It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. It stood on its back legs when it saw me and stared. Clive said that there were no foxes up there in the Whian Whian Range. 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. Source:https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm. ", "During April 1983 such an animal was reported making raids on a Kanimbla Valley farm.". [The Thylacine was surely a male, females beingmore thickset - RG]. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. They said that the depth of impression of the tracks suggested an animal of at least 75 lb weight. They said when they saw it, they both said "what was that", because it looked different to anything they had seen before. "7th January 2006, Saturday, 8.30 am, Drake; Greg worked at the Tenterfield Bowling Club on Friday night and he headed home at 7.45am Saturday morning. Hunting, the introduction of dogs and the loss of habitat were to blame for its demise. I wish Id gone back to sit, wait and watch just to cure my curiosity. The document includes detailed accounts of alleged close encounters with the mysterious predator across the northern and western regions of the state. I believed that its hunched back was due to the fact that it was bent over sniffing the ground. Three years later the last of its kind in captivity, named Benjamin, died a lonesome death in the Hobart Zoo. It continued to sniff the dirt road unconcerned by the presence of my vehicle. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. 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. 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. I know that because I have seen two," he writes. There had been recent sightings claims by campers and others. ", "During September 1983, I organised a major search for evidence of living Thylacines in the Wollongambie Wilderness, east of Lithgow. The wolf-like thylacine . READ MORE: What can prove Tassie tigers are alive. The tail was thickly furred. So we see lots of normal Australian little animals. 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. There was white around the muzzle and black around the ears. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. 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.". 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. It measured 14.3 cm in length by 3c m width.". ", "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. It then ran across the road as I pulled up. 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. Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, which, was stiff with no point. Had it fou, region, keeping to the water catchment scrub into, seen in? Its body fur was a mousy-brown colour with greyish stripes extending barrel-wise along the body. I have no doubt that these animals are living somewhere out there in the Glenbrook National Park, from where they enter Glenbrook townships fringes at times in search of food, he said, in an interview with me in 1985. The following forum post was made on 17 February, 2007. 2023 Aston Martin DBS 770 Ultimate revealed, The text message that saw young Melbourne couple lose $100,000. 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. Rex Gilroy, during an expedition north of the Grose Valley: "We returned to the swamp last February, and found more evidence. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particularroute. , made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. 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.". It looked just like that". Most recently, in July, a man just south of Hobart reported seeing a footprint that seemed to match that of the Tasmanian tiger. As our vehicle came closer they left their prey to dash into roadside scrub. The creature looked like a dog-possum-bird-kangaroo, but was none of these. That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. It was covered with tawny short hair with dark stripes across the back and its gait was noticeably unusual. 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. Steve mentioned to Pete that he and his family have seen thylacines on his farm on occasions. ", "2005, New Brighton; Gary and Sharmaine observed a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump. According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a big Labrador dog, moving with a slinkyloping movement, somewhat like a cat. ", "1995, Coopers Lane, Main Arm; Hayley observed a golden-fawn animal with a striped tail. He thought it couldn't be true, Christian said of his dad, who he described as your typical Australian bushy. 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. In 2018, three cyclists said they witnessed a thylacine crossing the road in front of them. Trailing a Tiger. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5-14. My brother was asleep in the back. After looking at the cars headlights, it suddenly ran off into the bush.". Join 1.7 Million Subscribers Feral predator-free areas are being established to save a range of endangered marsupials. of a creature he believed to be a Tasmanian tiger. It gave a strange coughing bark-like call and bounded away. A friend, Eric, told them that he had seen the same kind of animal cross the road in front of his car near Wooyung and although he applied the breaks he hit the animal. 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. We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. "Sunday 22nd June, 3.00 p.m. 2008, Mooball; Scott Green, editor of the Weekly News, while out riding his bicycle along Wooyung Road towards Mooball, approaching the old railway bridge, spotted what he believes was a thylacine. 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. He immediately noticed that it had an unusual shuffling walk with the rear of the body sloping backwards & thought that it had a dislocated hip, which he had observed on an injured dog previously. This is the only report of a mother and its young.". A fuller account of his sighting can be found on his website: "On Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15 pm, a female companion and I were driving along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath toward Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. ", "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. This animal had walked around the edge of before drinking, then retraced its steps back towards the gully. Generally, although dog-like, it was not Canid, because of the structure of the hind part of the body. 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. He was certain that it was not a cat, fox or dog. . Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. Its body fur was a greyish-brown colour and the body stripes, a blackish-brown colour, when first observed, ran from the middle of the back onto the tail rump. Published January 11, 2023. ", "15th February 2006, Hastings Point; Rose described a strange dog-like animal that she saw while driving to work in the morning. Another search of the farm and its surrounds failed to turn up anything new, and the creature did not return.". It's been more than 80 years since the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is believed to have gone extinct, but an enduring belief remains that the large carnivore still roams the state. Grabbing his camera Kevin leapt from his car and, as he said later, tore up the embankment after it! These extended from about the mid-back onto the tail rump. It reminded them of a Fossa or a civet and definitely was not a fox, dog or cat. (Image credit: National Film and . The reported sightings are contained in a document from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE). The next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. "On the 25th January 1982, about 10pm, Mr Darryl Morris and his wife Carrol were driving to Mount Riverview. We can't state an exact date but it seems that the dodo only died-off at the end of 17th century. It never stopped and kept a constant pace. Despite the dog-like animal, native to Australia seemingly disappearing all those years ago, there have been a number of sightings of the animal over recent years. 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. From Mount Gambier or Tantanoola to the Coorong, South Australia is also a good place to find them. They have been a source of intrigue since the last known Tasmanian tiger died in a Hobart zoo in 1936. She then saw it run as fast as it could down the street towards the cane fields. Both were of a buff colour with distinctively rounded ears, hunched backs and remarkably long thin straight tails. Its body was sloped and the tail followed the slope. * Its head was weird shaped with a long jaw/snout. We had all agreed that it was too large for a feral cat, and too odd in shape as well, and that was certainly true in a number of respects. They were somewhat smaller than a German Sheppard dog, much larger than a fox and one individual was smaller and was standing in front of the larger animal. I was thinking how cool it was that I'd saved a little pademelon from being eaten by something. She said she saw a mutant dog. He only saw the Thylacine twice during the same week, approximately 3 years after he began working in those ranges. The tail went downward toward the ground, said John. A thylacine eating a rabbit on the side of a road. This poor pooch learnt that lesson the hard way in a hilarious mishap. "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. The family set steel traps to catch rabbits/hares that were pests in the area. Other residents in the area, however, did not share this explanation. The tiger tracks were found in a hanging swamp area which was part of a rain forest on the south side of the mountain. ", "During 1968 an old man told locals around Winmalee north of Springwood, that he had seen two Thylacines emerge together from a gully thereabouts that leads into the Grose Valley. Its fur was very short, about 15 mm long, of a greyish to light brown colour and was not at all mangy. "In September 1999, Mr Phil Smith and his wife Kassi were driving from the west on the Great Western Highway at 60 to 70 km an hour, slowing down as they approached a fruit shop at Linden on the left-hand side of the road. ", "One lady in particular swears she saw one near a supermarket in Brighton Le Sands N.S.W. Thylacine winter. ", "The Minto Monster was back in the news again in 1973 when claims that a mysterious creature had been 'terrorising' East Minto residents with its blood curdling screams. (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. Century-old footage of the last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity has been brought to life by colourisation, offering a tantalising glimpse of the now-extinct creature. 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. Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp, but sightings made by people on the western side of the Blue Mountains included the finding, on Sunday 31st July 2022 in the soil of a Newnes fire-trail of a paw and heel by me. ", "We were sitting around a campfire for a while, then climbed into our sleeping bags about 10.30pm as the fire turned to embers. The wild population of the large carnivorous . 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. the Tasmanian tiger is not extinct but still roams Australia, . Two adults and a juvenile. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. It walked, trotted and loped. The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. She had a springy-rocking horse gait, moving quickly then holding very still, lifting her head. The time was 3am. 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. ", "One night during June 1984 Mr Cedrick Mansley was driving on the Jenolan Caves Road, when a striped-bodied animal ran across the road ahead of his vehicle, clearly visible in the glare of the headlights. "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. I have also looked at the situational geography. It had short fur, very stiff, thick at the base (a long broom handle) and it didnt act like a dogs tail. From a17ab7a789aa20e5c49f7f9de9dca94c364755b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: BOB603049648 603049648@qq.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:48:33 +0800 Subject: [PATCH . What I am certain is it wasn't is a Dog, Cat, Fox, Kangaroo. [a pack of thylacine-like animals seen on the Vic/NSW border in 1977]. Abel Tasman's party recorded seeing footprints of "wild beasts having claws like a tiger" in Tasmania in 1642. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. Neil Waters released a video last week teasing fans about the photos which he claimed were proof the extinct animals were still alive. "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. They might not be extinct after all | by Iselin Aspen | Creatures | Medium Write Sign up Sign In 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. ", I was past Howes Valley near Howes Mountain, on a stretch of winding road. "Further west beyond Blackheath lies the town of Mount Victoria, on the western edge of the Blue Mountains. 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. "2008, Upper Wilsons Creek; Tracey emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe her sighting. It was the size of a small dingo but with an elongated, slim body and the hind quarters was more prominent. Sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. 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. It must be the boofiest pademelon head around, he says. I thought it looked a silver colour but it was hard to tell because it was raining.", "11th April 2006, 12.30 a.m. Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Ron was driving west towards the highway and saw what looked like a thylacine as it walked along the northern side of the road. Australia Wildlife Conservancy says there are only 800 numbats left in the wild, and none have been seen in NSW for more than 100 years. ", 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. "At 10.15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 1972, a friend and I were driving along thee Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath towards Katoomba in the NSW Blue Mountains. 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. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. The last thylacine, the official name of the Tasmanian tiger that was the Australian island's apex predator, died in a zoo in Hobart in 1936. The animal was a tan-caramel color with pronounced dark stripes from shoulders to rump and had a ridged "kangaroo like" tail. 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. ", 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. Researchers are looking for the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland after potential sightings suggest the species might not be extinct. 2024 Mercedes-Benz EQG EV spied inside and out, 2023 Mazda BT-50 price and specs: More expensive, up-spec manuals axed, 2023 Hyundai Kona hybrid, petrol detailed ahead of mid-year Australian launch, Virgin Australia flight attendants top tips for nervous travellers and the seats they need to book. (1985). (2017). CNN . 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. The film was recently colorized by Composite Films in Paris. Source:Gilroy, Rex. His first experience took place in July 1982 when he saw one standing beneath a street light at 5.45am, as he was walking up a road. These were of a chocolat, and not very obvious. Then I screamed you know let it go and then it just ran off. ", "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. *It had strong powerful hind legs*smaller front legs*A long stiff tail that pointed straight out. I ran outside to find my cat facing off with a dog-like creature 4 times its size. Denis Millar, 49, of North Tumbulgum near the NSW-Queensland border, said yesterday he saw the mysterious animal on a neighbour's property. The road is long and straight. 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. I write about freedom, history, nature, hypocrisy and anything that tickles my mind. By Cameron Baud and Bryce Luff / VIC News. It was covered with short golden-fawn fur with black shadowy marks on the fur tips across the rump like vague bands. I was driving down Bruce Road at Glenbrook, when at a spot 20 yards from the location of my previous [January 1983] sighting, I saw either the same animal or another, eating some small animal, perhaps a possum, on the roadside. Then, the next morning, 9/3/08 at approximately 6.40 a.m., as I was travelling to Murwillumbah on the Terranora road, about 1.5 km from the Bilambil turn off were the road begins to decline, I saw it again. He described it to us as a short greyish-furred animal, with narrow flanks and a drooping, long thin tail. Both animals disappeared within seconds into the rainforest.". Although. 13 May 1930 - Last thylacine killed in the wild. later, one of the men spotted a striped dog-like animal standing near the camp in the dim glow of the dying campfire. We live in Upper Wilsons Creek and our property backs onto Mt Jerusalem National Park. Canton, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. In all cases I have clearly cited the source. "(The department) occasionally receives reports of thylacine sightings," the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said in a statement. The father and a neighbour got a hassion bag and threw it over the animal. Its snout was narrow and pointed, the eyes appeared sloping backwards, the ears were tall and rounded and it had a long neck. Like most marsupials, the female had a pouch hence the scientific name Thylacinus Cynocephalus meaning dog-headed pouched-dog. (2017). 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). 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. It came from the left hand side up the slope, crossed the road & then leapt up the bank. , who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. Its eyes were pale green reflecting in our weak head torches. 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. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. Pam noticed what looked like pale stripes across the back. "We live on a sugar cane farm close to Murwillumbah in North Eastern NSW. The mature thylacine ranged from 100 to 130 cm long, with a tail of around 50 . I thought it was a cat at first but as I approached, it didnt scurry as a cat would. The tapered tail and we could see the faint stripes. Numbats are closely related to the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. 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