The coat was like a newly sheared sheep in looka short, uniform length, fawn to light brown, and very dense, not laying flat like a dog or cat or even horse coat. It was the size of a small dingo but with an elongated, slim body and the hind quarters was more prominent. (1982). (1811). Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". "'There is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit's own thylacine sighting: "3rd February 2007, Jones Road, Yelgun; just after dark, Gary Opit watched, for about 5 minutes, an unidentifiable carnivorous marsupial that measured approximately 1.75 m in length and about .75 m in height standing in the middle of Jones Road, Yelgun, adjacent the Billinudgel Nature Reserve. Sly is Ty's brother (and former enemy) and a recurring character in the series. This is Opit's summarisation of the report (in bold): "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. So it was that stealthy, whatever it was, that even the pademelons who hear one twig break and they're outta there, it didn't hear it.I've been running tours out there for seven years, but you know going out into the rainforest, you know three or four times a week and that's the only time I've seen something that I couldn't explain. 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. This is Opit's summarisation of the report: "1964, May, Monday, 5 a.m. Whian Whian State Forest; Clive gave me a very detailed description of the animal observed twice in 1 week. It was dog-sized but not thin like a greyhound. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. There is a maze of rock crevices and caverns in which any animals could live unseen, and it is into this gully that the 'tiger' tracks led. Three years later the last of its kind in captivity, named Benjamin, died a lonesome death in the Hobart Zoo. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. Tasmanian tigers were well-adapted to the climate, with eight types of hair including hollow hairs to trap heat A microscopic examination of the recently rediscovered pelt revealed the animal's fur varied in coarseness, shape and colour, and it had at least three layers of body hair. The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. The snout was not longer than a greyhound and was more Alsatian-like. 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. Its physical appearance matched that of stuffed specimens preserved in government museums. Here it is. There was also a rock shelter some distance off the rough, 4-wheel drive trail we were on, where we came across pigmy-size ochre paintings. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Peter, principal of Main Arm School saw what looked to him very much like a thylacine. "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. 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. "The same type of animal was seen killing a sheep in Megalong Valley in January 1987. The eyes were very keen, watching in a way domestic dogs do not. ", 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. ", "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. On Sept. 7, 1936, the animal known as . At this moment they both saw a greyhound-like animal, long and skinny, run across the highway from the right-hand side [south] to the left [north]. 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. It had a long thin straight tail, short sandy brown fur, a greyhound look to it and an odd gait. What I am certain is it wasn't is a Dog, Cat, Fox, Kangaroo. These sightings do not include the most recent sightings of the last five to ten years. 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. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. Two Tasmanian tigers in captivity at the Hobart Zoo. He stated it had a tail like a roo, but not touching the ground. These were mostly reported by motorists.". Steve mentioned to Pete that he and his family have seen thylacines on his farm on occasions. Its size was that of a medium-sized dog, and the body proportions were also dog-like; it was uniformly grey-brown, with short hair; the strange tail, extremely wide at the base, seemed to be a continuation of the hindquarters; the hind leg was strongly marked with almost black horizontal stripes. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. 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. and again as it loped away in a carefree manner. He stopped and had a look but the animal had run off unhurt.". It could be found across the entirety of Australia, and even into the south of New Guinea. Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. 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. However in the dense scrub we came across signs of a scuffle over a large area, between a wild pig and a thylacine, as indicated by thee dozens of tracks embedded in the soil. It was unconcerned by his approaching car and he was able to get a close look at it. 01 of 10 Its tail was darker and it had short hair just like a roo. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. When we saw the skin pegged out, my father was surprised because he had not seen a live one for perhaps 40 years and believed there were none left alive.". The time was approximately 6.15 - 6.30 am and the sun had been up for about 30 minutes. An Ambulance officer related this story to a colleague sometime after 1998. A screenshot of the video was also posted to Imgur.. Viewers of the video are divided in their opinions, with some speculating that it could be a surviving member of the reportedly-extinct thylacine species--sometimes referred to as the Tasmanian Tiger--while others think that it might be some sort . She stated No stripes, but a distinctly wild animal, reddish brown short hair, above knee-high. We live in Upper Wilsons Creek and our property backs onto Mt Jerusalem National Park. The animal had escaped into scrubland that extends eastward to a gully, which drops down into the Grose Valley, where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported seen by campers and bushwalkers to the present day.". 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. This prompted the author to try to confirm that they still live. Eight alleged sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wilderness have been reported to the state government over the past three years. 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. So from that experience I do believe they are still knocking around.". 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? seen by Robyn Simon and Rebecca Jackson could only be a visitor to the, area, until it settles into a new habitat, perhaps with its mate if one is nearby, out on the, Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? A woman hounded out of Byron Bay for her reporting to have seen a thylacine. Walkabout 34(12): 8. I have looked at other posts and have seen that they have described it as I saw it. It popped out on this spot where we get wood, close to a creek, he said. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. #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. I could see it entering a stand of gums across a paddock about 200ft away, so gave chase. NSW, 2289 02 4047 3986 He phoned the national parks service, a local wildlife carer and some time later, the North Coast Local ABC radio station while I was broadcasting my Wildlife Talkback programme. 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. 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. Againno familiar dog body language. The area was open paddock with a ridge-line that the animal was moving along. Whatever it was it most certainly was neither a dog nor a dingo. 216 pp. 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. Source: Anonymous. The mature thylacine ranged from 100 to 130 cm long, with a tail of around 50 . Also, on some evenings we hear an unusual sound from the same general area (our farm borders xxxx Rd). ", "In 1986 the Gilroys were contacted by Mrs Patricia Marson, to say that, in October 1972, she was on a camping trip with the Sydney Bushwalkers Club at Mount Wilson, which like nearby Mount Irvine, overlooks the Wollemi National Park/Wollangambe Wilderness country, from out of which tigers have been known to emerge to be seen hereabouts and at nearby Bilpin. ", Johns third sighting of a tiger took place in March 1984 around 6.10am. Since Benjamin died on September 7, 1936, there has been no official sighting of a Tasmanian tiger. 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 . Its body was greyish-brown and when it got up we observed that it's hindquarters appeared "tucked in" and were marked with dark stripes. It had no spots, but it had stripes just like the long-gone Tasmanian tiger.. Rather excited about the whole thing I tried officially reporting it to the ranger, who showed absolutely no interest in the matter, as you might expect. As they passed through Medlow Bath, and just past the Foy Avenue turnoff, which is a busy area, about 6.1 metres ahead of his vehicle, illuminated by the headlights and standing on the left of the highway near street lights, they all spotted a dog-like animal of Alsatian size. Its prehistoric presence there first came to light in 1960 when archeologists discovered the lower jaw of a Tasmanian tiger. It was covered in short sandy fur, had a long thin head and face with upright ears. 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. She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. The following quote is taken from a book, and does not include any direct quotes from the witness: "Among those who say they have seen thylacines in the mountainous wilderness of the Namadgi-Kosciusco National Park along the New South Wales-Victorian border is ranger Peter Simon, who saw one for several seconds in broad daylight in 1982, from a distance of 100 feet." ", "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. What were probably the same pair were seen by Winmalee residents moving about in scrub behind St Columba's College. 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). The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. After several fruitless nights, however, he retired to bed on the evening of 14th June. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp". ", "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. 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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. 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. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. However, in 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger died, and the Thylacine was considered extinct. On hearing from Mr Heath of some of the Thylacine sightings he had been told about, an academic at a Queensland . "On 13th June 1982, Heather and I were phoned by Mr Sam Condon, a university mathematics student and farmer, who owned a farm on the eastern side of Mittagong on the Wollondilly River. It was only about a metre or two in front of my car. The reported sightings are contained in a document from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE). after a good few seonds it loped away. (1985). It was 11 am, and I observed the animal for 1-2 minutes from a distance of about 15-20 metres; it ran along the sand which was covered with some very small bushes, the rest of the area being sandy. Each time it was in the same area, crossing the same road xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, heading into a sugar cane field. Researchers are looking for the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland after potential sightings suggest the species might not be extinct. We could see the shape. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. Footage of the last Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Australia, from 1933. "On the night of Saturday 1st April 2000, 16-year-old Shannon Kus, his mother Marjorie and his mate Brad Miller, were walking home from the Wentworth Falls Country Club. The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine . It was illuminated by the headlights of my car approximately 20 m in front of me. That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. We were driving on xxxx Rd at the time. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. I recognised them to be those of an undoubted Thylacine. Refresh the. The animal stood about 61cm off the. They ranged in size from 100-130cm in length and 50-65cm in height, and. One of the most significant was from Maureen from Byron Post Office whose husband had spotted one while posting letters in The Pocket. This is the only report of a mother and its young.". Dr. S. J. Paramanov saw a thylacine at 11am along theBourke-Wanaaring Road, while collecting insects close to the road (Paramanov, 1968). (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. Local naturalists were convinced from the general description, that the mystery carnivore was a Thylacine. She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. I decided that this was not a wallaby but, from its distinctive body shape, a carnivorous marsupial. March 2, 2021 - 2:00PM The highly anticipated photos of a 'living' Tasmania tiger family have been released and the man who captured them says he's "absolutely confident" at least one is a thylacine. Although it could possibly be a fox or bird, when I looked up the sound a thylacine makes, it was identical to one we found on YouTube. The tapered tail and we could see the faint stripes. In both cases the animals had brownish body fur and dark body stripes, and looked exactly like photos of the Thylacine in books". He only saw the Thylacine twice during the same week, approximately 3 years after he began working in those ranges. He said it had stripes & a sloping back. The animals face was like a dingo/dog/wolf but with rounder ears. We came to some wild, hilly country covered with scrub and rocks. It never stopped and kept a constant pace. Thylacine winter. Was it a tiger? (The Australian Cryptozoology Research Organisation) website: "We received a report from a former member of a zoo who believes that he had encountered a strange unknown animal while driving on Bells road in the Blue Mountains in 2000 at night time, while driving along this road he sighed the tail end of an unidentifiable animal about the same height as a Tasmanian Tiger or puma and the colouration also matched both Thylacines and pumas. Source:Paramanov, S. J. The last captive tiger died on September 7, 1936 at the since-defunct Beaumaris Zoo. The animal was in the headlights of my car eating road kill in the middle of a road and then bolted into thick scrub. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. north of Grose Valley] accompanied by expert bushmen Rod Gerney and Robert Ashworth and several assistants in a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles.. Suddenly we saw sitting in the road ahead an animal which at first we took to be a dog. Upon examining the cage, he found that the creature, whatever it was, had escaped by ripping through the chicken-wire covering, leaving a hole 8 by 11 inches in size. 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 had a rigid tail. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. The most remarkable feature was the strange manner of running: although the animal was swinging regularly sideways, the hind part of the body made a kind of bobbing up and down movement; the impression was as if the animal was drunk, as I had never seen anything like it. The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. 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". In November 2017, three investigators including. While some of these tracks were indistinct amid small twig and leaf fragments, two were not, and I cast these. It was the movement of its pelvis and its shyness and the way it dropped its head and pushed its pelvis up and hopped into the bush that alerted me to the fact that this was a different animal to any Id seen before. ", I take "on occasions" to represent at least three separate encounters (viz. 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