Black and white footage of Benjamin recorded in 1933 would become historically significant as the final images of the final Thylacine. It was about 18 kg, fawn coloured short dense fur. There was very little traffic on the roads. ", 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. The wild population of the large carnivorous . Zoologist Jeremy Griffith and farmer James Malley conducted the most intensive search for the Tasmanian tiger ever between 1967 and 1973. 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. The time was around midnight as they left the Country Club road into Cook Road, then turned into Banksia Road on their way home. The animal turned to look at the women in the car. The mature thylacine ranged from 100 to 130 cm long, with a tail of around 50 . The animals face was like a dingo/dog/wolf but with rounder ears. By this time our car was but a few feet from the animal which just stood there staring at our vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights' glare. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. Advocate (Coffs Harbour, NSW), 9 March. He described it as "clear as a day". However, reports of thylacine sightings continue. 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. * 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. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? Eight alleged sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wilderness have been reported to the state government over the past three years. (2022). "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. On a bike ride to the beach they had a good look at what both thought may have been a Tasmanian tiger as ridiculous as that sounds, stated Andrew. The animal seen on video is about a metre in length and about 50cm tall, which would be. Was it a tiger? 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. We began our expedition on Saturday 24th September 1983. Rod and I later staked out the site overnight with cameras, in the hope of capturing a tiger on film as it came to drink at the swamp, but failed to see any. It had a long thin straight tail, short sandy brown fur, a greyhound look to it and an odd gait. Five vets all agree it looks like a four-legged animal and not a macropod that hops, Mr Waters says. Dad always said it was [a Tasmanian tiger]., They believed there could be no doubt.". 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. Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. It's also. 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. 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." After shaking our heads in disbelief, we were the ones who left, having finished our fishing and as we left we were able to see it walking around in the distance.", "Also around this time, Russel and Michael were walking within the Brunswick Valley Nature Reserve near the flying fox colony and both independently observed thylacine-like animals, one slinking past in front of them & one apparently following them. He described the creature as having black to faded stripes on its back-end and smaller than a dingo. While the unconfirmed sightings may fuel the hopes of some, the thylacine is still widely considered to be extinct. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. It was illuminated by the headlights of my car approximately 20 m in front of me. ", "1995, Coopers Lane, Main Arm; Hayley observed a golden-fawn animal with a striped tail. I wondered through my work day trying to figure out what the hell I had just sighted, and next day I went round to the local National Parks office to ask about it. 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. 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. 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.". On September 7, 1936, the final Thylacine, which became known as Benjamin died in captivity. Australasian Post, 31 January. Kim Falconer wrote I heard a loud sound like a cross between a guttural possum noise and a large dog retching. The elderly chaps sighting was about ten years ago in the same area, closer to dawn, about 6am.". It had distinctive stripes across its back & rump, which sloped down to a long kangaroo-like tail. He also noticed the body tended to slope downwards and the long tail followed the slope of the back. These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". I was excited to hear that there have been several reported sightings of Tasmanian tigers in the recent years. 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. Western Australian Naturalist 10(7): 171-172. The dog and the people chased the animal into a large hollow log where it crouched to stare at them. It appeared to bound away using its front and hind legs in unison reminding me of a wild boar in full flight but with much smoother and longer strides. However, a more important discovery was just around the corner for us. Nearby residents Allan & Maureen also observed the animal. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. ", "2005, South Golden Beach, Kolora Way; Lyndel observed a thylacine-like animal without stripes.". Its fur was very short, about 15 mm long, of a greyish to light brown colour and was not at all mangy. A thylacine eating a rabbit on the side of a road. About the edge of the swamp I found another set of "tiger" tracks. 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. Roger Hardy also informed me that in the Mount Mondilla area are deep gorges. We were within yards of it when it moved off the road into the scrub with a loping cat-like run. Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. Ive shot and skinned roos and foxes before so I have had experience with them up in Armidale. However, I did get time to study the creature. Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? 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 . Robyn was driving near the Club House just before entering Cliff Drive, where a two-storied,shingle-roofed house stands amid pine trees, on the corner opposite the golf course and beside asecond house, when in the headlights glare they both saw a Thylacine moving slowly across the roadfrom the Club House towards two houses. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops | Newcastle Herald | Newcastle, NSW New Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops By Damon Cronshaw Updated March 8 2017 - 3:06pm, first published March 7 2017 - 5:07pm View + 20 Photos Christian Kropp knows what he saw. 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. I've never seen nothing like it again. Suddenly I caught sight of a large dog-like animal in the headlights just as I was turning a corner. The colour was golden-fawn, 60 cm in height and the ears were rounded. Now plans are underfoot to bring back this thylacine and reintroduce it to Tassie. I have no doubt about what I saw. In 1982, the species was declared extinctas there had been no proof of the thylacine's . 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. As such it generally moved at a slow pace. According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a big Labrador dog, moving with a slinkyloping movement, somewhat like a cat. There was no question about it, the animal I had seen was a Thylacine. All I thought at the time was, what is this? "On the night of 6th October 1982, at 8.26pm, Mr John Galluzzi was driving toward Katoomba on the Great Western Highway, when, at the bottom of Boddington Hill, Wentworth Falls, This creature appeared, cantering across the road from right to left. It stood on its back legs when it saw me and stared. She and a work mate looked at each other in total disbelief & both said together What in gods name was that? Now extinct, a Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) is seen in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1933. The color of this animal was light in appearance & there were no stripes. Againno familiar dog body language. "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. I found fresh faeces that may be its (it was not obviously male) and have frozen a sample. 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. 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