Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". It was not a dog. The Guardian (Australia), Thursday 1 December. 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. Next time I see it I will take a photo. The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. After telling our family one day, our daughter and son-in-law said they also believe they had seen the same animal crossing xxxxx Rd, in the same area one evening. The head and everything else about it compared with pictures he had seen of Thylacines, and it was also a thin-bodied animal, which would surely make it a male [females being thicker set animals]. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. A Sydney driver found a crowd around his vehicle and an unsettling note when he returned to his car after shopping. Nearby residents Allan & Maureen also observed the animal. More from Local News Most recently, in July, a man just south of Hobart reported seeing a footprint that seemed to match that of the Tasmanian tiger. It stopped and looked in my direction then it continued off into the bush. Anonymous. maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. Then I screamed you know let it go and then it just ran off. 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. I really did not think about it too much until about 10 years later when I saw pictures of the strange animal I encountered that day. 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. "26th January 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; at around 6 a.m. (Australia Day) Russel was driving from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads. Black and white footage of Benjamin recorded in 1933 would become historically significant as the final images of the final Thylacine. "On Sunday 15th June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend,Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. This incident followed bad bushfires in the lower Blue Mountains-Grose Valley. Tasmanian tigers grew to between 39 and 51 inches, with a 20-inch tail. The Tasmanian Tiger was a sandy brown-yellow and had dark stripes wrapped around its back. 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. They said when they saw it, they both said "what was that", because it looked different to anything they had seen before. According to Mr Pereira the animals body fur was a light brown colour with dark stripes along its body and it had a long thin strait tail which it did not wag.". The animal moved in a way that I had never encountered before. ", "In January, 1983, a group of hikers were camped on a mountainside when they were awoken by strange cries from the nearby forest. The bands were about 2 cm wide & about 6 cm apart. Its fur was very short, about 15 mm long, of a greyish to light brown colour and was not at all mangy. He said it had stripes & a sloping back. Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp, but sightings made by people on the western side of the Blue Mountains included the finding, on Sunday 31st July 2022 in the soil of a Newnes fire-trail of a paw and heel by me. The last Thylacine The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. After 5 minutes I drove slowly towards it and at about 10 m in front of my car it suddenly pushed with its hind legs and with great power it ran off the road into the vegetation on all four legs. ", "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. She was able to get a good clear look at it because it was so close. Spooky to see the drawing on the web site and realise what it might be!", "the tasmania tiger is thriving around bilambil Hieghts Inner bushland, it was spotted only a couple of weeks ago by 2 well educated people driving up hogans road, it ran across the road into the bushland, description was a huge tan brown dog cat like creature with black stripes down it side, they said it didnt look like a dog and was much bigger but did resemble a big cat panther like but simarlarities of both, thet said it was fast but they still got plenty of vision of this creature", "During May 2010 a female Thylacine and cub were seen moving through bushland not far from Wombeyan Caves by campers. (1982). I know that because I have seen two," he writes. There were no visible markings on the body, although he thought the rump was perhaps darker than the rest of the animal, which had a tan colouring. ", "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. He reported I can say that what I saw did not look like anything I have witnessed before. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Tony & Suzette saw what looked like a thylacine. Hunting, the introduction of dogs and the loss of habitat were to blame for its demise. 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. It must be the boofiest pademelon head around, he says. "2nd November 2006, 9 pm, Thursday, New Brighton; Rob was fishing at Casons Road, New Brighton, when they saw an unusual animal. 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. Its tail was long and straight, resembling that of a kangaroo or wallaby. It gave a strange coughing bark-like call and bounded away. Most data was collected from old material. We began our expedition on Saturday 24th September 1983. The striped-bodied animal was too large to have been anything else. I searched the locality but found no sign of a body. Farmer opens up Tassie tiger mystery. A woman hounded out of Byron Bay for her reporting to have seen a thylacine. One particualr day they came upon a trap with a stange looking animal in it. 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. On Sept. 7, 1936, the animal known as . Michael noticed that it had a distinct waddle of the back legs as it walked and he watched it turn away from him and saw that it had a white band at the end of the tail with a black tip. ", "That month Mr Ron Perry was picnicking with his family in the valley around 3pm one day on the bank of the Cox River Picnic Ground. The tiger tracks were found in a hanging swamp area which was part of a rain forest on the south side of the mountain. ", "A week later, on Sunday 10th April we returned to Mr Turners property after he phoned us, to say that what might have been the same animal had returned the night before, leaving chew and scratch marks on his fowl house door, and more tracks around the area of the dam. At the time of writing this book [2017] Thylacine tracks are still being left at this site.". It looked to be Alsatian dog-sized and he saw the familiar dark body stripes of a Thylacine. However, I did get time to study the creature. Sightings of a strange greyhound-like animal with black body stripes had been made by people in the Blaxland Road area of Wentworth Falls, where it had been raiding homes for food. ", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, "1992 Ewingsdale; Tony saw a creature on a bright and sunny mid-morning 50 metres away that he was at a total loss to identify. "West of the Kanimbla-Megalong Valleys lies the Jenolan Road, where motorists and locals have been seeing tigers for generations. Its body fur was a mousy-brown colour with greyish stripes extending barrel-wise along the body. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. ", "1995, Coopers Lane, Main Arm; Hayley observed a golden-fawn animal with a striped tail. Then it just loped off the road into the yardbetween the two properties. 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. later, one of the men spotted a striped dog-like animal standing near the camp in the dim glow of the dying campfire. Her father realized that this was some unknown creature that they had never seen before. Questions do arise about this bizarre revelation. The Tasmanian tiger or 'thylacine' The thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. 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. It didnt run. (1985). A thylacine eating a rabbit on the side of a road. after a good few seonds it loped away. 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. I went back to England shortly afterwards but on my recent return to Australia the article by Samela Harris on the sightings of the thylacien and the resulting correspondence makes me wonder whether what we saw could have been a marsupial tiger or wolf. Had it fou, region, keeping to the water catchment scrub into, seen in? "On 13th June 1982, Heather and I were phoned by Mr Sam Condon, a university mathematics student and farmer, who owned a farm on the eastern side of Mittagong on the Wollondilly River. What did I see:* It was the size of medium to large dog* It moved like NOTHING else I had ever seen before. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. Now extinct, a Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) is seen in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1933. It moved on all four legs and had a tail similar to a wallaby. "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. Then she found thatthe woman that worked in the store had recently observed two of the animals chasing and killing a swamp wallaby near her home just a few kms up the valley. It was really quick; one second it was there in front of me, next second it was way in the distance. "On the 25th January 1982, about 10pm, Mr Darryl Morris and his wife Carrol were driving to Mount Riverview. The tail was thicker at the base than at the tip and was about 1ft in length. north of Grose Valley] accompanied by expert bushmen Rod Gerney and Robert Ashworth and several assistants in a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles.. Im dead-set sure the damn thing was not a fox, dingo or dog and Im positive about the zebra-like stripes down the back. ["Two animals of the hyena kind"]. "(The department) occasionally receives reports of thylacine sightings," the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said in a statement. The document includes detailed accounts of alleged close encounters with the mysterious predator across the northern and western regions of the state. I was excited to hear that there have been several reported sightings of Tasmanian tigers in the recent years. Locals even today believe that Thylacines spotted near the mountain are coming from there. 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. Also, on some evenings we hear an unusual sound from the same general area (our farm borders xxxx Rd). *Its colouring was a deep outback red. Finally, he hit upon the idea of constructing a trap for the creature in the form of a chicken-wire cage. To the west of here, outside Capertee, at least two of these elusive forest-dwellers have been claimed seen by campers on separate occasions.". 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. 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. Like most marsupials, the female had a pouch hence the scientific name. "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. Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit's own thylacine sighting: "3rd February 2007, Jones Road, Yelgun; just after dark, Gary Opit watched, for about 5 minutes, an unidentifiable carnivorous marsupial that measured approximately 1.75 m in length and about .75 m in height standing in the middle of Jones Road, Yelgun, adjacent the Billinudgel Nature Reserve. He was Boss Cass's best henchman Regardless of whether the Thylacine is extinct or alive, the debate will continue to rage until definitive proof emerges. It was long in the flank, like a horse. He spotted moving along the cement wall on the side of the road. It had a very unusual manner of walking quite unlike a dog. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. "It's not impossible but it gets less and less likely as time goes by.". 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. Two Tasmanian tigers in captivity at the Hobart Zoo. The creature, said Shannon, remained there for perhaps 2 to 5 minutes as they stood observing it. The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. ", "I was driving up the Gap Road at the time when it ran across the road ahead of me, so close that I almost ran over it. "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. He noticed the ears were rounded and that it stood about 1/2m high, its mouth was open. He watched it walk off from beside his car for one hundred metres. Mr Waters says these signs include the way the tail sits, the fact the feet are broad and there are four toe pads with claws. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. "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. The headlights provided us with a good look at the creature. The wolf-like thylacine . Don was thinking that it looked like a thylacine without stripes & then everyone began asking each other what it was & wondering whether it was a Tasmanian Tiger. However, in 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger died, and the Thylacine was considered extinct. [chapter title: Thylacines, pp. He only saw the Thylacine twice during the same week, approximately 3 years after he began working in those ranges. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. The eyes were very keen, watching in a way domestic dogs do not. Thylacine sighting map - Tasmanian Tiger Home Thylacine sighting map Thylacine sighting map Many people have asked for a thylacine sighting map. (2017). He immediately noticed that it had an unusual shuffling walk with the rear of the body sloping backwards & thought that it had a dislocated hip, which he had observed on an injured dog previously. The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. The encounter lasted in full no more than 15 seconds. Before colonisation, the Thylacine was not confined only to Tasmania. But, he adds, "society will not protect an animal it thinks is extinct. We found wallaby tracks nearby and signs of a scuffle. Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. The neighbour heard the commotion as well. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. 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 had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. I saw it for about 5 seconds as it crossed a remote dirt road. The animals face was like a dingo/dog/wolf but with rounder ears. [a pack of thylacine-like animals seen on the Vic/NSW border in 1977]. Thylacine hunter Michael Moss maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. It was dog-like and about the size of a full-grown Alsatian, with fawn-coloured short body hair and a row of blackish body stripes extending barrel-wise from mid-back to tail rump. We all believed we had seen a Tasmanian Tiger. Then she found that the woman that worked in the store had recently observed two of the animals chasing and killing a swamp wallaby near her home just a few kms up the valley. It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. ", His second experience occurred in January 1983, when from his bedroom window he saw what may have been the same animal seen by him the previous July, or another one, as it moved beneath a street light in the early hours of the morning. The tail, he noticed, was long and pointed, and followed the slope of the back. The road is long and straight. It reminded them of a Fossa or a civet and definitely was not a fox, dog or cat. We wasted no time in driving to his property. Suddenly we saw sitting in the road ahead an animal which at first we took to be a dog. While it was also out during the day, it was mostly nocturnal and usually hunted at night, in pairs or alone. The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. 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. ", "July 2011, 9.30 pm, Falls Road, Nimbin; Ms. Tarang Bates was driving home from Lismore when she saw an animal, covered in grey-fawn fur with dark stripes, unlike anything that she had ever seen before. Although it could possibly be a fox or bird, when I looked up the sound a thylacine makes, it was identical to one we found on YouTube. The tail was thickly furred which reminded him of a photo of a numbat. The wild population of the large carnivorous . A Gold Coast resident has been left dumbfounded after receiving an abusive letter from a neighbour that appeared to threaten her dog. 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 It popped out on this spot where we get wood, close to a creek, he said. Earlier last year, on the road between Ballina and Eltham, just after the Alstonville turnoff, dad and my brother saw something similar. These tracks were at least several hours old. Long, distinctive stripes cover its back and tail, which is inflexible and could be dragged along the ground. A short time later a bakery representative from the Gold Coast also saw the animal & commented to Sue about it.". ", Source:http://www.windellama.com.au/wild/Wild_Windellama_May_2005.html. (year?). The most remarkable feature was the strange manner of running: although the animal was swinging regularly sideways, the hind part of the body made a kind of bobbing up and down movement; the impression was as if the animal was drunk, as I had never seen anything like it. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. 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. Here it is. It was grey/brown with a lighter underside, especially under the chin. RELATED: 40 Funniest Wildlife Photos Ever. 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. She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. 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. (p. 26), "The Newnes Plateau country has lately [2015-2016] been the scene of a few tiger sightings, and paw prints finds which may, or may not have been made by Thylacines. 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. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Thylacine, has been presumed extinct since 1936 . Both at the same time - exactly the same time - my brothers wife and I yelled "Tasmanian Tiger". 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. Over the last few years, my Husband and I have both seen what we believe to be a Thylacine. It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. 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. This is Opit's summarisation of the report: "1964, May, Monday, 5 a.m. Whian Whian State Forest; Clive gave me a very detailed description of the animal observed twice in 1 week. Until recently, the last confirmed dodo sighting on its home island of Mauritius was made in 1662, but a 2003 estimate by David Roberts and Andrew Solow placed the extinction of the bird around 1690. It has me very interested.". Each time it was in the same area, crossing the same road xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, heading into a sugar cane field. The animal had escaped into scrubland that extends eastward to a gully, which drops down into the Grose Valley, where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported seen by campers and bushwalkers to the present day.". It was about 18 inches tall at the shoulders, 4ft in length from head to tail, and it had short body hair of light sandy colour, with a row of dark stripes arranged along the body beginning at the shoulders to the rump of the tail. 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