(Thylacinus cynocephalus)", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/. The following forum post was made on 17 February, 2007. Can you believe that? Lopping once again and this time I was closer and still it made no sudden movement like it wasnt scared of my car. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. It had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. oldonload(); // Thylacine sighting in northeast Ohio Thylacine sighting in northeast Ohio. The trap had apparently caught something, but by the time he reached the cage it was empty. They both wouldnt have believed what they had seen unless the other had confirmed it. Plus, save 30% of the subscription price today. By signing up, you will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our. The animals were short-lived and had a life span typically less than a decade, meaning there would need to be many individuals roaming the bush for the species to have survived this long. It is obvious a colony of six to eight of these creatures exists in the gully. Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. Dr. S. J. Paramanov saw a thylacine at 11am along theBourke-Wanaaring Road, while collecting insects close to the road (Paramanov, 1968). It became obvious to us that a colony of from 6 to 8 of these elusive creatures existed in the gully. The largest remnant bushland in western NSW. ", 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. Don was thinking that it looked like a thylacine without stripes & then everyone began asking each other what it was & wondering whether it was a Tasmanian Tiger. He spotted moving along the cement wall on the side of the road. That also means the IUCN will probably have to put the animal back onto the Red List and classify it as critically endangered, surely. The introduction of commercial sheep farming in the 1820s triggered a brutal persecution programme, culminating in a government bounty payment scheme that ran from 1888 to 1909. 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. There have continued to be reported sightings by people who believe the animal is still about. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. (1977). The mystery of the Tasmanian Tiger Scientists used a Tasmanian Thylacine Sighting Records Database to estimate the date of the Tasmanian Tiger's extinction. "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. This is not the first purported Tasmanian tiger footage Mr Waters and TAGOA have released. Pask, whose work on thylacine genetics sees him flooded with identification requests each year, says this is "one of the least convincing" images he's seen. These tracks were however barely half an hour old, and we were able to follow the movements of the Thylacine, observing how it had emerged from a nearby gully to move through foliage to the muddy shoreline, and walk along it for some metres, before stopping to drink at the waters edge, then return the way it had come. 'Tasmanian tiger' footage not of a thylacine but a pademelon, Source:Hunt, Elle. In fact, footage snapped by camera traps or amateur naturalists can help establish the presence and activity patterns of animals in the environment, said Holly English, a doctoral student in wildlife ecology and behavior at University College Dublin. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. Since extinction there have been numerous searches and reported sightings of live animals, none of which have been confirmed. WebEXCEL RIM U:22820643:EXCEL RIM EXCEL RIM: U - - PayPay It had the strangest tailvery long, like a broom pole. Much of this part of Tasmania is virtually inaccessible, with dense, tangled thickets of eucalyptus, so they really could be there, albeit in low numbers, below the radar. : Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, third edition. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. 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.". The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extendedhalf way down the side of the body. The strange and wonderful short-beaked echidna related to the platypus, but with spines like a hedgehog is definitely worth looking for in the dry, open country on the east coast. Either the person was lying, or they mistook another animal for a thylacine, or they had an illusion a sort of waking dream, he says. These were of a chocolat, and not very obvious. Scientists are trying to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger. or maybe they aint.". All Rights Reserved. By and large, academics and wildlife conservationists have kept out of the debate, or at least not voiced strong opinions either way. In both cases the animals had brownish body fur and dark body stripes, and looked exactly like photos of the Thylacine in books". This animal had walked around the edge of before drinking, then retraced its steps back towards the gully. In March 1982, parked in a remote area of swamp forest in north-western Tasmania, wildlife ranger Hans Naarding was asleep in his vehicle. [Available from Lulu]. A Mum, Dad and Joey! The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable, it was an undoubted Thylacine. But what made the creature quite distinctive was the dark body with stripes on the sides, not too dissimilar in fact to the pattern of a Thylacine. It was in clear view for 12-15 seconds. Kim Falconer wrote I heard a loud sound like a cross between a guttural possum noise and a large dog retching. We were driving along the road when a animal stepped out in front of use further down the highway. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. A short time after she saw the animal, while talking to her neighbours, she was surprised to find that three of them had also observed an animal of a similar description. 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. It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. later, one of the men spotted a striped dog-like animal standing near the camp in the dim glow of the dying campfire. Dad always said it was [a Tasmanian tiger]., They believed there could be no doubt.". "Back in 1960 Mr Gordon Pereira [of whom more will be said anon] was a NSW Government Railways station assistant, driving his car home from work at Medlow Bath railway station about 10pm when, 1 miles east of the [since demolished] Caltex depot on Whipcord Hill, on the Great Western Highway, an animal which he described as being about greyhound size with a large head, was caught in his headlights as it ran across the highway from the scrubland on the western [Megalong Valley] side to the railway lines, disappearing within seconds. ", "I believe i saw a saw a Thylocene at the base of the Barrington tops near Wolemi brook on the 21/7/08 at around 11 am, whilst i was travelling to a remote a exploration drill rig site. According to Brook, beyond the usual platitudes of almost any species being unique and remarkable, theres something special about this one. It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. Trailing a Tiger. 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. (Thylacine Research Unit) provides details of reports made directly to them Among the adult population 25 years old and over, 95.7% of Lindon residents have at least a high school degree or equivalent, 42.5% have a bachelor's degree and 14.8% have a graduate or professional degree. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particular. I decided to examine the animal carefully before risking movement. Feb 28, 2021. ", "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. We've done it.". 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. ProfessorPask says he and his team are working to try and develop techniquesto bring back multiple extinctanimals. I am a geologist and had another geologist see it too. #1. while I was speechless at what I saw. ", Johns third sighting of a tiger took place in March 1984 around 6.10am. Just as we drove up the one way road a creature darted across the road. 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. You can unsubscribe at any time. Should we bring mammoths back from extinction? But on Feb. 23, Neil Waters, president of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, promised conclusive photographic proof of a surviving thylacine. It had stripes down its back. Christian Kopp had a second encounter with a thylacine (first: NSW.c1992.xx.xx) while out riding his motorbike. "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. He noticed the ears were rounded and that it stood about 1/2m high, its mouth was open. A short time later a bakery representative from the Gold Coast also saw the animal & commented to Sue about it.". Tasmanian tiger) family have been captured and sent to the Hobart Museum for verification. "This led to Nulkabas Max Burke telling us a yarn about a trip to Pumpkin Gully, which he said was in the wilds out from Singleton. Both were of a buff colour with distinctively rounded ears, hunched backs and remarkably long thin straight tails. The thylacine hunter posted a video sipping a tinny somewhere in Tassie. This animal's head was dog-like, but its ears were shaped somewhat like a cat's. The last close sighting was about 6 months ago and it was right by our car on our forest drive. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 11(3): 13-30. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". The discovery of the carcase in the area of Eucla, and my observation of the live specimen, convinces me that the animal still exists on the mainland of Australia.". It had distinctive stripes across its back & rump, which sloped down to a long kangaroo-like tail. It had short fur, very stiff, thick at the base (a long broom handle) and it didnt act like a dogs tail. ", "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. There were capture records from the south-west under the bounty system, he says. The tapered tail and we could see the faint stripes. He described the creature as having black to faded stripes on its back-end and smaller than a dingo. In search of mountain tigers. Tasmania covers 64,000km and is a very diverse landscape, he says. Australasian Post, 31 January. Now that they have access to DNA editing technology, the next step is to turn the genome of the thylacine into a living animal. The other possibility is, of course, that its true. 27.07 - MU Plus+ Podcast - Flames of Prophecy, 29.07 - MU Podcast - Contract with the Goddess, 29.06 - MU Podcast - Italian Disco Abductions, 27.06 - MU Plus+ Podcast - Secret Vaults of Time, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Queen's Ghost, Small Lake Monster, Space Caterpillar and More Mysterious News Briefly, A Haunted Book and the Most Haunted Bookshop There Is. I looked for prints. 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. It popped out on this spot where we get wood, close to a creek, he said. Theres something about thylacines that makes you want to believe in them.. An anonymous report (including two separate sightings) made to REPAD: "In about 2007, 2008 I saw this creature at Bowna Reserve in NSW (near Albury 2640). Our knowledge base has a lot of resources to help you! All rights reserved. What does one make of these? Nearby residents Allan & Maureen also observed the animal. The search for the thylacine, much like similar efforts to rediscover other recently extinct charismatic taxa, is likely to be fruitless, especially given that persistence on Tasmania would have been no guarantee the species could reappear in regions that had been unoccupied for millennia, the researchers wrote. 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. Here's what they think of a Voice to Parliament, Prime minister says urgent care clinics will start relieving pressure on NT's busy emergency wards in coming months, NRL concedes error on crucial golden point call, 'We really need massive help': Sudan refugees give birth in camps without medical help or shelter. It was 1ft tall by 3ft length from head to tail. "In September, 1983, I led a search into this region [i.e. It had already crossed the road heading west into gum forest, but stopped, standing side on as I approached about 100ft from it. 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. However, I had never observed a wallaby engaged in such an unusual activity, stretched out along the ground instead of the normal upright posture or bent down feeding on vegetation. The size of a dog, it had a big distinctive head, brown fur and a stiff kangaroo-like tail. I was going through that process and I, and it, it didn't work. I have not seen one like this before. They follow a tradition of claims about photographic or video evidence of the lost Australian species. ", "2005, South Golden Beach, Kolora Way; Lyndel observed a thylacine-like animal without stripes.".