These were of a chocolat, and not very obvious. The Thylacine - Its History and Sightings. Don't have an account? 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. At least eight sightings of Tasmanian tigers have been reported recently, reviving speculation the mammal is not extinct, as scientists insist. I was on my way to work at the time, heading for Glenbrook Railway Station and had no time to pursue it, when it ran off holding its prey in its mouth. Was it a tiger? NSW, 2289 02 4047 3986 But not everyone is convinced. At first I thought that it was a swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) that are common in this locality. The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. Trailing a Tiger. The animal was in the headlights of my car eating road kill in the middle of a road and then bolted into thick scrub. Kim Falconer wrote I heard a loud sound like a cross between a guttural possum noise and a large dog retching. [The Thylacine was surely a male, females beingmore thickset - RG]. Black and white footage of Benjamin recorded in 1933 would become historically significant as the final images of the final Thylacine. It looked like a female lion, but it had stripes on the flank and stripes on the tail. Australasian Post, 31 January. "'There is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. It had a very long thin tail that drooped down then lifted up towards the end. Thylacine sighting map - Tasmanian Tiger Home Thylacine sighting map Thylacine sighting map Many people have asked for a thylacine sighting map. There were body stripes, back to the tail rump. More from Local News Dr. S. J. Paramanov saw a thylacine at 11am along theBourke-Wanaaring Road, while collecting insects close to the road (Paramanov, 1968). Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. No stripes but a hint of black on legs and ears, white muzzle, like you might see on an elderly dog, black nose. ", "1999, Federal; Graham and Rosalind had a close view of a strange animal when driving between Whian Road and Bates Road near the old Dip when the headlights illuminated it. More like a retching possum and it was surprisingly loud. Sly is Ty's brother (and former enemy) and a recurring character in the series. Mr Waters says the head is rather broad for a pademelon. 13 May 1930 - Last thylacine killed in the wild. By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild had become extremely rare and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilf Batty shot and killed the last known wild Tasmanian tiger. "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 . Far longer than any dogs tail & kinda looked like a kangaroo's tail. The snout was not longer than a greyhound and was more Alsatian-like. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. She and a work mate looked at each other in total disbelief & both said together What in gods name was that? On Sept. 7, 1936, the animal known as . The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. They said when they saw it, they both said "what was that", because it looked different to anything they had seen before. 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. The Tasmanian Tiger was a sandy brown-yellow and had dark stripes wrapped around its back. Early timber getters never entered this inaccessible area. It walked, trotted and loped. ", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20210225014002/http://garyopit.com/64-thylacine-sightings/, "During April 1967 sightings of a tiger were being made at Putty Road farms, particularly in the Howes Valley area, where some poultry had been claimed snatched by one, perhaps two of these creatures. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extendedhalf way down the side of the body. Its physical appearance matched that of stuffed specimens preserved in government museums. I searched the locality but found no sign of a body. The Tasmanian tiger, a large striped carnivore, is believed to have gone extinct over 80 years ago - but newly released Australian government documents show sightings have been reported . When I saw the impressions I recognised them at once as those of a Thylacine, and immediately began making plaster casts of them. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 27 March, p. 46. " Christian Kopp (11 at the time) and his father saw a thylacine when collecting firewood. At the time of writing this book [2017] Thylacine tracks are still being left at this site.". [a pack of thylacine-like animals seen on the Vic/NSW border in 1977]. Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. They weighed up to 66 pounds. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. The tail, he noticed, was long and pointed, and followed the slope of the back. Each time it was in the same area, crossing the same road xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, heading into a sugar cane field. It is almost legendary in its native land, and although purportedly extinct, there have been numerous sightings, photographs, and video footage put forward over the years that . To this day I wish I had have got out to speak to the driver of the 'cruiser, but my head was just spinning! A Sydney driver found a crowd around his vehicle and an unsettling note when he returned to his car after shopping. ", "October 2005, Terragon, south of Uki, near Kunghur; Shirley woke very early to the sounds of her chooks going right off. Sam said that one night in June 1980 about 10.30pm, as he and his wife were driving up their dirt road toward their farmhouse, their headlights caught three Alsatian dog-size animals, yellowish-brown furred, with vertical black body stripes along their bodies, feeding upon a wallaby they had apparently just killed on the roadside. 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. It was a bit after dusk. Some years later he saw it again at the same time and place & then his wife saw it in similar circumstances near their house. We live in Upper Wilsons Creek and our property backs onto Mt Jerusalem National Park. The report says both people in the car were "100% sure it was a thylacine". 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. 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. Grabbing his camera Kevin leapt from his car and, as he said later, tore up the embankment after it! (2016). Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itself, somewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush, choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drive, It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from Megalong. ", "That month Mr Ron Perry was picnicking with his family in the valley around 3pm one day on the bank of the Cox River Picnic Ground. The trap had apparently caught something, but by the time he reached the cage it was empty. It's Rob here, I just had another sighting of a Tasmanian Tiger on Friday 24th Jan 2020. (2017). 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. In both cases the animals had brownish body fur and dark body stripes, and looked exactly like photos of the Thylacine in books". 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. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Peter, principal of Main Arm School saw what looked to him very much like a thylacine. I wondered through my work day trying to figure out what the hell I had just sighted, and next day I went round to the local National Parks office to ask about it. Story. I showed him a photo on-line, and he said "That's it. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. Source:https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm. ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. He also noticed the body tended to slope downwards and the long tail followed the slope of the back. It stopped and looked in my direction then it continued off into the bush. The Tasmanian Tiger was in fact a marsupial rather than a big cat, and its proper name is the thylacine. ", Johns third sighting of a tiger took place in March 1984 around 6.10am. Following this animal were 3 smaller identical animals. The animal can reach up to 1.3 meters (51 inches) long, with its tail accounting for between 19-25 inches of that total (Campbell). They checked them every few days also. He was certain that it was not a cat, fox or dog. 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.". I ran outside to find my cat facing off with a dog-like creature 4 times its size. 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. I could see it entering a stand of gums across a paddock about 200ft away, so gave chase. The size of a dog, it had a big distinctive head, brown fur and a stiff kangaroo-like tail. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". CNN . 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. Just as we drove up the one way road a creature darted across the road. It looked like a cross between a dog and a kangaroo. I made all the observations with great care, hoping to discuss the animal with my colleagues, but they unfortunately had been collecting on the opposite side of the road, and had not seen it. They never did see any sign of it again. As we approached the turnoff to Evans Lookout, and on the corner of the local city council water catchment fence [left side of road going south] which encloses a vast area of scrubland, we saw in the glare of the cars headlights a strange animal. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. At first she thought that it was a wallaby. They ranged in size from 100-130cm in length and 50-65cm in height, and. One bounty hunter suggested it was a lost species of extinct Tasmanian Tiger. It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. It was about 18 kg, fawn coloured short dense fur. Most data was collected from old material. [Available from Lulu]. It was at the edge of the bush at the top of a small gully. While the unconfirmed sightings may fuel the hopes of some, the thylacine is still widely considered to be extinct. 7:30pm when in front of me on the side of the road, eating a dead kangaroo, was a medium/large long, slender dog shaped animal with a kangaroo-style tail. He stated it had a tail like a roo, but not touching the ground. I recognised them to be those of an undoubted Thylacine. We were driving along the road when a animal stepped out in front of use further down the highway. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. This animal had walked around the edge of before drinking, then retraced its steps back towards the gully. The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. I found fresh faeces that may be its (it was not obviously male) and have frozen a sample. (2017). The picture of a thylacine on the Tasmanian Cascade Beer label would be the closest animal to what we saw. ", "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 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. "2008, Upper Wilsons Creek; Tracey emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe her sighting. In all cases I have clearly cited the source. Suddenly, at 5am he was woken by sounds coming from the direction of the cage, situated at the far end of his property on the edge of thick bushland. What do you think about the photos? It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. So from that experience I do believe they are still knocking around.". He stopped the car and turned off the motor and watched it from 2 metres away in the high beam of the headlights as it stared at him. near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. 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. ", "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. ", 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. ", "2005, New Brighton; Gary and Sharmaine observed a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump. The carnivorous Thylacine ate rodents, birds, kangaroos and other marsupials. Despite all official . 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 creature then ran down the side of a house into scrub. ", "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. (2017). I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. We found wallaby tracks nearby and signs of a scuffle. The document includes detailed accounts of alleged close encounters with the mysterious predator across the northern and western regions of the state. 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. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. 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. The time was around midnight as they left the Country Club road into Cook Road, then turned into Banksia Road on their way home. ", "26th February 2006, 3.15 pm, Redgate Road, South Golden Beach; Steve and Michelle and their family were riding their bikes when they saw a strange animal in the short grass. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particularroute. A massive animal crossed the road in front of me. Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. . An Ambulance officer related this story to a colleague sometime after 1998. Had it found its way across country, movingat night, from the Medlow Bath-Grose Valley region, keeping to the water catchment scrub intoKatoomba, or else along the Megalong Valley cliffs side, avoiding houses to reach the area it wasseen in? 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.". There were body stripesextending barrel-wise from the mid-back to the tail rump. The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. There was blood on the wire and wooden framework and a trail of paw prints led from there down a bush track. 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. It was not a fox, wild dog or Dingo or Quoll!!. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. I have looked at other posts and have seen that they have described it as I saw it. "On the night of Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, I was with a woman friend, being driven along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath to my home at Katoomba. It appeared greyish-brown, with dark stripes on the hind quarters, but none occurred up front. Just outside the town was a small separate community called Brown Town by the locals. The tail was thicker at the base than at the tip and was about 1ft in length. He realised that only one species could answer the dog-like physical appearance of this strange animal, and that was a Tasmanian Tiger. He said other members of his family has seen the same animal on separate occasions, as had neighbours. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. Five vets all agree it looks like a four-legged animal and not a macropod that hops, Mr Waters says. The creature looked like a dog-possum-bird-kangaroo, but was none of these. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. 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. It then ran across the road as I pulled up. As we were driving towards Rosebank, I saw an animal about the size of a whippet dash across a grassy slope. He thought it couldn't be true, Christian said of his dad, who he described as your typical Australian bushy. 01 of 10 It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. The following day I showed the impressions to Phil Whittaker. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. Its ears were not as big as a roo or a fox. It looked straight at me before moving away. 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. "It is almost extinct, but not quite. ", "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. Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp". The hocks were pronounced and lowit rocked back on them when it loped away. June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend, Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba. "Good description given, bounded into bush," the report states. ", "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. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. [January 1979 sighting by married couple at night], "1979, Tyagarah; David saw a strange thylacine-like animal and it reminded him of the Tyagarah Lion observations that people had talked about over the years.". It didnt run. It had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. We began our expedition on Saturday 24th September 1983. Numbats are closely related to the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. ", "A friend, Haley, told them that around about 1996 she had observed a large cat-like creature with a plain coloured body and a banded furred tail leap across Coopers Creek behind Durrumbul north of Mullumbimby in northeastern NSW. We can't state an exact date but it seems that the dodo only died-off at the end of 17th century. About the edge of the swamp I found another set of "tiger" tracks. Years later I mentioned it to locals in Wee Waa when I worked there as a doctor. At one particular spot we came across paw prints unlike any of the others and certainly not those of any dog. The tracks were situated beneath a small embankment close to the waters edge. "30th December 2008, 6:15 am, 5-37 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay, NSW. I have no doubt about what I saw. Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? I saw it for about 5 seconds as it crossed a remote dirt road. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. They decided that it could only be a Tasmanian tiger and phoned the national parks service to report the sighting and where most annoyed when they were not believed and told that they could not possibly have seen such an animal because it is extinct. From a newspaper article: "Ive seen plenty of dingoes in my life and Im educated quite well on animals and the bush, he said. That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. This meant it strongly resembled a dog or a wolf, however, unlike canines the legs were proportionally short and the tail was stiff. In November 1993, during a holiday in northern Queensland, the author met a man who witnessed a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) on Cape York Peninsular. In November 2017, three investigators including. ", "2003, Upper Main Arm; bush regenerator Mark had a close observation of a thylacine-like animal at midday and observed its striped back and stiff tail as it stood near the roadside. The animal was going for a gully that stands on the eastern side of the highway.". The area was open paddock with a ridge-line that the animal was moving along. 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. ["Two animals of the hyena kind"]. It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. I believed that its hunched back was due to the fact that it was bent over sniffing the ground. ", "6th February 2006, Mullumbimby, Left Bank Road, Sunday morning, 6:10 am; Alisha and her mother were going to the market and when they pulled out of Yankee Creek Road and went round the bend they saw a strange animal that was too big to be a cat and that was not a dog or a fox and it had stripes across the back, rounded ears & a long stiff tail.". However, now she felt reluctant to go for walks on the road. The animal seen on video is about a metre in length and about 50cm tall, which would be. 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. In search of mountain tigers. The following forum post was made on 17 February, 2007. He described it as having a head and body about 1 m long with a longish pointed tail about 60cm long. #6.1-6.3), "Pete was next talking to the father of one of his childrens friend at The Pocket School, who owns a cattle farm opposite the school. He believes about 200 Tasmanian tigers exist in three separate groups on the island, 100 in the south-west, 70 in the north-west and 30 in the north-east. Feral predator-free areas are being established to save a range of endangered marsupials. It was grey with dark grey mottling on its rump like bands, it had distinctive large round ears and was quite unlike a dog or fox. Known officially to science as a thylacine, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs . 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