Source:Hunt, Elle. Mr Waters latest video includes a series of interviews with experts ruling out all kinds of animals they could be, one of them the pademelon. The body fur looked light grey or brownish in colour, with dark stripes situated about mid-way on the spine extending down towards the back legs, stopping about the rump. The front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. There was very little traffic on the roads. "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. *It's body was longer & out of proportion than all other animals. This animal had walked around the edge of before drinking, then retraced its steps back towards the gully. The size of a dog, it had a big distinctive head, brown fur and a stiff kangaroo-like tail. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. He stated that it didnt look like some unusual hybrid but a species of carnivorous marsupial. 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. '", "While these are recorded, there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists.". 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"7th January 2006, Saturday, 8.30 am, Drake; Greg worked at the Tenterfield Bowling Club on Friday night and he headed home at 7.45am Saturday morning. Clive said that there were no foxes up there in the Whian Whian Range. At this moment they both saw a greyhound-like animal, long and skinny, run across the highway from the right-hand side [south] to the left [north]. Plaster casts were made and later matched with others found in Tasmania in 1974 whose peculiar paw structure identified them as thylacine. ", "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. The eyes were very keen, watching in a way domestic dogs do not. A thylacine eating a rabbit on the side of a road. 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! Then it just loped off the road into the yard, Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. Thylacine winter. ", Source:https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, "Mr John Gilmore phoned me in August 1986, to relate an experience he had back in August 1979, while driving along Putty Road towards Bulga. Ive been a vet nurse for 20 years. 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. 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. Christian Kopp (11 at the time) and his father saw a thylacine when collecting firewood. 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. It occured roughly 30km from the first, some twenty years earlier. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. 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 not everyone is convinced. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. "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. Two adults and a juvenile. It could just be a mangy fox, but it seems to be bigger than a fox and it's not shy, Groves explained. But one expert said hed only put a $50 bet down that it was the famed Aussie animal - a safe bet Mr Waters agrees at the end of the clip. A massive animal crossed the road in front of me. (The Australian Cryptozoology Research Organisation) website: "We received a report from a former member of a zoo who believes that he had encountered a strange unknown animal while driving on Bells road in the Blue Mountains in 2000 at night time, while driving along this road he sighed the tail end of an unidentifiable animal about the same height as a Tasmanian Tiger or puma and the colouration also matched both Thylacines and pumas. She stated Im an artist and I paint native animals and the gait of this animal meant that it was a marsupial, not a dog or a cat. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. The last Tasmanian tiger is believed to have died in captivity in 1936, but sightings like the ones released from Tasmania have persisted for years, with most of the sightings coming from spotters . It was probably heading for the nearby Grose Valley, he said.". ", "Not long after this experience I learnt that, between December 1971 and throughout January 1972, there had been a spate of sightings of an animal, or animals, answering to the description of the Thylacine, near Blackheath along the Great Western Highway in the vicinity of our sighting. The time was 3am. Its physical appearance matched that of stuffed specimen's preserved in government museums.". 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. 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 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. The location was 40 miles south of Singleton on the Putty Road. It stood on its back legs when it saw me and stared. Exploring animal welfare, animal care, and the human-animal bond. A rough transcript of her report (1:32-3:09) is as follows: "I take people out into the rainforest with the night vision goggles, ummm, and we go looking for animals. ", "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. Its eyes were pale green reflecting in our weak head torches. It had stripes and blue eyes, and I now realise when I look back that it was a thylacine I reckon. She was able to get a good clear look at it because it was so close. . CNN . Driving on deeper into the range we stopped to investigate an extensive tract of swampland, whose muddy shoreline contained paw prints of wombats, wallabies, bandicoots, possums and dingos. There was white around the muzzle and black around the ears. Ah we were looking at the pademelons, there was maybe about six of them just grazing on this clearing and then to, ah out of nowhere, this animal just came and pounced on one of the pademelons and grabbed it around the neck and, and I just just took me by surprise. It was about 5ft from head to tail tip and up to 1 ft tall. north of Grose Valley] accompanied by expert bushmen Rod Gerney and Robert Ashworth and several assistants in a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles.. I ran outside to find my cat facing off with a dog-like creature 4 times its size. On 13 May 1930, in the Mawbanna district of north-eastern Tasmania, farmer Wilf Batty was eating his lunch when he heard a loud squawking coming from the direction of his chicken coop. It then ran across the road as I pulled up. 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. Black and white footage of Benjamin recorded in 1933 would become historically significant as the final images of the final Thylacine. The animal stood about 61cm off the. Againno familiar dog body language. This animal's head was dog-like, but its ears were shaped somewhat like a cat's. Another report, filed by a farmer in a cycling group, claims to have seen a "large cat-like creature" from a distance on the Lyell Highway. Gary is a one of the great people in this area knowing wildlife and ummm and so I was talking to him about it. The color of this animal was light in appearance & there were no stripes. I was already out of breath as I entered the trees, and soon realised the animal had given me the slip, so I walked back to the car. It came from the left hand side up the slope, crossed the road & then leapt up the bank. 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 was around the year 1948. Busy mum, blogger and musician, trying to thrive in Scandinavia. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. The father and a neighbour got a hassion bag and threw it over the animal. 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. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Peter, principal of Main Arm School saw what looked to him very much like a thylacine. (1977). The snout was not longer than a greyhound and was more Alsatian-like. Its fur was very short, about 15 mm long, of a greyish to light brown colour and was not at all mangy. I was driving south about 20 min into a 9 hr drive home to Melbourne when a 'thing' with the strangest walk/run burst from the scrub straight across the road, in front of me & a White landcruiser ute travelling the other way. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. I searched the locality but found no sign of a body. Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. He passed it and stopped the car but it had disappeared into the bush by the time he looked back. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. "It's not impossible but it gets less and less likely as time goes by.". It reminded them of a Fossa or a civet and definitely was not a fox, dog or cat. We were driving along the road when a animal stepped out in front of use further down the highway. Source:https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm. A Victoria farmer, Peter Groves, made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. ", "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. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. The owner remarked that they would have to kill the animal as he would not allow a monster to live on the farm. 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.". It was dog-sized but not thin like a greyhound. 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. Then seeing us, turned and dashed off into the darkness. This species, also called Thylacine, was declared extinct after the last known specimen died in captivity, in an Australian zoo in 1936. Generally, although dog-like, it was not Canid, because of the structure of the hind part of the body. 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. At least eight sightings of Tasmanian tigers have been reported recently, reviving speculation the mammal is not extinct, as scientists insist. The document includes detailed accounts of alleged close encounters with the mysterious predator across the northern and western regions of the state. 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. 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. 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. Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? ", "1999, Brunswick Heads; Jodi saw a striped animal cross the road between the fish co-op and the highway. Two Tasmanian tigers in captivity at the Hobart Zoo. It had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. Don't have an account? Nobody in her family believed what she had seen until 3 days later when she was coming home with her daughter and about 2kms from home they saw the same animal run into the bush and her daughter described it exactly as Donna had seen it. I am a geologist and had another geologist see it too. 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 south-west of Western Australia has witnessed sightings of panthers, tigers and cougars. Walkabout 34(12): 8. It was the size of a small dingo but with an elongated, slim body and the hind quarters was more prominent. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. 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. In Tasmania, the Thylacine was most predominant along the north and east coast, and in the midland plains region. Yet, when I went to the Lithgow Police Station to report my sighting, all they did was laugh at me and said I was crazy", Author?. 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. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. The Tasmanian tiger, a large striped carnivore, is believed to have gone extinct over 80 years ago - but newly released Australian government documents show sightings have been reported . I then looked in the rearview mirrow to see the Landcruiser doing the same, confirming to me that what ever I saw was wierd!. We found wallaby tracks nearby and signs of a scuffle. Most data was collected from old material. 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