This species, also called Thylacine, was declared extinct after the last known specimen died in captivity, in an Australian zoo in 1936. I have looked at other posts and have seen that they have described it as I saw it. Biologist and wildlife expert Nick Mooney has for years reviewed thylacine accounts and apparent footage and images. It was long in the flank, like a horse. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. This animal had walked around the edge of before drinking, then retraced its steps back towards the gully. Then a car passed it and the animal ran off into the bush from where it had emerged.". It then ran off under a barb wire fence to disappear into the regrowth vegetation.". ", "That same year a Tasmanian Tiger-like animal, was seen by Mr Bill Forbes [since deceased] after it had just killed one of the goats he bred on his Mt York Road farm.". 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. (Image credit: National Film and . She saw it for quite a while. It was verging on dusk and the train was of course travelling quickly, but the unusual head and the tail shape and striped appearance were unmistakable. It was unconcerned by his approaching car and he was able to get a close look at it. ", "One lady in particular swears she saw one near a supermarket in Brighton Le Sands N.S.W. Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. I hoped to find some specific characteristics from the footprints, but the sandy soil did not show them up; they were of the size of a medium-sized dog's imprint. Share your thoughts in the comments below or vote in our poll above, To join the conversation, please The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Thylacine, has been presumed extinct since 1936 . ", "Late 2007, New Brighton; Don was driving a bus with 8 passengers between 2 and 3am when they all observed a large unusual thylacine-like carnivore eating a small animal on the road, probably a bandicoot struck by an earlier vehicle near the speed bump. When Europeans first settled, the Tasmanian tiger was rarely seen, however, they became increasingly blamed for attacks on sheep. It was definitely not a dog. It moved on all four legs and had a tail similar to a wallaby. After the second time I saw it, it was gone nowhere to be seen. Steve mentioned to Pete that he and his family have seen thylacines on his farm on occasions. A woman hounded out of Byron Bay for her reporting to have seen a thylacine. He described it as having a head and body about 1 m long with a longish pointed tail about 60cm long. 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. I could see it entering a stand of gums across a paddock about 200ft away, so gave chase. Whilst travelling east along the Bruxner Highway through the lighter wooded area, coming off the range, about ten minutes west of Drake he had a close view of a strange animal that looked like a thylacine without stripes. It was observed from head on and it loped off, almost kangaroo-like with a very unusual movement. The following day I showed the impressions to Phil Whittaker. The report says both people in the car were "100% sure it was a thylacine". Suddenly we saw sitting in the road ahead an animal which at first we took to be a dog. In 2005, two German tourists to Tasmania, Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen claimed to have taken pictures of a live Tasmanian tiger. My wife works at the Werribee zoo in Melbourne and it certainly wasnt like any of the cats they have there. To say I was astonished would be an understatement. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable, it was an undoubted Thylacine. The head looked Alsatian-like but had shorter, thicker ears than a greyhound. They weighed up to 66 pounds. Then it just loped off the road into the yard, Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. I could tell by its fur. The eyes were very keen, watching in a way domestic dogs do not. The tail was long and stuck straight out behind it. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. Years later I mentioned it to locals in Wee Waa when I worked there as a doctor. The colour was golden-fawn, 60 cm in height and the ears were rounded. 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. In both cases the animals had brownish body fur and dark body stripes, and looked exactly like photos of the Thylacine in books". She loped away, heading west towards the golf course. 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. 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.". after a good few seonds it loped away. Although. While Mr Waters says the larger animals in the photos - which he claims to be the mother and father - arent giving much away, he says the joey says it all. 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 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. "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. Ummm but then I started thinking about it you know, what was it that I saw? What I am certain is it wasn't is a Dog, Cat, Fox, Kangaroo. 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. (2017). 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. We could see the shape. He says the animal also has short feet like a Tasmanian tiger and shiny hocks, with evidence of striping on the tail. Eight alleged sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wilderness have been reported to the state government over the past three years. Weighing approximately 25kg, the Thylacine was around 60cm tall at the shoulder, with a body roughly 115cm long and a 50-65cm long tail. He described it to us as a short greyish-furred animal, with narrow flanks and a drooping, long thin tail. 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 tried to explain it to people for years but couldn't. There were body stripesextending barrel-wise from the mid-back to the tail rump. The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. 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. ", "During 1968 an old man told locals around Winmalee north of Springwood, that he had seen two Thylacines emerge together from a gully thereabouts that leads into the Grose Valley. There are some very telltale signs here that this is everything but a pademelon.. Rod and I later staked out the site overnight with cameras, in the hope of capturing a tiger on film as it came to drink at the swamp, but failed to see any. He was Boss Cass's best henchman Its ears were not as big as a roo or a fox. 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. ", "15th February 2006, Hastings Point; Rose described a strange dog-like animal that she saw while driving to work in the morning. According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a big Labrador dog, moving with a slinkyloping movement, somewhat like a cat. As we passed thick roadside scrub, an animal almost the size of a full grown Alsatian dog, with fawn-coloured body fur and a row of blackish body stripes, ran across the highway in front of the car. ", "The Minto Monster was back in the news again in 1973 when claims that a mysterious creature had been 'terrorising' East Minto residents with its blood curdling screams. log in. It was covered in short sandy fur, had a long thin head and face with upright ears. NSW, 2289 02 4047 3986 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." 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 all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. Between 2016 to 2019, the report notes seven sightings of the Tasmanian tiger. It was greyhound-like, the head was like that of a kangaroo, particularly because of its kangaroo-like ears that stood straight up, the ribs were tucked up and the rump was uplifted. It was only about a metre or two in front of my car. Each time it was in the same area, crossing the same road xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, heading into a sugar cane field. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. Rex Gilroy, during an expedition north of the Grose Valley: "We returned to the swamp last February, and found more evidence. The film was recently colorized by Composite Films in Paris. My brothers wife and I were in the front. He described the creature as having black to faded stripes on its back-end and smaller than a dingo. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. 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. 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. It was probably heading for the nearby Grose Valley, he said.". The Guardian (Australia), Thursday 1 December. Then seeing us, turned and dashed off into the darkness. 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. "8th February 2006, Thursday morning between 5.30 and 6.00 am, Mullumbimby; my 23 year old daughter Shanti saw what she believed to be a thylacine. Researchers are looking for the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland after potential sightings suggest the species might not be extinct. ", Source:https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, "Mr John Gilmore phoned me in August 1986, to relate an experience he had back in August 1979, while driving along Putty Road towards Bulga. It was not a wild dog nor kangaroo". These tracks were cast and later compared with others made from freshly-made paw prints in Tasmania with which they match up. Christian, who now lives at Seal Rocks, remembers the experience as clear as day. We can't state an exact date but it seems that the dodo only died-off at the end of 17th century. The front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. He vividly recalled his dads words: You dont see this every day, son. It was completely unconcerned by the presence of his car and he closely examined it for 5 minutes before it walked off. (1985). It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. ", "1997, Mt Warning; Heidi described her brothers observation of a thylacine. ", Source:Anonymous. The animal moved in a way that I had never encountered before. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. It was at the edge of the bush at the top of a small gully. 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.". He had only just found the tracks that morning and asked Heather and I to come and inspect them. Here it is. It popped out on this spot where we get wood, close to a creek, he said. Russel observed on two occasions in the same place, families of three very sleek thylacine-like animals with brown lion-like coloured fur, dark bands on the flanks, with long rigid tails held low to the ground, running through the bush. 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. It was making a strange guttural yapping noise as it tried to attack our cats. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extendedhalf way down the side of the body. ", Source:http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, "In 1977 Mike said he saw a similar animal in Hartley Valley around 9pm one evening while driving to work. A large excerpt, possibly the entirety of the paper, is given at the Thylacine Museum website: "During the CSIRO Entomological Expedition, November 1949, I had the good fortune of seeing the animal on the route from Bourke to Wanaaring, in an uninhabited area a few miles past the Warrego Rivers, where I was collecting on the right-hand side of the road, only a few yards from the road. They said when they saw it, they both said "what was that", because it looked different to anything they had seen before. It looked straight at me before moving away. "On the night of 6th October 1982, at 8.26pm, Mr John Galluzzi was driving toward Katoomba on the Great Western Highway, when, at the bottom of Boddington Hill, Wentworth Falls, This creature appeared, cantering across the road from right to left. I was driving down Bruce Road at Glenbrook, when at a spot 20 yards from the location of my previous [January 1983] sighting, I saw either the same animal or another, eating some small animal, perhaps a possum, on the roadside. Anonymous. Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. ", His second experience occurred in January 1983, when from his bedroom window he saw what may have been the same animal seen by him the previous July, or another one, as it moved beneath a street light in the early hours of the morning. 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