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. 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.". ", "One lady in particular swears she saw one near a supermarket in Brighton Le Sands N.S.W. The tracks were situated beneath a small embankment close to the waters edge. It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. The bands were about 2 cm wide & about 6 cm apart. It had stripes that were not bold. We were driving along the road when a animal stepped out in front of use further down the highway. near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. More from Local News A short time later a bakery representative from the Gold Coast also saw the animal & commented to Sue about it. Therefore the tiger seen by Robyn Simon and Rebecca Jackson could only be a visitor to theKatoomba area, until it settles into a new habitat, perhaps with its mate if one is nearby, out on theNeck or back in Megalong Valley. 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.". He describes the animal as "as long as a Labrador with a thin tail pointing backwards". In June 2018, a Sydney man shared home surveillance footage of a creature he believed to be a Tasmanian tiger. Now plans are underfoot to bring back this thylacine and reintroduce it to Tassie. There is no doubt in our minds that the creatures we saw were Tasmanian Tigers, said Sam.". Its snout was narrow and pointed, the eyes appeared sloping backwards, the ears were tall and rounded and it had a long neck. It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. [Available from Lulu]. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops | Newcastle Herald | Newcastle, NSW New Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops By Damon Cronshaw Updated March 8 2017 - 3:06pm, first published March 7 2017 - 5:07pm View + 20 Photos Christian Kropp knows what he saw. RELATED: 40 Funniest Wildlife Photos Ever. Farmer opens up Tassie tiger mystery. Being an expert on wildlife identification he was positive that it was a thylacine. They weighed up to 66 pounds. It was definitely not a dog. Of course, this is primarily due to humans taking over the world. They both wouldnt have believed what they had seen unless the other had confirmed it. A group of residents conducted an armed search of Myrtle Creek but found nothing. Rex Gilroy believes so. However, in 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger died, and the Thylacine was considered extinct. She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. These were able to hold their own in a fight with a dog and would attack if put under pressure. Sometimes you just need to know when to let the squirrel win the day. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. ", "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. It gave a strange coughing bark-like call and bounded away. It had a long thin straight tail, short sandy brown fur, a greyhound look to it and an odd gait. As we were driving towards Rosebank, I saw an animal about the size of a whippet dash across a grassy slope. 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. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. The man who teased the world with the release of photos of a Tasmanian tiger family has revealed them today. It was the vocalization that really threw me. He described it as having a head and body about 1 m long with a longish pointed tail about 60cm long. [a pack of thylacine-like animals seen on the Vic/NSW border in 1977]. In search of mountain tigers. He vividly recalled his dads words: You dont see this every day, son. He recalled his father and other old hands from the Pokolbin area, saying there were two different types of native cat the spotted quoll and the rare striped tiger quoll. The family set steel traps to catch rabbits/hares that were pests in the area. However, there have been many unconfirmed encounters with Tasmanian tigers since Benjamins death in 1936. '", "While these are recorded, there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists.". It was greyhound in size, covered in a dirty golden-brown short fur with no distinct stripes and a long tail that sloped down to the ground and back up again. Australasian Post, 31 January. ", "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. 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. 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. The sighting occurred on the NSW/Vic border, and so is listed twice in the respective state databases. 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. 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.". It looked straight at me before moving away. Then a car passed it and the animal ran off into the bush from where it had emerged.". This meant it strongly resembled a dog or a wolf, however, unlike canines the legs were proportionally short and the tail was stiff. It looked used to civilisation she said. The animal quickly vanished off the road into the corner of the Katoomba Water Catchment property, a dense bushland-covered region that follows the highway to the outskirts of Katoomba. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. On a bike ride to the beach they had a good look at what both thought may have been a Tasmanian tiger as ridiculous as that sounds, stated Andrew. This included comprehensive surveys along the west coast of Tasmania, investigations of sightings, installation of automatic camera stations, and the creation of an expeditionary research team. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. He reported I can say that what I saw did not look like anything I have witnessed before. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. My friend who was with me describes it as follows, it looked like a kangaroo but it walked rather than hopped. There were body stripesextending barrel-wise from the mid-back to the tail rump. It was not a dog sound she madenothing like it. 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. Century-old footage of the last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity has been brought to life by colourisation, offering a tantalising glimpse of the now-extinct creature. ", I was past Howes Valley near Howes Mountain, on a stretch of winding road. 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. 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. He said it was walking beside the cane field, and then turned and went into the cane. 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. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. In 1957, a specimen was reportedly spotted from a helicopter. A report from north of Waratah in January 2017 also describes a large cat-like animal "half trot, half run" across the road. It was not a dog. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 11(3): 13-30. 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. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. 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. 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. Its eyes were pale green reflecting in our weak head torches. The front paw was lifted up near the snout. The salted skin of a freshly shot tiger cat was pegged on the dunny door, Max said. "2008, Upper Wilsons Creek; Tracey emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe her sighting. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. 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". ", Source: Gilroy, Rex. Since then, no conclusive evidence has emerged to suggest that Tasmanian tigers still exist in the wild, and the species was declared officially extinct in 1986, the Tasmanian Government's. "Rex claimed he saw a thylacine on Tuesday, February 22, 1972 at 10.15pm on the Great Western Highway, south of Blackheath. ", "2005, Tregeagle; Rhys observed a golden-fawn thylacine-like animal. It measured 14.3 cm in length by 3c m width.". Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particularroute. 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. 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. Wildlife Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told they're nuts' The Thylacine Awareness Group is 'dedicated to the research, recognition and conservation of our. "'There is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable. 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. Two adults and a juvenile. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". At the time, none of my friends believed me and so I took it no further, she said. "On the 25th January 1982, about 10pm, Mr Darryl Morris and his wife Carrol were driving to Mount Riverview. Its ears were not as big as a roo or a fox. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. I found fresh faeces that may be its (it was not obviously male) and have frozen a sample. Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. It looked used to civilisation she said. Biologist and wildlife expert Nick Mooney has for years reviewed thylacine accounts and apparent footage and images. The search was successful in that we found fresh paw prints in mud at a remote swampland location. That same year, a government plant biologist saw what they believed to be a Tasmanian tiger ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), or thylacine, from 30 meters (100 feet) away in a remote area. It was not a Facebook group, and I don't remember what the organisation was called. * Im not sure I saw stripes across its back, but its colouring across the top of its rear 1/4 was darker than the rest. The color of this animal was light in appearance & there were no stripes. The final thylacine was captured in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. 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. In an attempt to curb their population, bounty schemes began to be established, with both private companies and the Tasmanian government offering money in exchange for dead Thylacines by 1830. 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. 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. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. ", "During April 1983 such an animal was reported making raids on a Kanimbla Valley farm.". ", "The Wollangambe Wilderness is a truly wild and remote region, situated north of the Grose Valley and north of the Bell-Bilpin Road. Also, on some evenings we hear an unusual sound from the same general area (our farm borders xxxx Rd). Known officially to science as a thylacine, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs . The next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. Denis Millar, 49, of North Tumbulgum near the NSW-Queensland border, said yesterday he saw the mysterious animal on a neighbour's property. 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. Then I screamed you know let it go and then it just ran off. The hocks were pronounced and lowit rocked back on them when it loped away. It was the size of a small dingo but with an elongated, slim body and the hind quarters was more prominent. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. Feral predator-free areas are being established to save a range of endangered marsupials. It stopped looked at us approaching then ran off in to the bushes. It was dog-like and about the size of a full-grown Alsatian, with fawn coloured body fur and a row of blackish body stripes extending barrel-wise from mid-back to tail-rump. By Cameron Baud and Bryce Luff / VIC News. The last Thylacine The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. 01 of 10 The striped-bodied animal was too large to have been anything else. The animal had escaped into scrubland that extends eastward to a gully, which drops down into the Grose Valley, where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported seen by campers and bushwalkers to the present day.". She said she saw a mutant dog. The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. He stated it had a tail like a roo, but not touching the ground. These were mostly reported by motorists.". The animal had apparently appeared from out of nearby bush to stand under the street light. Rex Gilroy, during an expedition north of the Grose Valley: "We returned to the swamp last February, and found more evidence. It stopped and looked in my direction then it continued off into the bush. Far longer than any dogs tail & kinda looked like a kangaroo's tail. "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. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. It looked, then lopped off into the cliff side of the road. 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. ", "Early 2008 late 2007, Repentance Creek Rd at the Minyon Falls turnoff. Generally, although dog-like, it was not Canid, because of the structure of the hind part of the body. The length of the animal was something like 5ft from nose to tail tip. Dad always said it was [a Tasmanian tiger]., They believed there could be no doubt.". Tasmanian tigers grew to between 39 and 51 inches, with a 20-inch tail. 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. Reading your article (Walkabout, June) on the thylacine recalled a sighting made while driving with two companions on the unfrequented road between Adelong and Tumbarumba, N.S.W. It was shaped like a kangaroos tail, but held straight out behind instead of dragging on the ground. Source:Anonymous. Rather excited about the whole thing I tried officially reporting it to the ranger, who showed absolutely no interest in the matter, as you might expect. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. Two Tasmanian tigers in captivity at the Hobart Zoo. Its body was greyish-brown and when it got up we observed that it's hindquarters appeared "tucked in" and were marked with dark stripes. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable, it was an undoubted Thylacine. Given that we were on a survey I was even able to give the guy the exact co-ordinates where the creature had been sighted, thinking this at least might inspire him to go out and take a look, but nothing ever happened. He and his friend were quite close to the base of the mountain when they passed an odd looking animal. After shaking our heads in disbelief, we were the ones who left, having finished our fishing and as we left we were able to see it walking around in the distance.", "Also around this time, Russel and Michael were walking within the Brunswick Valley Nature Reserve near the flying fox colony and both independently observed thylacine-like animals, one slinking past in front of them & one apparently following them. I was sitting there going "what was it?". ", "During September 1983, I organised a major search for evidence of living Thylacines in the Wollongambie Wilderness, east of Lithgow. ", Source:Anonymous. Busy mum, blogger and musician, trying to thrive in Scandinavia. ", "16th November, 1997, Sunday, 7-30 a.m. at Lennox Head; between Seven Mile Beach and Lake Ainsworth, near Camp Drew, Paul and his partner observed from their car, only 1 metre away, a dog-sized animal with black stripes down its back and rump with one stripe across the base of the tail. It was not a wild dog nor kangaroo". We also found two unusual sets of tracks. He passed it and stopped the car but it had disappeared into the bush by the time he looked back. 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. Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. It appeared to bound away using its front and hind legs in unison reminding me of a wild boar in full flight but with much smoother and longer strides. (2017). It was not a dog; it was larger than most dogs and had a barrel-shaped body and brown fur. The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. It occured roughly 30km from the first, some twenty years earlier. 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.". 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. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. 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. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. The wild population of the large carnivorous . Another report given to Samantha came from a woman called Gail who worked at Durrumbul preschool and who had seen one crawl from beneath the preschool building and walk in a hopping way. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. 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? 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. . I walked to the spot were the animal had been and found a small dead wombat "gutted", a very strange sight for the plains. A Victoria farmer, Peter Groves, made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. So from that experience I do believe they are still knocking around.". 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. ", "In March 1973 an animal answering to the description of the Thylacine was claimed by a Mrs Cummins to have raided her fowl yard at Wentworth Falls. The film was recently colorized by Composite Films in Paris. Various reported sightings may be the key to finding the thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger, formally known as Thylacinus cynocephalus or, the thylacine. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is one of Australia's most iconic species. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particular. 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. It looked just like that". The eyes were very keen, watching in a way domestic dogs do not. 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." 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. 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. One of the most sought after mystery creatures of modern times is the Tasmanian Tiger, a creature which once roamed the wilds of Australia and the island of Tasmania. Tasmanian tigers were 39 to 51 inches (100 to 130 centimeters) long, and the tail added 20 to 26 inches (50 to 65 cm) to its length. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. F***ing joke: Neighbours stunning note, Firefighters stunned by treetop discovery, proof the extinct animals were still alive, Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger. Its fur was very short, about 15 mm long, of a greyish to light brown colour and was not at all mangy. 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