The Tasmanian tiger is still extinct. . ", "2003, Upper Main Arm; bush regenerator Mark had a close observation of a thylacine-like animal at midday and observed its striped back and stiff tail as it stood near the roadside. He said other members of his family has seen the same animal on separate occasions, as had neighbours. Our sighting lasted only seconds before the animal vanished into roadside bushes, said Darryl.". The animal was in the headlights of my car eating road kill in the middle of a road and then bolted into thick scrub. In an attempt to curb their population, bounty schemes began to be established, with both private companies and the Tasmanian government offering money in exchange for dead Thylacines by 1830. It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from MegalongValley near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. "16th January 2006, Monday, 3.30 am, Andersons Hill, Mullumbimby; Michael and Fabiola where returning home along Gulgun Road adjacent Everrits Creek, 400m north of the Mullumbimby intersection and the Uncle Toms Pies service station, when they observed a strange animal coming towards them along the eastern side of the road. I have not seen one like this before. It ran almost 1ft off the ground on all fours. 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. 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. 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 Winter of 2022 will be remembered by Heather and I for the number of Blue Mountains bushland sightings of of Thylacines at least a dozen. maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. ", Source:https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_casts.html, "If it was what I believe it was, this was not to be my only encounter with a creature of this description, for on Christmas Eve 1983, I was walking in bush near Govetts Leap with my son, David and his wife Kay in afternoon light, when we all spotted the same type of animal moving through bushes. Roger Hardy also informed me that in the Mount Mondilla area are deep gorges. 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 . While some of these tracks were indistinct amid small twig and leaf fragments, two were not, and I cast these. It was observed from head on and it loped off, almost kangaroo-like with a very unusual movement. It was not a dog. It was definitely not a dog. "In February 1977, in the Kanimbla Valley north of Megalong, Mr Kevin Cummings was driving out of the valley one day when, as his vehicle passed a tall embankment, he saw ahead of him, what he immediately recognised to be a Thylacine, run across the dirt road he was on and up the embankment. "There's a lot more chronic searching these days with cameras and wildlife traps for other animals. 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. Source:Hunt, Elle. The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. Then I screamed you know let it go and then it just ran off. It had a long thin straight tail, short sandy brown fur, a greyhound look to it and an odd gait. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 11(3): 13-30. ", "1999, Federal; Graham and Rosalind had a close view of a strange animal when driving between Whian Road and Bates Road near the old Dip when the headlights illuminated it. The Tasmanian tiger or 'thylacine' The thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. After 5 minutes I drove slowly towards it and at about 10 m in front of my car it suddenly pushed with its hind legs and with great power it ran off the road into the vegetation on all four legs. ", "September, 2005, 7am, Billinudgel Nature Reserve; on the trail that runs parallel to the beach several hundred metres north of the central trail entrance into the reserve. It had a long thin pointed tail, which pointed down, almost the length of the body. Source:Anonymous. 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. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particularroute. 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. Im dead-set sure the damn thing was not a fox, dingo or dog and Im positive about the zebra-like stripes down the back. (2021). In 1938, a Thylacine was said to be shot at Mawbanna. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, whichwas stiff with no point. 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. I made all the observations with great care, hoping to discuss the animal with my colleagues, but they unfortunately had been collecting on the opposite side of the road, and had not seen it. It was dog-sized but not thin like a greyhound. (1997). Againno familiar dog body language. 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. "The same type of animal was seen killing a sheep in Megalong Valley in January 1987. The encounter lasted in full no more than 15 seconds. It looked like a cross between a dog and a kangaroo. "In September, 1983, I led a search into this region [i.e. Of course, this is primarily due to humans taking over the world. ", 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. ", "15th January 2003, 9.30 am, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Mailman Peter drove right up to a strange looking animal standing on an earth bank on the southern section of Stock Route Road, just behind Billinudgel. He reported I can say that what I saw did not look like anything I have witnessed before. And [inaudible], and I still don't have an answer. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. He said the animal, which he claimed could not be confused with a dog, was the size of a fox, with the head of a kangaroo and had a thick striped tail which tapered at the end. Another report given to Samantha came from a woman called Gail who worked at Durrumbul preschool and who had seen one crawl from beneath the preschool building and walk in a hopping way. The Tasmanian Tiger was in fact a marsupial rather than a big cat, and its proper name is the thylacine. ", "February 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Rayleen saw a thylacine-like animal crossing the road. *Its colouring was a deep outback red. ", 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. ", Source: Gilroy, Rex. Kim Falconer wrote I heard a loud sound like a cross between a guttural possum noise and a large dog retching. It walked, trotted and loped. At first I thought that it was a swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) that are common in this locality. She seemed extremely curious-cautious. We were within yards of it when it moved off the road into the scrub with a loping cat-like run. ", "1997, Mt Warning; Heidi described her brothers observation of a thylacine. The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. ", "8th March 2008, Frazer drive, Tweed Heads; Joel contacted me at the ABC Radio station and stated I was travelling on Frazer drive in Tweed Heads, near the Tweed Heights turn off, at 11.40 p.m. and saw this creature lopping across the road with its tail straight out behind it. 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. I then looked in the rearview mirrow to see the Landcruiser doing the same, confirming to me that what ever I saw was wierd!. He only saw the Thylacine twice during the same week, approximately 3 years after he began working in those ranges. ", 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. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. In 1978 one friday I had done a days work, come home packed the car, driven 60 km into the Barringtons, set up camp, drank 2 cans of beer, it was on the darker side of dusk when i went to have a close look at a tree just out side the head light beam of my car when I heard a noise, I turned my head and about 4 feet (1.3 m) from me in the light beam of my car a tasie tiger walked past me.". ", "in February 1984 we organised another expedition to this remote area with Rod Gurney and Robert Ashworth, and found more Thylacine paw prints in the swamp mud. ", "November 2005, 9 pm, Coorabell; Samantha saw a lion coloured creature with kangaroo like back legs hop into the bush on the Coorabell Federal Road. 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. Mr Waters says the head is rather broad for a pademelon. It was trotting quickly with a stiff legged gait. ", "A friend, Haley, told them that around about 1996 she had observed a large cat-like creature with a plain coloured body and a banded furred tail leap across Coopers Creek behind Durrumbul north of Mullumbimby in northeastern NSW. However, now she felt reluctant to go for walks on the road. My mother in the passenger seat (who grew up in B/Hill) could only splutter "what is that?!" Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itself, somewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush, choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drive, It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from Megalong. It's also. (p. 205), Source:Clark, Jerome. 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. ["Two animals of the hyena kind"]. They ranged in size from 100-130cm in length and 50-65cm in height, and. In Tasmania, the Thylacine was most predominant along the north and east coast, and in the midland plains region. 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. 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. 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. It was probably heading for the nearby Grose Valley, he said.". The time was 3am. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? 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. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub and situated at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. The front paw was lifted up near the snout. Join 1.7 Million Subscribers Max was with his father on the trip. "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. Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. The stone missed its mark and the animal, looking up, saw the people and ran at great speed up the slope with a very unusual gait. Sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. We came to the Pilliga. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". The animal then snarled at us showing long pointed teeth, before disappearing into long grass. 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. It was really quick; one second it was there in front of me, next second it was way in the distance. On hearing from Mr Heath of some of the Thylacine sightings he had been told about, an academic at a Queensland . "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. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. The creature had escaped into scrubland which extends eastward to a gully which drops down into the Grose Valley-where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported by campers and bushwalkers to the present day. At least eight sightings of Tasmanian tigers have been reported recently, reviving speculation the mammal is not extinct, as scientists insist. The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. It had a very unusual manner of walking quite unlike a dog. At the time, none of my friends believed me and so I took it no further, she said. 9:20pm Mar 2, 2022 NOW Tasmanian tiger could be de-extinct through major scientific breakthrough Northern NSW devastated as flood crisis continues Perth man dies after falling from ute tray on highway near Byford Flooding emergency continues in WA Prime Minister 'taking advice' about new COVID strain detected in Victoria Then a car passed it and the animal ran off into the bush from where it had emerged.". north of Grose Valley] accompanied by expert bushmen Rod Gerney and Robert Ashworth and several assistants in a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles.. Earlier last year, on the road between Ballina and Eltham, just after the Alstonville turnoff, dad and my brother saw something similar. "2008, Upper Wilsons Creek; Tracey emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe her sighting. "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. It walked, going from tree to tree, looking up into the trees. 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. Sam said that one night in June 1980 about 10.30pm, as he and his wife were driving up their dirt road toward their farmhouse, their headlights caught three Alsatian dog-size animals, yellowish-brown furred, with vertical black body stripes along their bodies, feeding upon a wallaby they had apparently just killed on the roadside. The impression was healthy-lean. Some years later he saw it again at the same time and place & then his wife saw it in similar circumstances near their house. In November 1993, during a holiday in northern Queensland, the author met a man who witnessed a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) on Cape York Peninsular. ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. CNN . The Guardian (Australia), Thursday 1 December. 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. ", "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. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. 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. Western Australian Naturalist 10(7): 171-172. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. It was an extraordinary experience, being so close to this animal. (1811). Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. We live in Upper Wilsons Creek and our property backs onto Mt Jerusalem National Park. He noticed the ears were rounded and that it stood about 1/2m high, its mouth was open. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extendedhalf way down the side of the body. She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. "In 1980 whilst hiking in the coolomon plain area, I entered a narrow section of open plain near the Coinbill turnoff on the Long Plain Road. The largest remnant bushland in western NSW. It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. I have also looked at the situational geography. However, reports of thylacine sightings continue. The animal was a tan-caramel color with pronounced dark stripes from shoulders to rump and had a ridged "kangaroo like" tail. Source: Gilroy, Rex. This odd creature obviously seemed to reside in the valley we had found it in and the co-ordinates I gave specified exactly how to find it, yet they couldn't give a damn! Suddenly, at 5am he was woken by sounds coming from the direction of the cage, situated at the far end of his property on the edge of thick bushland. He thought it couldn't be true, Christian said of his dad, who he described as your typical Australian bushy. The wolf-like thylacine . The animal was growling aggressively at this time. ", Source:http://acro-research.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/possible-thylacine-or-big-cat-sighting.html?m=1, "2000, Mahers Lane, Terranora; Don saw a long thin dog-like animal with stripes across its back & the base of its long thin tail in the evening as he drove down the road from his home through farmland. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. It then ran off under a barb wire fence to disappear into the regrowth vegetation.". What were probably the same pair were seen by Winmalee residents moving about in scrub behind St Columba's College. Ive shot and skinned roos and foxes before so I have had experience with them up in Armidale. ", "One lady in particular swears she saw one near a supermarket in Brighton Le Sands N.S.W. It looked like a female lion, but it had stripes on the flank and stripes on the tail. 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. 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. Most recently, in July, a man just south of Hobart reported seeing a footprint that seemed to match that of the Tasmanian tiger. They were seen shortly after by a motorist driving on Hawkesbury Road through Winmalee about 9pm, when they crossed the road to be caught in his headlights.". (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. Then I noticed that the fore and hind legs were of the same size and that it did not have the usual colours of a swamp wallaby such as the ginger head fur, pale face stripe, black forepaws or black tail. It must be the boofiest pademelon head around, he says. To say I was astonished would be an understatement. The animal was not concerned and it headed towards a large fig tree where friends let their chooks out most days. Was dog like but had a different stance ie hind quarter high, it had a size between a fox and a dingo. It was greyhound-like, the head was like that of a kangaroo, particularly because of its kangaroo-like ears that stood straight up, the ribs were tucked up and the rump was uplifted. They weighed 33 to 66 lbs. In 1961, a creature killed at Sandy Cape in Queensland was identified tentatively as a Tasmanian tiger. Mr George Skinner, a maintenance painter who was working at Jenolan Caves back in the early 1980s, once told this author that he was driving home from work around 5pm one evening in March 1982. The time was around midnight as they left the Country Club road into Cook Road, then turned into Banksia Road on their way home. She had a springy-rocking horse gait, moving quickly then holding very still, lifting her head. It was small in size, light golden coloured with a very long snout and rounded ears, a long pointy tail, and stripes on its back. 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.". It displayed no fear and was the gentlest sweetest creature I have ever seen. There were no visible markings on the body, although he thought the rump was perhaps darker than the rest of the animal, which had a tan colouring. It had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. He also noticed the body tended to slope downwards and the long tail followed the slope of the back. He described it as the size of a greyhound with distinctive brown stripes on its back He saw it eating some meat by the side of the road and got a a good look at it before it ran off. A senior veterinarian and former RSPCA president is quoted in the video as saying there is a 70 to 80 per cent chance the animal is a thylacine. It was travelling at an incredible speed. It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. In 1957, a specimen was reportedly spotted from a helicopter. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. (2013). 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