Then it just loped off the road into the yard, Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. Over the years we have kept the location of the swamp and gully a closely guarded secret, to give these marsupials an opportunity to increase their numbers, and keep away unwanted human interference. 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.". The final time a Tasmanian Tiger sighting was recorded in the wild was in 1933. It was 60 to 70 cm high and covered with short ginger-blond short hair with a narrow, small triangular-shaped head, a long thin neck, a long straight, thin tail that was as long as the animal. In 1961, a creature killed at Sandy Cape in Queensland was identified tentatively as a Tasmanian tiger. He worked for 5 years with Standard Saw Mills of Lismore as a logger and often saw dingos. Then, the next morning, 9/3/08 at approximately 6.40 a.m., as I was travelling to Murwillumbah on the Terranora road, about 1.5 km from the Bilambil turn off were the road begins to decline, I saw it again. "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. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, whichwas stiff with no point. It had a large head with golden eyes and widely separated rounded ears. 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. Sly is Ty's brother (and former enemy) and a recurring character in the series. ", Source:https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, Please consider purchasing or sharing my new Kindle eBook on the current biodiversity crisis, to help raise funds for this website: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09P8PQ8N2/, A free Kindle eReader app can be downloaded for PC and Mac users: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. It didnt run. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. 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 . ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. I was thinking how cool it was that I'd saved a little pademelon from being eaten by something. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Thylacine, has been presumed extinct since 1936 . ", "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. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,. They might not be extinct after all | by Iselin Aspen | Creatures | Medium Write Sign up Sign In 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. The elderly chaps sighting was about ten years ago in the same area, closer to dawn, about 6am.". 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. Thylacine winter. He described it to us as a short greyish-furred animal, with narrow flanks and a drooping, long thin tail. My brother was asleep in the back. However, I did not receive any response. Its physical appearance matched that of stuffed specimens preserved in government museums. Pam noticed what looked like pale stripes across the back. of a creature he believed to be a Tasmanian tiger. All times AEDT (GMT +11). The snout was not longer than a greyhound and was more Alsatian-like. 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. Various reported sightings may be the key to finding the thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger, formally known as Thylacinus cynocephalus or, the thylacine. It was not striped but had 2 large bands or darker colour on its shoulders and hind section. It had stripes and blue eyes, and I now realise when I look back that it was a thylacine I reckon. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 11(3): 13-30. Since Benjamin died on September 7, 1936, there has been no official sighting of a Tasmanian tiger. But, he adds, "society will not protect an animal it thinks is extinct. Reports from other states and countries can be accessedhere. In November 1993, during a holiday in northern Queensland, the author met a man who witnessed a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) on Cape York Peninsular. ", "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. 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. Gary is a one of the great people in this area knowing wildlife and ummm and so I was talking to him about it. Trailing a Tiger. Id love to know., READ MORE: Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger. "West of the Kanimbla-Megalong Valleys lies the Jenolan Road, where motorists and locals have been seeing tigers for generations. What I am certain is it wasn't is a Dog, Cat, Fox, Kangaroo. These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. It looked just like that". 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. READ MORE: Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger There have been hundreds of sightings according to the Thylacine Awareness Group which has this image on their website. Againno familiar dog body language. As we approached the left-hand turnoff to Evans Lookout, at the corner of the local council water catchment fence which encloses a vast area of dense scrubland, we saw in the glare of the car's headlights a strange animal. It had a long thin tail about the length of its body. (1968). Is the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus) extinct on the Australian mainland? She even came in with the drawing hed done after seeing the creature. 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. (2017). Uru Publications. 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. Other residents in the area, however, did not share this explanation. Two weeks later Dennis finally saw it sitting on the roadside while driving down their road to pick up their child from the bus stop at 4 pm. This incident followed bad bushfires in the lower Blue Mountains-Grose Valley. 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. Western Australian Naturalist 10(7): 171-172. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. This is the only report of a mother and its young.". ", "15th February 2006, Hastings Point; Rose described a strange dog-like animal that she saw while driving to work in the morning. It then took off but didn't bounce like a kangaroo. "In September, 1983, I led a search into this region [i.e. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. Story. It walked, going from tree to tree, looking up into the trees. "At 10.15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 1972, a friend and I were driving along thee Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath towards Katoomba in the NSW Blue Mountains. She seemed extremely curious-cautious. The database currently contains 11,166 species and subspecies (as of January 2023). It had a sharp face, full ears, a hard erect rather round body, high in the shoulders, tall lean thin legs, long thin hard looking tail and the faintest glimpse of darker stripes around the body.". Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? 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. A group of residents conducted an armed search of Myrtle Creek but found nothing. The animal stood about 61cm off theground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. This animal's head was dog-like, but its ears were shaped somewhat like a cat's. Of course, this is primarily due to humans taking over the world. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. All Rights Reserved. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. Its body fur was a greyish-brown colour and the body stripes, a blackish-brown colour, when first observed, ran from the middle of the back onto the tail rump. 198-208], "1982, Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, Greys Lane, Tyagarah, Uki and Terania Creek; Rabbit observed 5 times at 5 different locations as above, a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump, always around 4 a.m. when driving before first light on his delivery rounds. Nearby residents Allan & Maureen also observed the animal. The farm owner yelled out Its a monster, we will have to kill it and picking up a stone, threw it at the strange animal. In addition to these relentless attempts to control their numbers, several other factors drove the Tasmanian tiger to its eventual extinction. 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. In November 2017, three investigators including Adrian Richardson, who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. Later, above the gully, during a detailed search for more evidence we came across tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, beside which were the smaller tracks of a young cub. 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. "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. It didnt taper, or wag. I decided that this was not a wallaby but, from its distinctive body shape, a carnivorous marsupial. In 1938, a Thylacine was said to be shot at Mawbanna. Numbats are closely related to the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. 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. (Image credit: National Film and . A senior veterinarian and former RSPCA president is quoted in the video as saying there is a 70 to 80 per cent chance the animal is a thylacine. and again as it loped away in a carefree manner. . Leaping from his bed, Mr Pereira went torch in hand to investigate his trap. ", "1999, Brunswick Heads; Jodi saw a striped animal cross the road between the fish co-op and the highway. Was dog like but had a different stance ie hind quarter high, it had a size between a fox and a dingo. A tassie tiger hunter said he has 'irrefutable proof Tasmanian tiger is not extinct He released three images, one of which he claims is solid proof they're alive The images show a small. which is not far from Sydney's International airport and along the shores of Botany Bay. ", "1995, Coopers Lane, Main Arm; Hayley observed a golden-fawn animal with a striped tail. 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. Christian Kopp (11 at the time) and his father saw a thylacine when collecting firewood. The wild population of the large carnivorous . 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. READ MORE: What can prove Tassie tigers are alive. Unexplained! I could see it entering a stand of gums across a paddock about 200ft away, so gave chase. He describes the animal as "as long as a Labrador with a thin tail pointing backwards". To this day I wish I had have got out to speak to the driver of the 'cruiser, but my head was just spinning! While it was also out during the day, it was mostly nocturnal and usually hunted at night, in pairs or alone. 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 body fur was a mousy-brown colour with greyish stripes extending barrel-wise along the body. It was a bit after dusk. There was no question about it, the animal I had seen was a Thylacine. 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. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. Victorian Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports Reports from other states and countries can be accessed here. She had a springy-rocking horse gait, moving quickly then holding very still, lifting her head. The Tasmanian Tiger was in fact a marsupial rather than a big cat, and its proper name is the thylacine. He immediately noticed that it had an unusual shuffling walk with the rear of the body sloping backwards & thought that it had a dislocated hip, which he had observed on an injured dog previously. June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend, Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba. Its head was not dog-like; it had a short muzzle with pointy ears, a proud stance and kangaroo-like hips. A Tasmanian tiger enthusiast has claimed to have captured photographic evidence of the extinct animal and possible "proof" of breeding. He described it as having a head and body about 1 m long with a longish pointed tail about 60cm long. 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. Rex Gilroy believes so. "Later, on another detailed search for evidence above the gully, we stumbled upon tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, alongside paw prints of a cub at least several hours old. Despite all official . Two adults and a juvenile. Anyone who has seen the earth around Broken Hill it was that colour. The tail was thick at the base and as long as the body, was round in cross section and went to a point. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. 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. CNN . She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. Its fur was a tan colour, and the body stripes were blacky-brown. 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. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. The last Thylacine The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. (2016). It was only about a metre or two in front of my car. RELATED: Five Incredible Day Trips From Hobart, Treat yourself to a subscription-Save up to 25%. Exploring animal welfare, animal care, and the human-animal bond. The time was approximately 6.15 - 6.30 am and the sun had been up for about 30 minutes. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. The body fur looked light grey or brownish in colour, with dark stripes situated about mid-way on the spine extending down towards the back legs, stopping about the rump. ", I take "on occasions" to represent at least three separate encounters (viz. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5-14. ", "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. One particualr day they came upon a trap with a stange looking animal in it. Questions do arise about this bizarre revelation. It's also. The video was posted on YouTube, and shared in the Sydney subreddit on social media site Reddit. Source: Anonymous. The dog and the people chased the animal into a large hollow log where it crouched to stare at them. It was not a Facebook group, and I don't remember what the organisation was called. (2017). Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. He stated it had a tail like a roo, but not touching the ground. The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine . "30th December 2008, 6:15 am, 5-37 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay, NSW. It measured 14.3 cm in length by 3c m width.". "It is almost extinct, but not quite. 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? "1970, Crabbes Creek; schoolteacher Mark was working on a banana farm during the school holidays and as they descended from a forested ridge top at the end of the day, the owners German Shepard dog began growling at something sheltering within an old, partly collapsed banana-packing shed overgrown with vines. It had sandy coloured fur, a stubby muzzle and a long tail. ", "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. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 27 March, p. 46. " By Cameron Baud and Bryce Luff / VIC News. No sex identifiers noticed. "In 1978, he was 7 or 8 at at the time and lived on a farm near Nundle NSW. ", "5th March 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. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". I have not seen one like this before. It looked like a female lion, but it had stripes on the flank and stripes on the tail. (1985). The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. Neil Waters released a video last week teasing fans about the photos which he claimed were proof the extinct animals were still alive. Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. So we see lots of normal Australian little animals. Mr George Skinner, a maintenance painter who was working at Jenolan Caves back in the early 1980s, once told this author that he was driving home from work around 5pm one evening in March 1982. 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". However, reports of thylacine sightings continue. In November 2017, three investigators including. Denis Millar, 49, of North Tumbulgum near the NSW-Queensland border, said yesterday he saw the mysterious animal on a neighbour's property. At one particular spot we came across paw prints unlike any of the others and certainly not those of any dog. The guy on duty looked at me as if I was some sort of crank who had just reported a Martian, but at least gave me a book to leaf through to see if I could recognize the species. From a newspaper article: "Ive seen plenty of dingoes in my life and Im educated quite well on animals and the bush, he said. It was shaped like a kangaroos tail, but held straight out behind instead of dragging on the ground. 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. I was excited to hear that there have been several reported sightings of Tasmanian tigers in the recent years. log in. He says the animal also has short feet like a Tasmanian tiger and shiny hocks, with evidence of striping on the tail. It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. It was really quick; one second it was there in front of me, next second it was way in the distance. A massive animal crossed the road in front of me. Both animals disappeared within seconds into the rainforest.". Canton, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. She and a work mate looked at each other in total disbelief & both said together What in gods name was that? the Tasmanian tiger is not extinct but still roams Australia, . The time was around midnight as they left the Country Club road into Cook Road, then turned into Banksia Road on their way home. 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! Over the last few years, my Husband and I have both seen what we believe to be a Thylacine. ", "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. It moved on all four legs and had a tail similar to a wallaby. 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. There was very little traffic on the roads. The dog rushed in to attack the animal & Mark, the farm owner and several other workers were surprised to see the dog backing out of the shed with an animal almost as large covered with brown stripes across its back and a thick, stiff, kangaroo-like tail. ", "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. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. Mount Victoria locals were asking themselves if more than one tiger was responsible for these killings. Then they all descended back through the bananas to head for home. Generally, although dog-like, it was not Canid, because of the structure of the hind part of the body. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. I did find a not too well-preserved long heel embedded in moist soil. The headlights provided us with a good look at the creature. Thylacine sighting map - Tasmanian Tiger Home Thylacine sighting map Thylacine sighting map Many people have asked for a thylacine sighting map. We had all agreed that it was too large for a feral cat, and too odd in shape as well, and that was certainly true in a number of respects. The bands were about 2 cm wide & about 6 cm apart. The Tasmanian tiger or 'thylacine' The thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. 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. later, one of the men spotted a striped dog-like animal standing near the camp in the dim glow of the dying campfire. ", "January 2008, Byron Bay Andrew and his wife were on holidays from Victoria, staying at an apartment off Cemetery Road in Byron Bay. Please note that I have taken the liberty of quoting liberally from all sources. . The man who teased the world with the release of photos of a Tasmanian tiger family has revealed them today. There were body stripesextending barrel-wise from the mid-back to the tail rump. Like most marsupials, the female had a pouch hence the scientific name Thylacinus Cynocephalus meaning dog-headed pouched-dog. One of the most significant was from Maureen from Byron Post Office whose husband had spotted one while posting letters in The Pocket. The size of a dog, it had a big distinctive head, brown fur and a stiff kangaroo-like tail. The Tasmanian Tiger is to Australia what Sasquatch is to North Americaa creature that has often been sighted but never actually corralled, by deluded amateurs. He said when they stopped it ran out onto the road behind them and froze for a moment also looking at them before dashing off into the forest. Grabbing his camera Kevin leapt from his car and, as he said later, tore up the embankment after it! The sighting occurred on the NSW/Vic border, and so is listed twice in the respective state databases. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. Tasmanian tigers grew to between 39 and 51 inches, with a 20-inch tail. while I was speechless at what I saw. After several fruitless nights, however, he retired to bed on the evening of 14th June. Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. She then saw it run as fast as it could down the street towards the cane fields. The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. The length of the animal was something like 5ft from nose to tail tip. *It's body was longer & out of proportion than all other animals. The fur was short, with a sandy beige colour. The tracks were situated beneath a small embankment close to the waters edge. It was obvious to us that the creature was visiting the farm from the Kanimbla Valley [which lies directly north of Megalong Valley] by moving up the gully. ", "1989, Terania Creek Road, The Channon; running across the road at night in front of his car, Peter saw a thylacine-like animal showing distinct dark brown banding across the body. Advocate (Coffs Harbour, NSW), 9 March. 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