(year?). (p. 205), Source:Clark, Jerome. ", "During September 1983, I organised a major search for evidence of living Thylacines in the Wollongambie Wilderness, east of Lithgow. 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. The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. During the course of our search we uncovered a sandstone shoal containing water pools with ancient Aboriginal stone axe grinding grooves, and a rock shelter containing surface stone flakes manufactured around 6,000 years ago. It was shaped like a kangaroos tail, but held straight out behind instead of dragging on the ground. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? It had already crossed the road heading west into gum forest, but stopped, standing side on as I approached about 100ft from it. With the bag over the animals head they were able to safely release it back into the wild. According to CNN, an official document . These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. Between 2016 to 2019, the report notes seven sightings of the Tasmanian tiger. The animal then bounded off up an embankment out of sight. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. 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 then took off but didn't bounce like a kangaroo. seen by Robyn Simon and Rebecca Jackson could only be a visitor to the, area, until it settles into a new habitat, perhaps with its mate if one is nearby, out on the, Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? I have looked at other posts and have seen that they have described it as I saw it. ", Johns third sighting of a tiger took place in March 1984 around 6.10am. While it was also out during the day, it was mostly nocturnal and usually hunted at night, in pairs or alone. We had all agreed that it was too large for a feral cat, and too odd in shape as well, and that was certainly true in a number of respects. "On the night of Saturday 1st April 2000, 16-year-old Shannon Kus, his mother Marjorie and his mate Brad Miller, were walking home from the Wentworth Falls Country Club. The time was approximately 6.15 - 6.30 am and the sun had been up for about 30 minutes. ", "15th January 2003, 9.30 am, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Mailman Peter drove right up to a strange looking animal standing on an earth bank on the southern section of Stock Route Road, just behind Billinudgel. A woman hounded out of Byron Bay for her reporting to have seen a thylacine. The animals watched the approaching car for a few seconds and then raced off into the bush. READ MORE: What can prove Tassie tigers are alive. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. 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. After the second time I saw it, it was gone nowhere to be seen. "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. Authorities say there is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. 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 was really quick; one second it was there in front of me, next second it was way in the distance. ", "8th March 2008, Frazer drive, Tweed Heads; Joel contacted me at the ABC Radio station and stated I was travelling on Frazer drive in Tweed Heads, near the Tweed Heights turn off, at 11.40 p.m. and saw this creature lopping across the road with its tail straight out behind it. 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. I saw it dash up a 4ft embankment into scrub, a greyish-furred, black body-striped animal. "There's a lot more chronic searching these days with cameras and wildlife traps for other animals. *It had strong powerful hind legs*smaller front legs*A long stiff tail that pointed straight out. Source: Gilroy, Rex. The final thylacine was captured in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. 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. 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. The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. A thylacine eating a rabbit on the side of a road. They did not believe that it was a dog, dingo or a fox. The guy on duty looked at me as if I was some sort of crank who had just reported a Martian, but at least gave me a book to leaf through to see if I could recognize the species. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. Sam said that one night in June 1980 about 10.30pm, as he and his wife were driving up their dirt road toward their farmhouse, their headlights caught three Alsatian dog-size animals, yellowish-brown furred, with vertical black body stripes along their bodies, feeding upon a wallaby they had apparently just killed on the roadside. Had it fou, region, keeping to the water catchment scrub into, seen in? Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. He expected to catch up with the animal with ease because of its disability but was surprised that when it became aware of his cars approach, it raced off along the roadside with incredible speed. ", Source: Gilroy, Rex. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. "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. 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 ran outside to find my cat facing off with a dog-like creature 4 times its size. She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. Before leaving they went for a walk along the rivers edge on a bush track. I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. In 2005, two German tourists to Tasmania, Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen claimed to have taken pictures of a live Tasmanian tiger. It was not a fox, wild dog or Dingo or Quoll!!. In the video above: Video shows 'Tasmanian tiger' sighting in Hobart, For more Lifestyle related news and videos check out Lifestyle >>. However, in 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger died, and the Thylacine was considered extinct. "2nd November 2006, 9 pm, Thursday, New Brighton; Rob was fishing at Casons Road, New Brighton, when they saw an unusual animal. But it was so fast, it passed by unscathed. "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. He says the animal also has short feet like a Tasmanian tiger and shiny hocks, with evidence of striping on the tail. It looked like a cross between a dog and a kangaroo. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. 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. Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extended, The animal turned to look at the women in the car. Now extinct, a Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) is seen in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1933. 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. These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. Exploring animal welfare, animal care, and the human-animal bond. Please note that I have taken the liberty of quoting liberally from all sources. 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 following day I showed the impressions to Phil Whittaker. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. It was definitely not a dog. Later, above the gully, during a detailed search for more evidence we came across tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, beside which were the smaller tracks of a young cub. ", "8th October, 2005, 12pm, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Russel saw what looked like the same animal that he saw in September and believe it may have been sitting as he only saw its head and shoulders in the grass but was struck by it having rounded ears. The creature then ran down the side of a house into scrub. I was thinking how cool it was that I'd saved a little pademelon from being eaten by something. Both were of a buff colour with distinctively rounded ears, hunched backs and remarkably long thin straight tails. We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. The monster's screams, according to one local resident, were like "a woeful cough that goes on and on, like a human being on their death bed". Some years later he saw it again at the same time and place & then his wife saw it in similar circumstances near their house. It walked, going from tree to tree, looking up into the trees. 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. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Peter, principal of Main Arm School saw what looked to him very much like a thylacine. My friend who was with me describes it as follows, it looked like a kangaroo but it walked rather than hopped. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extendedhalf way down the side of the body. It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from MegalongValley near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. 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. Trailing a Tiger. Gary is a one of the great people in this area knowing wildlife and ummm and so I was talking to him about it. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. 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. 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. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. (1968). Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. It had no spots, but it had stripes just like the long-gone Tasmanian tiger.. The front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. It's been more than 80 years since the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is believed to have gone extinct, but an enduring belief remains that the large carnivore still roams the state. A screenshot of the video was also posted to Imgur.. Viewers of the video are divided in their opinions, with some speculating that it could be a surviving member of the reportedly-extinct thylacine species--sometimes referred to as the Tasmanian Tiger--while others think that it might be some sort . Passing the Titania Motel [Oberon] sign at the Oberon turnoff, he spotted an animal with black body stripes the size of a large dog, as it ran across the Jenolan road from left to right into bush. It was an extraordinary experience, being so close to this animal. She seemed extremely curious-cautious. 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. Its buttocks were tapered toward the tail. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. Phil described the animal as having body fur of a burnt colour [ie blacky-brown], with a row of orangey-brown stripes extending barrel-wise from about mid-body to tail rump. Far longer than any dogs tail & kinda looked like a kangaroo's tail. Since then, no conclusive evidence has emerged to suggest that Tasmanian tigers still exist in the wild, and the species was declared officially extinct in 1986, the Tasmanian Government's. 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! He had a second sighting in or around 2012 (NSW.c2012.xx.xx). ", Source:Anonymous. In the series of images, the one photo Mr Waters is confident is a tiger joey, experts believe is probably a Tasmanian pademelon joey. I made all the observations with great care, hoping to discuss the animal with my colleagues, but they unfortunately had been collecting on the opposite side of the road, and had not seen it. As we were driving towards Rosebank, I saw an animal about the size of a whippet dash across a grassy slope. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. 7:30pm when in front of me on the side of the road, eating a dead kangaroo, was a medium/large long, slender dog shaped animal with a kangaroo-style tail. The database currently contains 11,166 species and subspecies (as of January 2023). The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. Black and white footage of Benjamin recorded in 1933 would become historically significant as the final images of the final Thylacine. It stood on its back legs when it saw me and stared. It stopped looked at us approaching then ran off in to the bushes. 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. Its tail was darker and it had short hair just like a roo. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. He had only just found the tracks that morning and asked Heather and I to come and inspect them. It was an animal of similar size as I saw and it passed in front of their car so close that both thought it was certain to be hit. But not everyone is convinced. The mature thylacine ranged from 100 to 130 cm long, with a tail of around 50 . The animal stood about 61cm off the. "This led to Nulkabas Max Burke telling us a yarn about a trip to Pumpkin Gully, which he said was in the wilds out from Singleton. The next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. Both times it was too difficult to see it properly, because it was travelling so quickly. Being an expert on wildlife identification he was positive that it was a thylacine. Victorian Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports Reports from other states and countries can be accessed here. That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. Abel Tasman's party recorded seeing footprints of "wild beasts having claws like a tiger" in Tasmania in 1642. Two Tasmanian tigers in captivity at the Hobart Zoo. The trap had apparently caught something, but by the time he reached the cage it was empty. It was thin and brownish and had a long thin tail. Thylacine hunter Michael Moss maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. Plaster casts were made and later matched with others found in Tasmania in 1974 whose peculiar paw structure identified them as thylacine. The highly anticipated photos of a living Tasmania tiger family have been released and the man who captured them says hes absolutely confident at least one is a thylacine. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. [reprint of an article in a previous edition (2016) of the same newsletter]. 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.". . 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. and again as it loped away in a carefree manner. The time was 3am. It was observed from head on and it loped off, almost kangaroo-like with a very unusual movement. We failed to find any other prints hereabouts, yet it is very likely that these mystery marsupial carnivores will return to the area at some stage. 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. ", "Late 2007, New Brighton; Don was driving a bus with 8 passengers between 2 and 3am when they all observed a large unusual thylacine-like carnivore eating a small animal on the road, probably a bandicoot struck by an earlier vehicle near the speed bump. It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. An Ambulance officer related this story to a colleague sometime after 1998. All products are independently selected, tested or recommended by our team of experts.If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. I tried to explain it to people for years but couldn't. At worst, it couldnt have been any more than 10 meters from me as it went tearing past, so I got a great view of it front on and in profile, and I tell you, it was one of the oddest creatures Ive ever seen! It had 10 to 12 very pale stripes across the rear portion of the body with slightly wider stripes on the back & narrower stripes on the rump. 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. These sightings do not include the most recent sightings of the last five to ten years. While they were reported to prey on poultry and sheep, this behaviour is now believed to be largely exaggerated it was also very unlikely to attack humans. The tail was thickly furred. It had short fur, very stiff, thick at the base (a long broom handle) and it didnt act like a dogs tail. The reported sightings are contained in a document from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE). This incident followed bad bushfires in the lower Blue Mountains-Grose Valley. I paint thylacines frequently and last year we had a gallery in Fletcher St Byron Bay with a thylacine on a rock with the word Imagine inscribed on the rock. It was probably heading for the nearby Grose Valley, he said.". It ran off into the vegetation adjacent the road.". He describes the animal as "as long as a Labrador with a thin tail pointing backwards". What I am certain is it wasn't is a Dog, Cat, Fox, Kangaroo. The body language of this animal was not canine. In 1938, a Thylacine was said to be shot at Mawbanna. He described it as "clear as a day". He stated that it didnt look like some unusual hybrid but a species of carnivorous marsupial. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. From a17ab7a789aa20e5c49f7f9de9dca94c364755b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: BOB603049648 603049648@qq.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:48:33 +0800 Subject: [PATCH . "Rex claimed he saw a thylacine on Tuesday, February 22, 1972 at 10.15pm on the Great Western Highway, south of Blackheath. The salted skin of a freshly shot tiger cat was pegged on the dunny door, Max said. It was not a Facebook group, and I don't remember what the organisation was called. Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. In addition to these relentless attempts to control their numbers, several other factors drove the Tasmanian tiger to its eventual extinction. Its size was that of a medium-sized dog, and the body proportions were also dog-like; it was uniformly grey-brown, with short hair; the strange tail, extremely wide at the base, seemed to be a continuation of the hindquarters; the hind leg was strongly marked with almost black horizontal stripes. However in the dense scrub we came across signs of a scuffle over a large area, between a wild pig and a thylacine, as indicated by thee dozens of tracks embedded in the soil. (1985). They decided that it could only be a Tasmanian tiger and phoned the national parks service to report the sighting and where most annoyed when they were not believed and told that they could not possibly have seen such an animal because it is extinct. He realised that only one species could answer the dog-like physical appearance of this strange animal, and that was a Tasmanian Tiger. The difference, of course, is that Sasquatch is entirely mythical, while the Tasmanian Tiger was a real marsupial that only went extinct about a hundred years ago. I thought it looked a silver colour but it was hard to tell because it was raining.", "11th April 2006, 12.30 a.m. Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Ron was driving west towards the highway and saw what looked like a thylacine as it walked along the northern side of the road. The animal turned to look at the women in the car. "On the morning of Thursday 24th March 1983, I received a phone call from Mr John Turner of Shipley, located on the west side of Blackheath close to the Kanimbla Valley cliffs. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. It came from the left hand side up the slope, crossed the road & then leapt up the bank. It would have been great if I had been able to get even one photo of the creature.", "I was driving out west of nsw 60 km west of Balranald when I came upon a tassie tiger at 2am. Its head was not dog-like; it had a short muzzle with pointy ears, a proud stance and kangaroo-like hips. It didnt taper, or wag. Max was with his father on the trip. 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. ", "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. 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. ", "6th February 2006, Mullumbimby, Left Bank Road, Sunday morning, 6:10 am; Alisha and her mother were going to the market and when they pulled out of Yankee Creek Road and went round the bend they saw a strange animal that was too big to be a cat and that was not a dog or a fox and it had stripes across the back, rounded ears & a long stiff tail.". ", "19th February 2006, 5.30 am, North Ocean Shores; John & Pat had set off from their home at New Brighton for the Pottsville Market, where they would set up a pottery & jewellery stall, and had only reached the small bridge north of Redgate Road at North Ocean Shores travelling at 50 kph when they saw 2 strange animals standing on the road. Century-old footage of the last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity has been brought to life by colourisation, offering a tantalising glimpse of the now-extinct creature. It was neither dog, nor dingo, nor wolf, and certainly not a fox. ", "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. A Victoria farmer, Peter Groves, made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. ", "20th August, 2008, Coast Road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park; David Hall emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe his sighting. ", I was past Howes Valley near Howes Mountain, on a stretch of winding road. The species was declared extinct in 1986. After looking at the cars headlights, it suddenly ran off into the bush.". It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. 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. These tracks were cast and later compared with others made from freshly-made paw prints in Tasmania with which they match up. There is a lot of bush and a lot of cover and I think it's living quite comfortably there. He described the specimen as funny looking with a big long tail and stumpy ears. Source: Lubbock, Adelaide. Story. Join the conversation, you are commenting as. I was 2-3 metres from it for several minutes. The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. The large head had a short snout and three premolars on both jaws. Another report given to Samantha came from a woman called Gail who worked at Durrumbul preschool and who had seen one crawl from beneath the preschool building and walk in a hopping way. In the nearby dense scrub, we came across signs of a scuffle between a wild pig and a Thylacine, as indicated by the dozens of tracks embedded in the soil over a wide area. There was also a rock shelter some distance off the rough, 4-wheel drive trail we were on, where we came across pigmy-size ochre paintings. Then it just loped off the road into the yardbetween the two properties. "We live on a sugar cane farm close to Murwillumbah in North Eastern NSW. ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. Without hesitation, he put down his soup spoon, seized his gun from the wall, pushed a couple of cartridges into . Pam noticed what looked like pale stripes across the back. 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. Then a car passed it and the animal ran off into the bush from where it had emerged.". ", "Early 2008 late 2007, Repentance Creek Rd at the Minyon Falls turnoff. The encounter lasted in full no more than 15 seconds. Neuroglia-The Alternative Model of the Brain, NGS, Sanger & PacBio sequencing in Antibody Drug Discovery, Avian influenza: common questions and answers regarding transmission to mammals, You Really Should Talk to Your Plants Especially If Youre a Woman, Biological Crop Steering the Next Step in Controlled Cultivation. "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. ", "16th November, 1997, Sunday, 7-30 a.m. at Lennox Head; between Seven Mile Beach and Lake Ainsworth, near Camp Drew, Paul and his partner observed from their car, only 1 metre away, a dog-sized animal with black stripes down its back and rump with one stripe across the base of the tail. 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. (2017). (1811). I saw it for about 5 seconds as it crossed a remote dirt road. Like most marsupials, the female had a pouch hence the scientific name Thylacinus Cynocephalus meaning dog-headed pouched-dog. Another search of the farm and its surrounds failed to turn up anything new, and the creature did not return.". 5 BEST Tasmanian Tiger Sightings Caught On VIDEO and I review them to see what I think they ACTUALLY are! All Rights Reserved. In Tasmania, the Thylacine was most predominant along the north and east coast, and in the midland plains region. 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