She seemed extremely curious-cautious. "Mr John Stalling was a 28 years old bushman in June 1982, when he gave me three experiences he had with Thylacines in the Glenbrook area. Then I screamed you know let it go and then it just ran off. 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