Unexplained! The wild population of the large carnivorous . Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. ", "I believe i saw a saw a Thylocene at the base of the Barrington tops near Wolemi brook on the 21/7/08 at around 11 am, whilst i was travelling to a remote a exploration drill rig site. While some of these tracks were indistinct amid small twig and leaf fragments, two were not, and I cast these. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. We came to some wild, hilly country covered with scrub and rocks. Rex Gilroy believes so. All Rights Reserved. Im not sure if this is a characteristic of the Thylacine. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. Source:Gilroy, Rex. It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. Ive been a vet nurse for 20 years. 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 last close sighting was about 6 months ago and it was right by our car on our forest drive. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable. Early timber getters never entered this inaccessible area. It was travelling at an incredible speed. The headlights provided us with a good look at the creature. He spotted moving along the cement wall on the side of the road. It tried to get through the armour rail on the highway, but couldnt, so it ran parallel with it for five yards, then it went through the rail at a higher opening. It has a distinctly grey striped torso, long pointed muzzle, and a thick rigid tail. There was very little traffic on the roads. Western Australian Naturalist 10(7): 171-172. ", "1988, Cawongla near Kyogle; on the roadside at night, Len saw a thylacine-like animal showing distinct dark brown banding on the rump, hips, and legs and along the tail. ", I take "on occasions" to represent at least three separate encounters (viz. She had a springy-rocking horse gait, moving quickly then holding very still, lifting her head. Pam noticed what looked like pale stripes across the back. "2nd November 2006, 9 pm, Thursday, New Brighton; Rob was fishing at Casons Road, New Brighton, when they saw an unusual animal. Its tail was darker and it had short hair just like a roo. Known officially to science as a thylacine, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs . 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. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5. The animals watched the approaching car for a few seconds and then raced off into the bush. The search was successful in that we found fresh paw prints in mud at a remote swampland location. Suddenly a striped-bodied dog-like animal strode across the track just ahead of them then ran off out of sight. ", "1997, 4am, Uki; Peter described his sighting of 1997 on the Murwillumbah Road to Uki near the intersection with Mount Warning Road at 4am when he observed what at first he thought was a fox on the side of the road. Upon examining the cage, he found that the creature, whatever it was, had escaped by ripping through the chicken-wire covering, leaving a hole 8 by 11 inches in size. These sightings do not include the most recent sightings of the last five to ten years. "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. And [inaudible], and I still don't have an answer. Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) revealed there have been eight reported sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the past three years. ", "2003, Byron Bay on the coastal road to Ballina 2ks past the Lennox Head turnoff; Doof daddy contacted the ABC radio station to say that about 5 years ago in 2003 he was returning to Byron Bay from Ballina along the coastal road after work in the early hours of the morning. ", "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. 5 BEST Tasmanian Tiger Sightings Caught On VIDEO and I review them to see what I think they ACTUALLY are! near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. But the tinny-sipping South Australian Tassie tiger hunter, who filmed the clip wandering around northern Tasmanian bushland, was quickly shutdown, with the museum there ruling the photos were likely of a pademelon. It had stripes that were not bold. An anonymous report (including two separate sightings) made to REPAD: "In about 2007, 2008 I saw this creature at Bowna Reserve in NSW (near Albury 2640). There was white around the muzzle and black around the ears. ", "1992, 8.30 pm, Coopers Shoot Road, Bangalow; Vicki said that the weirdest animal appeared in the middle of the road. He also noticed the body tended to slope downwards and the long tail followed the slope of the back. It was at the edge of the bush at the top of a small gully. According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a big Labrador dog, moving with a slinkyloping movement, somewhat like a cat. Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? In all cases I have clearly cited the source. 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. Suddenly I caught sight of a large dog-like animal in the headlights just as I was turning a corner. The report says both people in the car were "100% sure it was a thylacine". Victorian Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports Reports from other states and countries can be accessed here. In November 2017, three investigators including. They checked them every few days also. ", Source:http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. 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. I walked to the spot were the animal had been and found a small dead wombat "gutted", a very strange sight for the plains. It was long in the flank, like a horse. 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. (2016). A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. In 2005, two German tourists to Tasmania, Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen claimed to have taken pictures of a live Tasmanian tiger. Last February, two visitors claimed an animal with a "stiff tail and striped back" wandered in front of their car at Corinna in the island's west. The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. 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. Like most marsupials, the female had a pouch hence the scientific name. 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. I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. '", "While these are recorded, there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists.". It was thin and brownish and had a long thin tail. (Image credit: National Film and . 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). June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend, Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba. The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. Although. ", "Early 2008 late 2007, Repentance Creek Rd at the Minyon Falls turnoff. Grabbing his camera Kevin leapt from his car and, as he said later, tore up the embankment after it! I have rung and reported this to my local veterinarian.". 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 head, he observed, appeared too big for the body, and from the mid-back to the tail rump were faint black coloured body stripes.". 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. Wildlife Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told they're nuts' The Thylacine Awareness Group is 'dedicated to the research, recognition and conservation of our. He says it comes back to the foot of the animal and asks what else could it be, with most features ruling anything obvious out. He described it to me at the time, as being not quite the same shape as a dog or dingo, fairly light brown, with stripes on its back. 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. One of the most significant was from Maureen from Byron Post Office whose husband had spotted one while posting letters in The Pocket. These were able to hold their own in a fight with a dog and would attack if put under pressure. ", "In March 1982, a camper sighted a thylacine-like animal drinking from a creek in the Grose valleyThe camper described the animal he saw as being two metres long, with greyish body fur {coloration can vary} displaying about a dozen blackish stripes extending down the body. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. ", "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. While it was also out during the day, it was mostly nocturnal and usually hunted at night, in pairs or alone. 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. The Tasmanian Tiger is to Australia what Sasquatch is to North Americaa creature that has often been sighted but never actually corralled, by deluded amateurs. 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. The dog rushed in to attack the animal & Mark, the farm owner and several other workers were surprised to see the dog backing out of the shed with an animal almost as large covered with brown stripes across its back and a thick, stiff, kangaroo-like tail. Casts made from these tracks would later be successfully compared with Thylacine paw casts from Tasmania, found by another researcher in 1974.The success of our expedition was publicised in the Lithgow Mercury newspaper", "Freshly made paw prints of one or more of these creatures found by ourselves and colleagues at another Blue Mountains location in 1983 and 1984. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. These extended from about the mid-back onto the tail rump. Groves managed to pull out his mobile phone and snap a picture of the creature which he then uploaded to social media. Two adults and a juvenile. (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. 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. . There is a maze of crevices and caverns in which any animal could live unseen, and it was into this gully that the tiger tracks led. 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. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. "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. It had a feline-like face and a long body & tail, from snout to tail tip at least one & a half metre in length, covered with yellow tawny fur. "It is almost extinct, but not quite. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. "14 years ago I was working as an assistant to a geophysicist during a large survey 30 or so miles out of Broken Hill when we began sighting a very strange creature almost on a daily basis, usually in the mornings as wed arrive to begin our work. "30th December 2008, 6:15 am, 5-37 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay, NSW. Copyright 2023 The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. These were mostly reported by motorists.". "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 could see it entering a stand of gums across a paddock about 200ft away, so gave chase. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. while I was speechless at what I saw. Source: Anonymous. Christian, who now lives at Seal Rocks, remembers the experience as clear as day. 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. 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. 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. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". Since Benjamin died on September 7, 1936, there has been no official sighting of a Tasmanian tiger. A woman hounded out of Byron Bay for her reporting to have seen a thylacine. Sometimes you just need to know when to let the squirrel win the day. The color of this animal was light in appearance & there were no stripes. 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. 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. ", Source:Anonymous. That same year, a government plant biologist saw what they believed to be a Tasmanian tiger ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), or thylacine, from 30 meters (100 feet) away in a remote area. The largest remnant bushland in western NSW.
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