The video was posted on YouTube, and shared in the Sydney subreddit on social media site Reddit. 5 BEST Tasmanian Tiger Sightings Caught On VIDEO and I review them to see what I think they ACTUALLY are! ", "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. (1997). They weighed 33 to 66 lbs. 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. "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. ", "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. One bounty hunter suggested it was a lost species of extinct Tasmanian Tiger. "Good description given, bounded into bush," the report states. 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. Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. I recognised them to be those of an undoubted Thylacine. We came to the Pilliga. Farmer opens up Tassie tiger mystery. It smelled of musk, like a mild skunk or possum odour. ", "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. In 1957, a specimen was reportedly spotted from a helicopter. Christian Kopp (11 at the time) and his father saw a thylacine when collecting firewood. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was a marsupial an animal that keeps its young in a pouch, like a kangaroo. 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. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. He noticed the ears were rounded and that it stood about 1/2m high, its mouth was open. 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. He passed it and stopped the car but it had disappeared into the bush by the time he looked back. The community was abuzz after Neil Waters, President of Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, shared a three-minute video from "some little town" in northeast Tasmania on Monday. It looked like a stretched-out greyhound, 30% longer in the body than a dog. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. He says the animal also has short feet like a Tasmanian tiger and shiny hocks, with evidence of striping on the tail. READ MORE: Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger There have been hundreds of sightings according to the Thylacine Awareness Group which has this image on their website. The final thylacine was captured in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. I saw it for about 5 seconds as it crossed a remote dirt road. ", "2005, New Brighton; Gary and Sharmaine observed a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump. ", "2005, Tregeagle; Rhys observed a golden-fawn thylacine-like animal. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. Another search of the farm and its surrounds failed to turn up anything new, and the creature did not return.". 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. Two adults and a juvenile. He informed me that on the previous night, something had visited his farm [where he grew apples and raised poultry], leaving paw prints in mud around his dam, situated amid dense bush with a gully below it to the north, which led down into the Kanimbla Valley. It was not afraid of me but backed away whenever I approached closer than 2-3 m. The tail was the least dog-like feature. 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. But what made the creature quite distinctive was the dark body with stripes on the sides, not too dissimilar in fact to the pattern of a Thylacine. The picture of a thylacine on the Tasmanian Cascade Beer label would be the closest animal to what we saw. To this day I wish I had have got out to speak to the driver of the 'cruiser, but my head was just spinning! Product Information. "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. Nearby residents Allan & Maureen also observed the animal. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. "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. Eight alleged sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wilderness have been reported to the state government over the past three years. 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. I walked to the spot were the animal had been and found a small dead wombat "gutted", a very strange sight for the plains. ", "Meanwhile, in the Hartley Valley below Mt York, a striped-bodied dog-like creature was reported seen attacking sheep on more than one occasion about this same time. It had no spots, but it had stripes just like the long-gone Tasmanian tiger.. He stated that it didnt look like some unusual hybrid but a species of carnivorous marsupial. However, I had never observed a wallaby engaged in such an unusual activity, stretched out along the ground instead of the normal upright posture or bent down feeding on vegetation. It was grey with dark grey mottling on its rump like bands, it had distinctive large round ears and was quite unlike a dog or fox. ", I was past Howes Valley near Howes Mountain, on a stretch of winding road. "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. He vividly recalled his dads words: You dont see this every day, son. Its not a dog, its not a cat. It was huge, almost one metre high. ", "That same year a Tasmanian Tiger-like animal, was seen by Mr Bill Forbes [since deceased] after it had just killed one of the goats he bred on his Mt York Road farm.". 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. As we were driving towards Rosebank, I saw an animal about the size of a whippet dash across a grassy slope. We live on the eastern side of Mullumbimby town near the sugar cane fields at Morrison Avenue. "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. However, there have been many unconfirmed encounters with Tasmanian tigers since Benjamins death in 1936. Without hesitation, he put down his soup spoon, seized his gun from the wall, pushed a couple of cartridges into . He accelerated up to it and observed that its back, rump & tail were covered with dark bands. 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 not a Facebook group, and I don't remember what the organisation was called. Fortean Times 25: 36. Uru Publications. Im not sure if this is a characteristic of the Thylacine. He said it looked exactly like the Tasmanian tigers he had seen pictures of in books except that it was a lot darker in colouring. I have not seen one like this before. He believes about 200 Tasmanian tigers exist in three separate groups on the island, 100 in the south-west, 70 in the north-west and 30 in the north-east. It was not striped but had 2 large bands or darker colour on its shoulders and hind section. My brother was asleep in the back. He was camped at the old army hut and was driving to the logging coup on the western side of Peach Mountain lookout at 5 am on a Monday morning when he observed a thylacine cross the road 3 metres in front of his car. 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. We were driving on xxxx Rd at the time. ", "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. [The Thylacine was surely a male, females beingmore thickset - RG]. He spotted moving along the cement wall on the side of the road. "We live on a sugar cane farm close to Murwillumbah in North Eastern NSW. She said that its gait was awkward looking, and looked like it was loping because its front legs were shorter than its back legs, and it looked quite ungainly as it ran. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 27 March, p. 46. " He observed it again at 5 pm on the Friday afternoon of the same week whilst driving back from work at exactly the same place. Our sighting lasted only seconds before the animal vanished into roadside bushes, said Darryl.". (1968). They said when they saw it, they both said "what was that", because it looked different to anything they had seen before. Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? 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. The owner remarked that they would have to kill the animal as he would not allow a monster to live on the farm. The road is long and straight. A huge population of mutant tiger snakes has inhabited a small island off the coast of Tasmania to the point where tales of fleeing tourists are routinely regaled like . It was early morning around 5.30 to 6.00 a.m. when she heard a commotion outside the house as if a dog was fighting with our cats. 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. ", "On 3rd January 1980 I received a phone call from a Mr Roger Handly and his wife. We were driving at 20mph speed, when, turning a corner I saw this strange dog-like animal as did Carrol, as it emerged from bushes on the right-hand side of the road. This animal had walked around the edge of before drinking, then retraced its steps back towards the gully. 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.". Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. Join the conversation, you are commenting as. 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. It was dog-like and about the size of a full-grown Alsatian, with fawn coloured body fur and a row of blackish body stripes extending barrel-wise from mid-back to tail-rump. Before it vanished off the roadside I noticed its length, about 5ft, the body stripes were blackish and ran from the middle of the back to the rump of the tail upon reddish-brown coloured body fur.". Its body was greyish-brown and when it got up we observed that it's hindquarters appeared "tucked in" and were marked with dark stripes. The time was approximately 6.15 - 6.30 am and the sun had been up for about 30 minutes. Two days later their teenage son observed it and described it as being a cross between a kangaroo and a greyhound. Was dog like but had a different stance ie hind quarter high, it had a size between a fox and a dingo. It has a distinctly grey striped torso, long pointed muzzle, and a thick rigid tail. Daily Telegraph (Australia), 19 November, p. 3. * 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. Then seeing us, turned and dashed off into the darkness. It could just be a mangy fox, but it seems to be bigger than a fox and it's not shy, Groves explained. (2022). It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, whichwas stiff with no point. Both at the same time - exactly the same time - my brothers wife and I yelled "Tasmanian Tiger". It had distinctive stripes across its back & rump, which sloped down to a long kangaroo-like tail. The Tasmanian Tiger was a sandy brown-yellow and had dark stripes wrapped around its back. "On the night of Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, I was with a woman friend, being driven along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath to my home at Katoomba. ", "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. "30th December 2008, 6:15 am, 5-37 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay, NSW. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. Apart from its size, it was greyhound-like in appearance with narrowing flanks, its body sloping downward to a long, thin tail which followed the slope of the back and seemed kangaroo-like in that it did not appear to wag. It was about 5ft from head to tail tip and up to 1 ft tall. They said that the depth of impression of the tracks suggested an animal of at least 75 lb weight. The narrator says the Tasmanian tiger is a "dangerous opponent" who is no longer able to live in its natural habitat. The headlights provided us with a good look at the creature. By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild became extremely rare, and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilfred (Wilf) Batty shot and killed the last-known wild Tasmanian tiger. It was travelling at an incredible speed. The database currently contains 11,166 species and subspecies (as of January 2023). The creature then ran down the side of a house into scrub. It seemed to be stationary for a second or two as it was down the end of a long stretch of road so I managed a pretty good look. 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). However, reports of thylacine sightings continue. It appeared greyish-brown, with dark stripes on the hind quarters, but none occurred up front. A couple were spotlighting near Torington, when they saw three thylacines. Here it is. Their daughter also saw it a year later and described the same animal. I tried to explain it to people for years but couldn't. 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. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. I ran outside to find my cat facing off with a dog-like creature 4 times its size. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. , who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. Id love to know., READ MORE: Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger. I believe the animal was heading for a gully that drops down into the Grose Valley, where other striped-bodied, dog-like animals [surely Thylacines] have been seen by people over many years. "Back in 1960 Mr Gordon Pereira [of whom more will be said anon] was a NSW Government Railways station assistant, driving his car home from work at Medlow Bath railway station about 10pm when, 1 miles east of the [since demolished] Caltex depot on Whipcord Hill, on the Great Western Highway, an animal which he described as being about greyhound size with a large head, was caught in his headlights as it ran across the highway from the scrubland on the western [Megalong Valley] side to the railway lines, disappearing within seconds. These were able to hold their own in a fight with a dog and would attack if put under pressure. Most recently, in July, a man just south of Hobart reported seeing a footprint that seemed to match that of the Tasmanian tiger. Source: Gilroy, Rex. A Tasmanian tiger enthusiast has claimed to have captured photographic evidence of the extinct animal and possible "proof" of breeding. When we saw the skin pegged out, my father was surprised because he had not seen a live one for perhaps 40 years and believed there were none left alive.". ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. This time it was coming down the slope from the right, jumped down the bank onto the road & continued down the slope as if it regularly used the same animal track. The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. Anonymous. ", "In March 1973 an animal answering to the description of the Thylacine was claimed by a Mrs Cummins to have raided her fowl yard at Wentworth Falls. 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. Reading your article (Walkabout, June) on the thylacine recalled a sighting made while driving with two companions on the unfrequented road between Adelong and Tumbarumba, N.S.W. It looked straight at me before moving away. ", "1999, Brunswick Heads; Jodi saw a striped animal cross the road between the fish co-op and the highway. (2017). It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. They weighed up to 66 pounds. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. 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. 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. "Mr Gordon Pereira [mentioned earlier] was puzzled as to what he could do about the mysterious dog-like animal that had been making repeated attacks on his chickens at his Wentworth Falls property during June 1972. Long, distinctive stripes cover its back and tail, which is inflexible and could be dragged along the ground. The striped-bodied animal was too large to have been anything else. A tassie tiger hunter said he has 'irrefutable proof Tasmanian tiger is not extinct He released three images, one of which he claims is solid proof they're alive The images show a small. He was certain that it was not a cat, fox or dog. * Its head was weird shaped with a long jaw/snout. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. It disappeared behind the fig tree and did not re emerge. We all believed we had seen a Tasmanian Tiger. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. 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