It was observed from head on and it loped off, almost kangaroo-like with a very unusual movement. Finally, he hit upon the idea of constructing a trap for the creature in the form of a chicken-wire cage. Rex Gilroy believes so. They never did see any sign of it again. It was covered in short sandy fur, had a long thin head and face with upright ears. Awareness for the status of the Tasmanian tiger was so low that after Benjamin died, Hobart Zoo expected they would soon receive a replacement, and the death of the last Tasmanian tiger wasnt even reported in the media. Then Donna saw that its head was too large, it was too bulky in the forequarters, and the body tapered off in the hind quarters, the exact opposite of the body of a wallaby. The wolf-like thylacine . ", 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. He described it to us as a short greyish-furred animal, with narrow flanks and a drooping, long thin tail. Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Thylacine, has been presumed extinct since 1936 . 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. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Tony & Suzette saw what looked like a thylacine. 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 next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. Sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. 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.". 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." ", "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. I was 2-3 metres from it for several minutes. There had been recent sightings claims by campers and others. "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. I looked for prints. Two km to the south-west of the Green Frog Caf & general store he and a friend saw in the car headlights an unusual animal cross the road 6 to 12 metres in front of them. The animal vanished off the highway into the darkness in seconds into roadside scrub. Both were of a buff colour with distinctively rounded ears, hunched backs and remarkably long thin straight tails. ", 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. My daughter did not know about thylacines before the sighting. "Mr John Stalling was a 28 years old bushman in June 1982, when he gave me three experiences he had with Thylacines in the Glenbrook area. Australasian Post, 31 January. She stated We both knew that this was neither dog nor fox. When explaining the incident later to family & friends she could best describe it as looking something like a Tasmanian tiger. The animals watched the approaching car for a few seconds and then raced off into the bush. They did not believe that it was a dog, dingo or a fox. (1977). 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]. 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. The animal, he said, was a good 6ft [1.83m] length from nose to tip of tail, and stood about 2ft off the ground on all fours. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". 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. ", "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. 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. As my lights were on the animal it bounced off into the bush unlike any dog I've ever seen. Share your thoughts in the comments below or vote in our poll above, To join the conversation, please The animal stood about 61cm off the. He recalled his father and other old hands from the Pokolbin area, saying there were two different types of native cat the spotted quoll and the rare striped tiger quoll. 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. "1970, Crabbes Creek; schoolteacher Mark was working on a banana farm during the school holidays and as they descended from a forested ridge top at the end of the day, the owners German Shepard dog began growling at something sheltering within an old, partly collapsed banana-packing shed overgrown with vines. It was covered with tawny short hair with dark stripes across the back and its gait was noticeably unusual. Therefore the tiger seen by Robyn Simon and Rebecca Jackson could only be a visitor to theKatoomba area, until it settles into a new habitat, perhaps with its mate if one is nearby, out on theNeck or back in Megalong Valley. 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. "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. Source: Lubbock, Adelaide. In November 2017, three investigators including Adrian Richardson, who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. A rough transcript of her report (1:32-3:09) is as follows: "I take people out into the rainforest with the night vision goggles, ummm, and we go looking for animals. With the bag over the animals head they were able to safely release it back into the wild. 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. I did report it at the time my husband saw it, to an on-line group or organisation. 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). All Rights Reserved. Theres no doubt in my mind it was a Thylacine, one without stripes (Tassie tigers were reported without stripes in the 1900s) Apparently they have up to a 40km range which they trek each month. And [inaudible], and I still don't have an answer. Abel Tasman's party recorded seeing footprints of "wild beasts having claws like a tiger" in Tasmania in 1642. Two weeks later Dennis finally saw it sitting on the roadside while driving down their road to pick up their child from the bus stop at 4 pm. Its buttocks were tapered toward the tail. 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.". Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. The animal then snarled at us showing long pointed teeth, before disappearing into long grass. *It's body was longer & out of proportion than all other animals. Later, back in Canberra, I came across an illustration of the Tasmanian Tiger, and immediately recognised it as the animal I had observed on my trip. . We can't state an exact date but it seems that the dodo only died-off at the end of 17th century. It ran off into the vegetation adjacent the road.". On hearing from Mr Heath of some of the Thylacine sightings he had been told about, an academic at a Queensland . The animal was going for a gully that stands on the eastern side of the highway.". We came to the Pilliga. A Gold Coast resident has been left dumbfounded after receiving an abusive letter from a neighbour that appeared to threaten her dog. 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. Footage of the last Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Australia, from 1933. It was just loping like a lion does with really solid legs., Ms. Bates said that she had been walking in the area for many years and had never seen anything out of the ordinary. ", "25th February 2006, Saturday night, 11 pm, Palm Avenue in Mullumbimby; Kali saw a strange animal running across the road. We then mentioned it in passing to the bus driver on the way back to the airport and he said there had been some sightings of thylacine-like animals in the area over the years that he had heard of. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. This is only to make it easier for the reader to access these reports, which would otherwise be spread over many websites and other mediums (e.g. Biologist and wildlife expert Nick Mooney has for years reviewed thylacine accounts and apparent footage and images. Christian, who now lives at Seal Rocks, remembers the experience as clear as day. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. Fortean Times 25: 36. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. Groves managed to pull out his mobile phone and snap a picture of the creature which he then uploaded to social media. 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. I could tell by its fur. I saw it dash up a 4ft embankment into scrub, a greyish-furred, black body-striped animal. ", "One lady in particular swears she saw one near a supermarket in Brighton Le Sands N.S.W. Its fur was very short, about 15 mm long, of a greyish to light brown colour and was not at all mangy. 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. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. She saw it for quite a while. He said when they stopped it ran out onto the road behind them and froze for a moment also looking at them before dashing off into the forest. He said the creature had at least 19 black body stripes, extending from mid-back to tail-rump and was about 1.52 metres long from nose to tail-tip. 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. As our vehicle came closer they left their prey to dash into roadside scrub. (2017). Since then, no conclusive evidence has emerged to suggest that Tasmanian tigers still exist in the wild, and the species was declared officially extinct in 1986, the Tasmanian Government's. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5-14. Locals even today believe that Thylacines spotted near the mountain are coming from there. It stood on its back legs when it saw me and stared. ", "The Wollangambe Wilderness is a truly wild and remote region, situated north of the Grose Valley and north of the Bell-Bilpin Road. 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. I thought it looked a silver colour but it was hard to tell because it was raining.", "5thMarch 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. (1985). "(The department) occasionally receives reports of thylacine sightings," the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said in a statement. I was driving south about 20 min into a 9 hr drive home to Melbourne when a 'thing' with the strangest walk/run burst from the scrub straight across the road, in front of me & a White landcruiser ute travelling the other way. The tail was thicker at the base than at the tip and was about 1ft in length. They include international dog and cat show judges, vets and wildlife experts, most of them choosing to stay anonymous. It was long in the flank, like a horse. Roger Hardy also informed me that in the Mount Mondilla area are deep gorges. ", "1997, Mt Warning; Heidi described her brothers observation of a thylacine. We were driving along the road when a animal stepped out in front of use further down the highway. ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. As we passed thick roadside scrub, an animal almost the size of a full grown Alsatian dog, with fawn-coloured body fur and a row of blackish body stripes, ran across the highway in front of the car. He thought it couldn't be true, Christian said of his dad, who he described as your typical Australian bushy. route. My brother was asleep in the back. Grabbing his camera Kevin leapt from his car and, as he said later, tore up the embankment after it! By this time the car was but a few metres from the animal, which just stood there staring at the vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights glare. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 27 March, p. 46. " My other children and I heard the strange noise, but did not go out to investigate. It had short fur, very stiff, thick at the base (a long broom handle) and it didnt act like a dogs tail. 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." 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. Its body was a bit chunkier, the legs shorter, the tail had nothing like the length of a cats and hung straight out, and the snout protruded out quite markedly from a head that seemed proportionally smaller than that of a cat. (2022). "The same type of animal was seen killing a sheep in Megalong Valley in January 1987. 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. Despite all official . It looked just like 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! Newcastle Herald, 8 March. 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. The tail was thickly furred. "2nd November 2006, 9 pm, Thursday, New Brighton; Rob was fishing at Casons Road, New Brighton, when they saw an unusual animal. Standing on the road, it stayed for about 40 seconds until Scott was within 40 m of it. "Rex claimed he saw a thylacine on Tuesday, February 22, 1972 at 10.15pm on the Great Western Highway, south of Blackheath. The snout was not longer than a greyhound and was more Alsatian-like. In the video above: Video shows 'Tasmanian tiger' sighting in Hobart, For more Lifestyle related news and videos check out Lifestyle >>. 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 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. ", His second experience occurred in January 1983, when from his bedroom window he saw what may have been the same animal seen by him the previous July, or another one, as it moved beneath a street light in the early hours of the morning. He passed it and stopped the car but it had disappeared into the bush by the time he looked back. It had a long, cat-like tail and features reminiscent of a fox or wolf. Peter had been involved in greyhound racing for many years and so was positive that the animal was neither a dog nor a fox and appeared to be a carnivorous marsupial.". He told Pete that early one morning recently while driving his tractor, he saw a pair of striped thylacines crossing his paddock. Rex Gilroy took plaster casts of tracks he claims were made by a thylacine: "He also claimed he found thylacine paw prints in January 2015, while walking his dog on a fire trail near Blackheath. Five vets all agree it looks like a four-legged animal and not a macropod that hops, Mr Waters says. 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. Pam noticed what looked like pale stripes across the back. Im totally convinced I witnessed a Tassie tiger on the coast road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park NSW. maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. This incident followed bad bushfires in the lower Blue Mountains-Grose Valley. Here we have a carnivore hanging out with two herbivores, can somebody please explain to me why this is occurring? The species was declared extinct in 1986. It had 10 to 12 very pale stripes across the rear portion of the body with slightly wider stripes on the back & narrower stripes on the rump. We were within yards of it when it moved off the road into the scrub with a loping cat-like run. In search of mountain tigers. Thylacine winter. Reports from other states and countries can be accessedhere. I know that because I have seen two," he writes. The last close sighting was about 6 months ago and it was right by our car on our forest drive. * Im not sure I saw stripes across its back, but its colouring across the top of its rear 1/4 was darker than the rest. In that article I described my 1972 night-time encounter in a car being driven by a woman who was driving me to my [then] North Katoomba home. 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