Possible sighting of a Tasmanian tiger

2016.

The article says it happened Jan. 4,2019.

Donald Jr and Eric are putting together a hunting expedition as we type!

Why would anyone capture it?

Because there are assholes who would love to capture and kill an endangered animal.

The head doesn't look like it matches the body, but they both look like a thylacine.

It had been speculated that some survived on the Australian mainland due to being kept in private menageries.

And eat them, r5.

Chupacabra

Oh God. I was a kid when that Chupacabra craze happened lmao

They should close the area, and send in some trustworthy wildlife biologists, if anyone.

The best thing they could possibly do is keep people out of the area forever, and give the poor beast a chance to reproduce without any grief from us, but what are the odds that they actually will.

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No, there are no more. They would find evidence of it such as bones or scat droppings. Better off looking for a passenger pigeon or a ivory billed woodpecker.

It turned out to be a Chinese woman from Hobart.

It looks more like a coatamundi to me, although the area is way off.

The YouTube says "4/11/2016."

r12 I think they are extinct, & the video has to be doctored, because if it isn't they're alive. That is a thylacine, no question.

I don't agree they necessarily would have found scat/tracks. I've been fascinated by these animals since I was a child, and I've read a lot over the years. All the descriptions of the possible habitat area include large, isolated tracts that most outsiders don't see. Those traces would easily be naturally destroyed before humans could get a chance to verify them. The locals allegedly have a contact number for a few wildlife biologists who will discreetly investigate any evidence, and keep their locations/names out of the public domain. The obvious problem is the time lapse between sighting and investigation. There have been "credible reports" over the years, but nothing definitive.

With mobiles being as good as they are now, I think a good video would've surfaced if they were still alive.

R11, I will never understand the need to hunt, stuff or skin an animal for sport.

I don't know. I only hope that there's still a chance for these wonderful creatures. It's a tragedy that we ever lost them in the first place. Our species can be so incredibly stupid.

I read that it's highly likely that there are still thylacines in Papua New Guinea, but they are in too remote of an area to check it out properly. Tribespeople of the area are apparently aware of them.

There have been thylacine spotted over the years. And no, not like Big Foot sightings. Documented. They need to be given a protected environment I which to procreate, flourish, and be FABULOUS!

If there were any left they would've either been spotted, left a trace or died out from lack of appropriate partners.

You need quite a few to have a viable population which means they WILL leave a trace. If only say six or ten are left, they won't live long because they will inbreed and that will be their demise. These things have been gone now for over 75 years.

Bring back the Barbary lions, too.

r21 doesn't that depend in part on the remoteness from humans & size of appropriate habitat? (Theoretically, it's not impossible--although I think they're gone.)

I also don't remember how many offspring they have. Being marsupials I imagine complicates matters.

"If there were any left they would've either been spotted, left a trace or died out from lack of appropriate partners. "

I don't think that's true of Tasmania, and it's certainly not true of New Guinea. Certainly New Guinea is largely genuine wilderness, as in there are no roads and much of the country is completely inaccessible to civilized people. Not to mention it's rain forest, where remains of anything vanish quickly. I believe Tasmania is also thinly populated enough that wildlife that wished to avoid humans could do so easily enough, I believe there is still a vast amount of this rocky scrubland where humans don't go or hardly ever go, I mean look at this landscape and imagine there's the skeleton of a Tasmanian tiger under one of those bushes. Would you ever find it?

No, I'm saving the "where are the remains" argument for Bigfoot, which is supposed to inhabit moderately well populated parts of the US.

I have to agree with the Daily Mail commenters on this one. The farmer claims the animal was unafraid of him and sat there for 5 minutes, yet all he has to show for it is one conveniently grainy photo? You'd think someone would be excitedly snapping tons of pics and recording video if they actually came across one.

"Hope” is the thing with feathers "

A quote from Emily Dickinson, and also, a very good book, which I highly recommend. I hope (so very much) that this species has survived. I don't believe it, but I will cling on to every possible hope for it. Sometimes, don't you want to be proven wrong?

[Quote] I read that it's highly likely that there are still thylacines in Papua New Guinea, but they are in too remote of an area to check it out properly. Tribespeople of the area are apparently aware of them.

Well they could do a lot worse.

It is an interesting video but I don't think there are any left, sadly. A great creature my fucking nation destroyed, and should be ashamed. If there is some alive, and there has to be more than one as the last one died decades ago, then a small pack somewhere in the Tasmania wilderness is possible, but there would have to be enough to breed over decades.

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Nothing has made me hate a group of people like that dog meat festival.

I saw a Great Auk and it was eating an Ivory Billed Woodpecker. I didn't know which one to shoot.

Don't worry, if this is found to be a Tasmanian tiger, human will do everything in its power to kill it.

Humans really have ruined the planet, haven't they?

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