"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. "It won't be much longer because we're very close to getting irrefutable proof the animal is still here," he said. Neuroglia-The Alternative Model of the Brain, NGS, Sanger & PacBio sequencing in Antibody Drug Discovery, Avian influenza: common questions and answers regarding transmission to mammals, You Really Should Talk to Your Plants Especially If Youre a Woman, Biological Crop Steering the Next Step in Controlled Cultivation. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. There is a lot of bush and a lot of cover and I think it's living quite comfortably there. He described the specimen as funny looking with a big long tail and stumpy ears. The tail was thicker at the base than at the tip and was about 1ft in length. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". ", "20th August, 2008, Coast Road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park; David Hall emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe his sighting. The animals body fur, he noticed, was a gingery brown, with a large head. 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." Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? Source: Gilroy, Rex. We could not see stripes. Trailing a Tiger. 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. The animal turned to look at the women in the car. The back and the hind legs looked more like a cat, its tan-coloured thick fur had an orange tinge in the sunlight and it had dark stripes across its back. I was excited to hear that there have been several reported sightings of Tasmanian tigers in the recent years. It measured 14.3 cm in length by 3c m width.". The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable, it was an undoubted Thylacine. 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. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub and situated at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5-14. ", Johns third sighting of a tiger took place in March 1984 around 6.10am. They never did see any sign of it again. Roger Hardy also informed me that in the Mount Mondilla area are deep gorges. Since Benjamin died on September 7, 1936, there has been no official sighting of a Tasmanian tiger. Robyn was driving near the Club House just before entering Cliff Drive, where a two, roofed house stands amid pine trees, on the corner opposite the golf course and beside a, when in the headlights glare they both saw a Thylacine, According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a, mewhat like a cat. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. Rex Gilroy believes so. The encounter lasted in full no more than 15 seconds. "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. 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. Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. She said she saw a mutant dog. It had stripes that were not bold. A group of residents conducted an armed search of Myrtle Creek but found nothing. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". 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. I wish Id gone back to sit, wait and watch just to cure my curiosity. Anyone who has seen the earth around Broken Hill it was that colour. While some of these tracks were indistinct amid small twig and leaf fragments, two were not, and I cast these. Fortean Times 25: 36. There was no question about it, the animal I had seen was a Thylacine. There is no doubt in my mind that the animal was a living thylacine. Over the years we have kept the location of the swamp and gully a closely guarded secret, to give these marsupials an opportunity to increase their numbers, and keep away unwanted human interference. Early timber getters never entered this inaccessible area. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. He suggested that what I'd seen mighta been a thylacine.". My wife works at the Werribee zoo in Melbourne and it certainly wasnt like any of the cats they have there. "Since the 19th century, theres been claims of them living in the Jenolan range.". She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. The Tasmanian tiger or 'thylacine' The thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. Had it fou, region, keeping to the water catchment scrub into, seen in? Five vets all agree it looks like a four-legged animal and not a macropod that hops, Mr Waters says. (2017). Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. In 1938, a Thylacine was said to be shot at Mawbanna. It had a rigid tail. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. This animal had walked around the edge of before drinking, then retraced its steps back towards the gully. Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. He spotted moving along the cement wall on the side of the road. 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. What did I see:* It was the size of medium to large dog* It moved like NOTHING else I had ever seen before. 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. Christian Kopp had a second encounter with a thylacine (first: NSW.c1992.xx.xx) while out riding his motorbike. 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. The animal was a tan-caramel color with pronounced dark stripes from shoulders to rump and had a ridged "kangaroo like" tail. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. ", Source: Gilroy, Rex. Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp". Rex Gilroy believes so, https://web.archive.org/web/20210225014002/http://garyopit.com/64-thylacine-sightings/, https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_mainpage.html, The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW, http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html, http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_casts.html, Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts', https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops, https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. 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 continued to sniff the dirt road unconcerned by the presence of my vehicle. (1968). Ummm but then I started thinking about it you know, what was it that I saw? Long, distinctive stripes cover its back and tail, which is inflexible and could be dragged along the ground. It looked like a stretched-out greyhound, 30% longer in the body than a dog. 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.". Russel observed on two occasions in the same place, families of three very sleek thylacine-like animals with brown lion-like coloured fur, dark bands on the flanks, with long rigid tails held low to the ground, running through the bush. They decided that it could only be a Tasmanian tiger and phoned the national parks service to report the sighting and where most annoyed when they were not believed and told that they could not possibly have seen such an animal because it is extinct. (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. Now extinct, a Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) is seen in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1933. We found wallaby tracks nearby and signs of a scuffle. 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. It looked used to civilisation she said. 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. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 27 March, p. 46. " ", "February 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Rayleen saw a thylacine-like animal crossing the road. The tigers, or thylacines, were. I've never seen nothing like it again. ", Source:https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, Please consider purchasing or sharing my new Kindle eBook on the current biodiversity crisis, to help raise funds for this website: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09P8PQ8N2/, A free Kindle eReader app can be downloaded for PC and Mac users: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. ", "During April 1983 such an animal was reported making raids on a Kanimbla Valley farm.". Max was with his father on the trip. "In September, 1983, I led a search into this region [i.e. ", "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. The most recent time, probably about 12 or 18 months ago, my husband was on his own and saw it quite clearly, only a few metres away. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. It gave a strange coughing bark-like call and bounded away. He was Boss Cass's best henchman 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. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. These were able to hold their own in a fight with a dog and would attack if put under pressure. It looked, then lopped off into the cliff side of the road. They both wouldnt have believed what they had seen unless the other had confirmed it. This is the only report of a mother and its young.". Its fur was a tan colour, and the body stripes were blacky-brown. But this is no small feat. I had slowed for a couple of hundred rabbits and was just starting up again in my old morris minor 1000 when I came at slow speed, 15mph in 1977 upon a second group and right in the middle was a young tasmanian tiger with a poined head, kangaroo like fur and a long thin tail it sat facing me mesmerized by the lights as were the rabbits. 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. 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. It was an extraordinary experience, being so close to this animal. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,. , made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. Tasmanian tigers grew to between 39 and 51 inches, with a 20-inch tail. 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. ", "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. "2008, Upper Wilsons Creek; Tracey emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe her sighting. 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. Pam noticed what looked like pale stripes across the back. They ranged in size from 100-130cm in length and 50-65cm in height, and. To say I was astonished would be an understatement. But why the hell would a baby thylacine, which I am absolutely confident that this animal is, be following a pademelon and be being followed by a pademelon?, he asks viewers. Don't have an account? "26th January 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; at around 6 a.m. (Australia Day) Russel was driving from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads. At this point they all saw, barely 4 metres away, a striped-backed animal, standing beneath a street light. 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 He told Pete that early one morning recently while driving his tractor, he saw a pair of striped thylacines crossing his paddock. A short time after she saw the animal, while talking to her neighbours, she was surprised to find that three of them had also observed an animal of a similar description. User "SoulNavigator" reported in the comment section about a sighting they and a relative had while driving: "20 years ago myself , my brother and his wife drove from Brisbane to melbourne via inland route. 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. 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. Source:Anonymous. 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.". 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. With the bag over the animals head they were able to safely release it back into the wild. 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 had a very unusual manner of walking quite unlike a dog. He described it to us as a short greyish-furred animal, with narrow flanks and a drooping, long thin tail. About the edge of the swamp I found another set of "tiger" tracks. 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. We came to some wild, hilly country covered with scrub and rocks. Feral predator-free areas are being established to save a range of endangered marsupials. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. It had stripes and blue eyes, and I now realise when I look back that it was a thylacine I reckon. While Mr Waters says the larger animals in the photos - which he claims to be the mother and father - arent giving much away, he says the joey says it all. It looked to be Alsatian dog-sized and he saw the familiar dark body stripes of a Thylacine. Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger. My attention was caught by the movement of something about 60 meters away that at first glance I thought was a medium sized feral dog standing head down in short grass roughly 15 meters from the eucalypt scrub that borders the paddock like plains of the area. It was a bit after dusk. The road is long and straight. This included comprehensive surveys along the west coast of Tasmania, investigations of sightings, installation of automatic camera stations, and the creation of an expeditionary research team. ", "The Wollangambe Wilderness is a truly wild and remote region, situated north of the Grose Valley and north of the Bell-Bilpin Road. 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. The carnivorous Thylacine ate rodents, birds, kangaroos and other marsupials. The tail was thickly furred. I was thinking how cool it was that I'd saved a little pademelon from being eaten by something. Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. The date was Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, when we were forced to stop, at the turnoff to Evans Lookout, on the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath township. Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". It was not a dog sound she madenothing like it. It had a long thin tail about the length of its body. Authorities say there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. *It's body was longer & out of proportion than all other animals. It has a distinctly grey striped torso, long pointed muzzle, and a thick rigid tail. ", "Late 2007, New Brighton; Don was driving a bus with 8 passengers between 2 and 3am when they all observed a large unusual thylacine-like carnivore eating a small animal on the road, probably a bandicoot struck by an earlier vehicle near the speed bump. 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