While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. Western Australian Naturalist 10(7): 171-172. Its body fur was a mousy-brown colour with greyish stripes extending barrel-wise along the body. Its body was sloped and the tail followed the slope. The community was abuzz after Neil Waters, President of Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, shared a three-minute video from "some little town" in northeast Tasmania on Monday. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service acknowledges and pays respect to Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners, and continuing custodians of this land and acknowledges Elders - past, present . : Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, third edition. The last captive tiger died on September 7, 1936 at the since-defunct Beaumaris Zoo. Next time I see it I will take a photo. ", "February 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Rayleen saw a thylacine-like animal crossing the road. 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. They had previously observed it on two earlier separate occasions and enquiring of the neighbours, were told that all three families on adjoining properties had observed the animal going back at least ten years but had never bothered to report it. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. Both animals disappeared within seconds into the rainforest.". ", "1992, 8.30 pm, Coopers Shoot Road, Bangalow; Vicki said that the weirdest animal appeared in the middle of the road. It was very dark brown in colour, its back was distinctly hunched and it was stationary. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. ", "January 2008, Byron Bay Andrew and his wife were on holidays from Victoria, staying at an apartment off Cemetery Road in Byron Bay. "There's a lot more chronic searching these days with cameras and wildlife traps for other animals. However, around 2,000 years ago, it became confined to the small island state of Tasmania, which is why it became known as the Tassie Tiger. TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS CONFIRM THEY ARE STILL ALIVE (Thylacine) Blazing Wildlife 85 subscribers Subscribe 587 47K views 3 years ago TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS PROVE THEIR EXISTENCE. I tried to explain it to people for years but couldn't. I have also looked at the situational geography. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. The species was declared extinct in 1986. While it was also out during the day, it was mostly nocturnal and usually hunted at night, in pairs or alone. It had a very long thin tail that drooped down then lifted up towards the end. The time was 11.30am. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. ", "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. 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. By this time our car was but a few feet from the animal which just stood there staring at our vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights' glare. ", Source:https://www.ski.com.au/xf/threads/thylacines-on-the-mainland.5777/, "He also reported that a friend, Jan, told him that many years ago she had watched for ten minutes, illuminated in the headlights, a pair of striped thylacines licking and preening each other on the roadside in the Snowy Mountains, in southern NSW. We were driving along the road when a animal stepped out in front of use further down the highway. The next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. Both times it was too difficult to see it properly, because it was travelling so quickly. Most recently, in July, a man just south of Hobart reported seeing a footprint that seemed to match that of the Tasmanian tiger. They said there have been sightings in the Pilliga in the past. (1977). 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. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. More like a retching possum and it was surprisingly loud. An anonymous report made to REPAD by a male witness: "I was driving home from work along Freemans drive about 3km from Freeman's waterhole at approx. The animal had apparently appeared from out of nearby bush to stand under the street light. Fabiola was driving and so Michael was able to examine the animal closely from only 2 metres away and observed that it was 60 to 70 cm high and 1.3m long, the length of the body quite long when compared to its height. 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. , made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5. With the bag over the animals head they were able to safely release it back into the wild. while I was speechless at what I saw. (2022). The animal quickly vanished off the road into the corner of the Katoomba Water Catchment property, a dense bushland-covered region that follows the highway to the outskirts of Katoomba. The Thylacine - Its History and Sightings. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. Last February, two visitors claimed an animal with a "stiff tail and striped back" wandered in front of their car at Corinna in the island's west. (2013). *It's body was longer & out of proportion than all other animals. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, whichwas stiff with no point. A thylacine eating a rabbit on the side of a road. ", "In March 1982, a camper sighted a thylacine-like animal drinking from a creek in the Grose valleyThe camper described the animal he saw as being two metres long, with greyish body fur {coloration can vary} displaying about a dozen blackish stripes extending down the body. But the tinny-sipping South Australian Tassie tiger hunter, who filmed the clip wandering around northern Tasmanian bushland, was quickly shutdown, with the museum there ruling the photos were likely of a pademelon. Over the last few years, my Husband and I have both seen what we believe to be a Thylacine. The Campbelltown-Ingleburn News of the day quoted the hunter about his warnings about approaching the tiger "otherwise someone is going to finish up inside the animal's stomach." Three years later the last of its kind in captivity, named Benjamin, died a lonesome death in the Hobart Zoo. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. It had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. 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. It was covered in short sandy fur, had a long thin head and face with upright ears. Daily Telegraph (Australia), 19 November, p. 3. . Researchers are looking for the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland after potential sightings suggest the species might not be extinct. In December 2006 at 9.30 a.m. she again saw the same animal with three young cubs chasing and playing together on the road. Before colonisation, the Thylacine was not confined only to Tasmania. Ive been a vet nurse for 20 years. . The creature, said Shannon, remained there for perhaps 2 to 5 minutes as they stood observing it. 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. "On the morning of Thursday 24th March 1983, I received a phone call from Mr John Turner of Shipley, located on the west side of Blackheath close to the Kanimbla Valley cliffs. ", "Meanwhile, in the Hartley Valley below Mt York, a striped-bodied dog-like creature was reported seen attacking sheep on more than one occasion about this same time. Footage of the last Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Australia, from 1933. Source: Gilroy, Rex. ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. "26th January 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; at around 6 a.m. (Australia Day) Russel was driving from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads. I was sitting there going "what was it?". We are still seeking to verify more recent sightings. Authorities say there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. It was long in the flank, like a horse. "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. 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. 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. Its ears were not as big as a roo or a fox. 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. The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. 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. Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. I recognised them to be those of an undoubted Thylacine. Anonymous. Denis Millar, 49, of North Tumbulgum near the NSW-Queensland border, said yesterday he saw the mysterious animal on a neighbour's property. I saw it dash up a 4ft embankment into scrub, a greyish-furred, black body-striped animal. log in. These were mostly reported by motorists.". the Tasmanian tiger is not extinct but still roams Australia, . "I met a bloke yesterday who said he had seen one in the Hunter Valley in NSW. 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. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. It would have been great if I had been able to get even one photo of the creature.", "I was driving out west of nsw 60 km west of Balranald when I came upon a tassie tiger at 2am. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. 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.". "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. Finally, he hit upon the idea of constructing a trap for the creature in the form of a chicken-wire cage. ", "1995, The Coast Road, between Byron Bay and Lennox Heads; Kate Mathews was driving south with a friend through the heathland when they saw a dog-like animal running towards them along the grassy verge. In addition to these relentless attempts to control their numbers, several other factors drove the Tasmanian tiger to its eventual extinction. The mature thylacine ranged from 100 to 130 cm long, with a tail of around 50 . "In 1978, he was 7 or 8 at at the time and lived on a farm near Nundle NSW. It must be the boofiest pademelon head around, he says. It stood half a metre tall and was about 1 metre in length from nose tip to tail. It was observed from head on and it loped off, almost kangaroo-like with a very unusual movement. He realised that only one species could answer the dog-like physical appearance of this strange animal, and that was a Tasmanian Tiger. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. 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." The animal had been walking across the highway [usually quiet on a weeknight] when we saw it, forcing the woman to brake quickly. 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". Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. 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. Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. It had a long, cat-like tail and features reminiscent of a fox or wolf. He was sure that it definitely was not a fox or a dog, that its snout was not pointed like a fox and that it had distinctive rounded ears. Now extinct, a Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) is seen in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1933. Michael noticed that it had a distinct waddle of the back legs as it walked and he watched it turn away from him and saw that it had a white band at the end of the tail with a black tip. The creature then ran down the side of a house into scrub. . The elderly chaps sighting was about ten years ago in the same area, closer to dawn, about 6am.". Apart from its size, it was greyhound-like in appearance with narrowing flanks, its body sloping downward to a long thin tail, which followed the slope of the back and seemed kangaroo-like in that it did not appear to wag. Since Benjamin died on September 7, 1936, there has been no official sighting of a Tasmanian tiger. He was certain that it was not a cat, fox or dog. It had stripes and blue eyes, and I now realise when I look back that it was a thylacine I reckon. 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That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. ", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, "1992 Ewingsdale; Tony saw a creature on a bright and sunny mid-morning 50 metres away that he was at a total loss to identify. Before it vanished off the roadside I noticed its length, about 5ft, the body stripes were blackish and ran from the middle of the back to the rump of the tail upon reddish-brown coloured body fur.". Was it a tiger? The following day I showed the impressions to Phil Whittaker. Locals even today believe that Thylacines spotted near the mountain are coming from there. 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. 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