Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct?

It seems they found some droppings in the 60's and they are going to test the DNA to see if it was from one of the Tigers, plus there have been multiple sightings so they are going to reopen the case and investigate.

Tasmanian Tiger

I dont know I remember seeing a recent video somewhere that looked like one of the tigers.
I hope they are still alive, why not..
And if they are how do they stay hidden for so many years years. The last one ever seen was one in capture and it died in 1936.

Here that video

YouTube Link

theres an analysis page for that footage here
www.wherelightmeetsdark.com...
to save you the trouble theres no evidence that the footage shows a thylacine
but then again theres no real evidence that it doesn't

but heres my problem with the logic surrounding the claim that Tasmanian tigers are still around and just hiding
this ability of theirs at hiding didn't seem so remarkable when they were hunted to exctinction back in the 1930s did it

That footage actually gives a pretty good impression of a thylacine. Too bad it's only a step above "blobsquatch" in quality.

Marduk, I don't think it's "hiding", I think it's "continued to exist where they weren't hunted, and occasionally stray outside that area". Sort of like the Florida panther.

All the recent photos and video are inconclusive. There are plenty of anecdotal reports of sightings by competent observers.

And how true your logic would be IF they are exctinct. However if there abilities at hiding are as remarkable as some people say then maybe there are a few left. It is possible.

I read something a week or two ago about a creature thought exctinct but rediscovered recently. Sorry cant remember what it was maybe someone else seen it also.

We would love nothing better (down here) than for someone to discover that these unique creatures are still surviving but to be honest I believe it is very unlikely.

There have been so called sighting but nothing conclusive. What has been sighted could be anything but I doubt it is the Tiger.

[edit on 22/7/2007 by Lady of the Lake]

Unfortunately most of the footage and pictures I have seen, in my opinion,
are of foxes with chronic mange.
However I would really like the Thylocine to be alive, well and genetically viable somewhere out there in the Australian bush maybe in Tasmania itself.
I think the history that has led to its probable demise was tragic.

Sorry I meant to comment also on the post about another thought to be extinct animal, it was a species of Echidna in New Zealand.
The species are known collectively as Monotremes and include the Platypus they are unusual in that they lay eggs and yet have mostly mammalian characteristics.
The young are commonly known as Puggles, (honestly).

I did a project on Tasmanian Tigers in school and i remember a website saying that in Tasmania there are forest patches that no one has ever been into because of the thickness of the plants and that the tigers may be living in these places.

I'm going to Tasmania in a week, I'll keep an eye out for ya, who knows, i might paint a dog yellow with brown stripes and take a blurry pic of it, wow its a tazzie tiger! j/k guys i wouldn't hoax you all...knowing you guys I'd be tackled by debunkers...thats a good thing



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