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. The bands were about 2 cm wide & about 6 cm apart. It had a long, cat-like tail and features reminiscent of a fox or wolf. Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. 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. [reprint of an article in a previous edition (2016) of the same newsletter]. Copyright 2023 The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. later, one of the men spotted a striped dog-like animal standing near the camp in the dim glow of the dying campfire. ", "February 2006, Brunswick Heads; Pacific Highway near the Mullumbimby turnoff, Walter saw a dead thylacine-like animal, with a distinctive long straight tail and stripes along the body, lying on the roadside, a victim of a car strike. 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. 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 animals watched the approaching car for a few seconds and then raced off into the bush. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. 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. Trailing a Tiger. Product Information. In the series of images, the one photo Mr Waters is confident is a tiger joey, experts believe is probably a Tasmanian pademelon joey. 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. Busy mum, blogger and musician, trying to thrive in Scandinavia. This poor pooch learnt that lesson the hard way in a hilarious mishap. ", "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 front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. And I identify animals all the time, and so I'm used to looking at something and trying tuh, and working out what it is I'm seeing. A short time later a bakery representative from the Gold Coast also saw the animal & commented to Sue about it.". Also, on some evenings we hear an unusual sound from the same general area (our farm borders xxxx Rd). We could not see stripes. Had it been left by a thylacine? The animal seen on video is about a metre in length and about 50cm tall, which would be. Feral predator-free areas are being established to save a range of endangered marsupials. Im certain this animal was a Thylacine! Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itselfsomewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush-choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drivewithin view of Narrow Neck Plateau? Plaster casts were made and later matched with others found in Tasmania in 1974 whose peculiar paw structure identified them as thylacine. They weighed 33 to 66 lbs. 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. Groves managed to pull out his mobile phone and snap a picture of the creature which he then uploaded to social media. I saw it for about 5 seconds as it crossed a remote dirt road. In the nearby dense scrub, we came across signs of a scuffle between a wild pig and a Thylacine, as indicated by the dozens of tracks embedded in the soil over a wide area. They never did see any sign of it again. 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. The owner remarked that they would have to kill the animal as he would not allow a monster to live on the farm. It stopped for a second as I approached, looked towards me, then quickly left the road into scrub. But this is no small feat. 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. Im dead-set sure the damn thing was not a fox, dingo or dog and Im positive about the zebra-like stripes down the back. (year?). 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. 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.". So from that experience I do believe they are still knocking around.". They said that about five weeks before, on 27th November 1979, while photographing birds at Mount Mondilla, they found paw prints in mud that appeared to match those of the Thylacine. "Good description given, bounded into bush," the report states. (1977). The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. "A STRANGE animal resembling a Tasmanian tiger has a NSW farmer scratching his head. I thought it was a cat at first but as I approached, it didnt scurry as a cat would. Then they all descended back through the bananas to head for home. About the edge of the swamp I found another set of "tiger" tracks. *Its colouring was a deep outback red. ", "During April 1983 such an animal was reported making raids on a Kanimbla Valley farm.". 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. On Sept. 7, 1936, the animal known as . The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. The Tasmanian tiger or 'thylacine' The thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. ", "A week later, on Sunday 10th April we returned to Mr Turners property after he phoned us, to say that what might have been the same animal had returned the night before, leaving chew and scratch marks on his fowl house door, and more tracks around the area of the dam. 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. Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 27 March, p. 46. " A Tasmanian tiger enthusiast has claimed to have captured photographic evidence of the extinct animal and possible "proof" of breeding. The tail went downward toward the ground, said John. Are we on the cusp of finally confirming that the thylacine a.k.a. "In February 1977, in the Kanimbla Valley north of Megalong, Mr Kevin Cummings was driving out of the valley one day when, as his vehicle passed a tall embankment, he saw ahead of him, what he immediately recognised to be a Thylacine, run across the dirt road he was on and up the embankment. Another search of the farm and its surrounds failed to turn up anything new, and the creature did not return.". These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. I've never seen nothing like it again. Five vets all agree it looks like a four-legged animal and not a macropod that hops, Mr Waters says. By this time our car was but a few feet from the animal which just stood there staring at our vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights' glare. We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. 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. Three years later the last of its kind in captivity, named Benjamin, died a lonesome death in the Hobart Zoo. It had a long thin pointed tail, which pointed down, almost the length of the body. "26th January 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; at around 6 a.m. (Australia Day) Russel was driving from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads. Is the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus) extinct on the Australian mainland? The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. 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. On hearing from Mr Heath of some of the Thylacine sightings he had been told about, an academic at a Queensland . ", "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. ["Two animals of the hyena kind"]. A group of residents conducted an armed search of Myrtle Creek but found nothing. 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. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. The last close sighting was about 6 months ago and it was right by our car on our forest drive. Just as we drove up the one way road a creature darted across the road. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, whichwas stiff with no point. 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. It was early morning around 5.30 to 6.00 a.m. when she heard a commotion outside the house as if a dog was fighting with our cats. It was neither dog, nor dingo, nor wolf, and certainly not a fox. I could see it entering a stand of gums across a paddock about 200ft away, so gave chase. Its prehistoric presence there first came to light in 1960 when archeologists discovered the lower jaw of a Tasmanian tiger. June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend, Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba. ", "February 2006, Tyalgum; Donna lives at Tyalgum and saw an unusual animal that ran through their paddock on dusk at great speed. The document includes detailed accounts of alleged close encounters with the mysterious predator across the northern and western regions of the state. At the base of the tail there was an orange ring about 50 mm wide and it was followed by 6 to 8 yellow rings about 40 mm wide. It had short fur, very stiff, thick at the base (a long broom handle) and it didnt act like a dogs tail. Suddenly I caught sight of a large dog-like animal in the headlights just as I was turning a corner. ", "The Winter of 2022 will be remembered by Heather and I for the number of Blue Mountains bushland sightings of of Thylacines at least a dozen. Clive said that there were no foxes up there in the Whian Whian Range. *It had strong powerful hind legs*smaller front legs*A long stiff tail that pointed straight out. 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. The time was approximately 6.15 - 6.30 am and the sun had been up for about 30 minutes. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable, it was an undoubted Thylacine. As such it generally moved at a slow pace. It was thin and brownish and had a long thin tail. It scratched itself with its hind leg like a dog. It was a bit after dusk. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. As our vehicle came closer they left their prey to dash into roadside scrub. "Thylacine sighting: 21/01/21 At approximately 6.00am SA time 2 days ago, a man leaving his home for work froze in awe at what he was seeing in the front part of his property in the Adelaide Hills when he saw . The picture of a thylacine on the Tasmanian Cascade Beer label would be the closest animal to what we saw. All Rights Reserved. It was grey/brown with a lighter underside, especially under the chin. ", "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. This time it was coming down the slope from the right, jumped down the bank onto the road & continued down the slope as if it regularly used the same animal track. The snout was not longer than a greyhound and was more Alsatian-like. log in. 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. (2017). 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. Againno familiar dog body language. 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 really quick; one second it was there in front of me, next second it was way in the distance. "Mr Gordon Pereira [mentioned earlier] was puzzled as to what he could do about the mysterious dog-like animal that had been making repeated attacks on his chickens at his Wentworth Falls property during June 1972. . 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. . He stated it had a tail like a roo, but not touching the ground. 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. 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. The animals face was like a dingo/dog/wolf but with rounder ears. It didnt taper, or wag. Published January 11, 2023. He expected to catch up with the animal with ease because of its disability but was surprised that when it became aware of his cars approach, it raced off along the roadside with incredible speed. 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 father and a neighbour got a hassion bag and threw it over the animal. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. The carnivorous Thylacine ate rodents, birds, kangaroos and other marsupials. The animal vanished off the highway into the darkness in seconds into roadside scrub. Quite suddenly the animal reared on it's hind legs, nose to the air, turned to the opposite direction than that it had been standing and raced into the vegetation at speed. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. 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