Another report, filed by a farmer in a cycling group, claims to have seen a "large cat-like creature" from a distance on the Lyell Highway. In both cases the animals had brownish body fur and dark body stripes, and looked exactly like photos of the Thylacine in books". At first she thought that it was a wallaby. The color of this animal was light in appearance & there were no stripes. ", "In 1975, one Springwood farmer reported attacks on his fowlyard by a large striped, dog-like animal, and almost shot the creature one day as it escaped over a fence with a hen in its mouth.". I really did not think about it too much until about 10 years later when I saw pictures of the strange animal I encountered that day. She stated No stripes, but a distinctly wild animal, reddish brown short hair, above knee-high. In 1961, a creature killed at Sandy Cape in Queensland was identified tentatively as a Tasmanian tiger. Like most marsupials, the female had a pouch hence the scientific name. Suddenly a striped-bodied dog-like animal strode across the track just ahead of them then ran off out of sight. The following day I showed the impressions to Phil Whittaker. Dr. S. J. Paramanov saw a thylacine at 11am along theBourke-Wanaaring Road, while collecting insects close to the road (Paramanov, 1968). ", "The Wollangambe Wilderness is a truly wild and remote region, situated north of the Grose Valley and north of the Bell-Bilpin Road. The highly anticipated photos of a living Tasmania tiger family have been released and the man who captured them says hes absolutely confident at least one is a thylacine. It was early morning around 5.30 to 6.00 a.m. when she heard a commotion outside the house as if a dog was fighting with our cats. 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 tail went downward toward the ground, said John. I could tell by its fur. 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. 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. Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp". I had my large driving lights on which clearly picked out an animal in front of my car about 2 kms north past the Lennox Head turnoff. ", "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. It's Rob here, I just had another sighting of a Tasmanian Tiger on Friday 24th Jan 2020. The only thing I found that approximately resembled the creature were pictures of marsupial cats, with the obvious difference that the creature I sighted had dark stripes, not white spots. She was able to get a good clear look at it because it was so close. Unexplained! Don't have an account? The video was posted on YouTube, and shared in the Sydney subreddit on social media site Reddit. For a few seconds it stood there in the glare of the headlights before running off the road into the dense scrub, towards nearby Grose Valley. Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. Christian, who now lives at Seal Rocks, remembers the experience as clear as day. It was 60 to 70 cm high and covered with short ginger-blond short hair with a narrow, small triangular-shaped head, a long thin neck, a long straight, thin tail that was as long as the animal. In the series of images, the one photo Mr Waters is confident is a tiger joey, experts believe is probably a Tasmanian pademelon joey. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". It stopped for a second as I approached, looked towards me, then quickly left the road into scrub. "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. It was not a fox, wild dog or Dingo or Quoll!!. 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? The animals face was like a dingo/dog/wolf but with rounder ears. We found wallaby tracks nearby and signs of a scuffle. 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. As he slowed down he observed it closely at an angle and was extremely surprised by the length of the tail which curved down and back up from the ground. Australias colonisation also heralded the erosion of the Thylacines habitat, the simultaneous extinction of its prey such as the Tasmanian native hen, and the introduction of wild dogs by European settlers. Both times it was too difficult to see it properly, because it was travelling so quickly. A Victoria farmer, Peter Groves, made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. It gave a strange coughing bark-like call and bounded away. The creature, said Shannon, remained there for perhaps 2 to 5 minutes as they stood observing it. This is the only report of a mother and its young.". Then a car passed it and the animal ran off into the bush from where it had emerged.". 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. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. Are we on the cusp of finally confirming that the thylacine a.k.a. 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. Various reported sightings may be the key to finding the thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger, formally known as Thylacinus cynocephalus or, the thylacine. It was dog-sized but not thin like a greyhound. Until recently, the last confirmed dodo sighting on its home island of Mauritius was made in 1662, but a 2003 estimate by David Roberts and Andrew Solow placed the extinction of the bird around 1690. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. Of course, this is primarily due to humans taking over the world. route. It was dog-like and about the size of a full-grown Alsatian, with fawn coloured body fur and a row of blackish body stripes extending barrel-wise from mid-back to tail-rump. The body language of this animal was not canine. The animal turned to look at the women in the car. It has me very interested.". It looked used to civilisation she said. I was already out of breath as I entered the trees, and soon realised the animal had given me the slip, so I walked back to the car. It moved on all four legs and had a tail similar to a wallaby. "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. 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.". There was white around the muzzle and black around the ears. 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. 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." What I am certain is it wasn't is a Dog, Cat, Fox, Kangaroo. This incident followed bad bushfires in the lower Blue Mountains-Grose Valley. Had it been left by a thylacine? A Tasmanian tiger enthusiast has claimed to have captured photographic evidence of the extinct animal and possible "proof" of breeding. When I saw the impressions I recognised them at once as those of a Thylacine, and immediately began making plaster casts of them. The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. The Tasmanian Tiger was a sandy brown-yellow and had dark stripes wrapped around its back. She jumped out of bed and made her way down to the pen, where she saw an animal that was striped like a tiger that bounded over the long grass. 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. "There's nothing there that's concrete," he told AAP of the newest reported sightings, adding it was "very unlikely" the animal is still out there. The last captive tiger died on September 7, 1936 at the since-defunct Beaumaris Zoo. He described it as "clear as a day". This species, also called Thylacine, was declared extinct after the last known specimen died in captivity, in an Australian zoo in 1936. ", "A week later, on Sunday 10th April we returned to Mr Turners property after he phoned us, to say that what might have been the same animal had returned the night before, leaving chew and scratch marks on his fowl house door, and more tracks around the area of the dam. All of these species went extinct millions of years ago except for the Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf, which persevered into modern times. (2013). It was covered with short golden-fawn fur with black shadowy marks on the fur tips across the rump like vague bands. Two Tasmanian tigers in captivity at the Hobart Zoo. I found fresh faeces that may be its (it was not obviously male) and have frozen a sample. ", "1997, Mt Warning; Heidi described her brothers observation of a thylacine. 01 of 10 Later, above the gully, during a detailed search for more evidence we came across tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, beside which were the smaller tracks of a young cub. She stated Im an artist and I paint native animals and the gait of this animal meant that it was a marsupial, not a dog or a cat. It was completely unconcerned by the presence of his car and he closely examined it for 5 minutes before it walked off. 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. Ah we were looking at the pademelons, there was maybe about six of them just grazing on this clearing and then to, ah out of nowhere, this animal just came and pounced on one of the pademelons and grabbed it around the neck and, and I just just took me by surprise. "(The department) occasionally receives reports of thylacine sightings," the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said in a statement. RELATED: 40 Funniest Wildlife Photos Ever. ", Source:http://www.windellama.com.au/wild/Wild_Windellama_May_2005.html. After telling our family one day, our daughter and son-in-law said they also believe they had seen the same animal crossing xxxxx Rd, in the same area one evening. I went back to England shortly afterwards but on my recent return to Australia the article by Samela Harris on the sightings of the thylacien and the resulting correspondence makes me wonder whether what we saw could have been a marsupial tiger or wolf. A Gold Coast resident has been left dumbfounded after receiving an abusive letter from a neighbour that appeared to threaten her dog. ", "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. 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.". "On Sunday 15th June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend,Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. But it was so fast, it passed by unscathed. Walkabout 34(12): 8. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. The creature looked like a dog-possum-bird-kangaroo, but was none of these. Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. It had a very long thin tail that drooped down then lifted up towards the end. The reserve water levels were down and it was where the water would normally be if the dam was full. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. The area was open paddock with a ridge-line that the animal was moving along. It was only when my other daughter said that her description of the creature sounded like a thylacine that she was able to definitely identify it from pictures that she found on the internet. The animal was so close that he almost hit it as it reached the other side of his vehicle. But not everyone is convinced. She had a springy-rocking horse gait, moving quickly then holding very still, lifting her head. Here during September 1970, a tiger was seen and accurately described by a Mr Jim Neal, who spotted it as it ran across the Great Western Highway on the southern side of town. Sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. 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. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. It ran almost 1ft off the ground on all fours. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? It seemed to be stationary for a second or two as it was down the end of a long stretch of road so I managed a pretty good look. 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. 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. My brothers wife and I were in the front. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. But, he adds, "society will not protect an animal it thinks is extinct. With all due respect I disagree with Nick Mooneys opinion and thats fine - thats perfectly OK - and he encourages me in his report to get as many opinions as I can because his is only one opinion, Mr Waters says in the new video. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. 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. His wife was the first of the family to observe the animal, 3 months before while taking their child to the bus stop down their one kilometre long driveway. It was 1ft tall by 3ft length from head to tail. We have seen this mystery animal at least twice now and in fact had assumed it was a wild dog and reported it to NPWS for dog baiting! It looked just like that". I did find a not too well-preserved long heel embedded in moist soil. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Tony & Suzette saw what looked like a thylacine. 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. It had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. *Its colouring was a deep outback red. *It had strong powerful hind legs*smaller front legs*A long stiff tail that pointed straight out. While some of these tracks were indistinct amid small twig and leaf fragments, two were not, and I cast these. It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. The hocks were pronounced and lowit rocked back on them when it loped away. 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