Originally posted by 2theC
yes
they are here ( i am in Tassie)

i have had around 20 different storys from the people who have actually seen and or heard the thylacine and on top of that, i am 99% sure that i have experienced their strange cry/howl/yap near my house, twice. Both times at the same time of year and both times my dog became very anxious and growled, which for her ( a lovely fat lab) is way, way out of character. I had the hairs on my neck stand up as i could hear 'her' ( i am assuming) making her way up the creek bed about a km from my house.
( by the way, a farmer was shooting wallabies several years before in the same area and had one in his spotlight. before he could finish his philosophical thoughts on shooting it, so people believed him, or not it was gone!)

i have heard so many story's from people of all ages that have seen them.
the funny thing is they tell you, but quietly.
Here in Tasmania if you have seen, one you are careful who you tell. People are scared to be called crazy. You can be ostracized in your community if you go about telling everyone what you have seen, so you only tell the people who you know will believe you.
There are so many sightings which never, never see the light of day.
On top of that there are so many sightings which are reported but never revealed because of sinister intentions.
its sad, the Thylacine seems to be the silent meat in a sandwich of a battle here that has been raging for decades.

Why do we not hear more ?
There is a conspiracy here...i am sure. I will maybe start a thread about later...

[edit on 12-6-2009 by 2theC]

Hi 2theC

First - thanks to all who mentioned and linked to Where Light Meets Dark - much appreciated. Although I have not actively updated the site in several months, I have started a Facebook page - http://(link tracking not allowed)/fb-wlmd <- wow .. hard to share links here! The missing part is: b i t . l y (but without the spaces)

Second - the Emmerichs photos. I have them and did an extensive analysis, but I also pulled them off my site when Klaus requested it. I will think about republishing the photos. I'm planning to re-do the website's back-end (the engine running it). If so, it will be much simpler for me to make site updates in future. Alternatively, I could put them into the Facebook galleries at the page.

Third - 2theC, I hear you. I think you've basically summed up the truth about sightings in Tas. There are far more sightings than get reported, but as you say - people will be careful about who they talk to, if at all. I am very interested to hear more about your sightings (audio) and those of the people you know. You can reach my via my website, or find my personal name in the comments on the Facebook page and send me a message through Facebook.

Fourth - I'm heading back to Tas this month. I have 7 cameras to collect in order to wrap up my search. One has been in the field for nearly 2 years (no doubt with very dead batteries). The other six have been out for a year and all within a few kilometres of the footprint Michael and I found at the start of 2009. As you say (2theC) - both your experiences were at the same time of year. I know of 2 pre-extinction accounts that suggest the thylacine was migratory and Tigerman talks about it in his e-book too. This is why we put 6 cameras out near where we found our possible footprint.

And fifth - I have just published photos of our footprint, on the Facebook page. This is the one that was shown at the end of the Monster Quest episode "Isle of the Lost Tiger". I've got some detailed notes on there. I have to be honest - nobody has agreed with me that it matches the thylacine. Several people have said that the illustrations I compared it with are not accurate illustrations of thylacine prints (but I'm still convinced our print matches those illustrations very well). And several people have said it's a wombat print. I see no evidence whatsoever for wombat claws, but people argue the soft mud filled in the claws. I'll leave it with you to make up your own mind. It'll be fun checking out the photos from 7 cameras in any case!

Cheers - and hope to see you on Facebook.

Chris.
http://(link tracking not allowed)/fb-wlmd <- wow .. hard to share links here! The missing part is: b i t . l y (but without the spaces)
Where Light Meets Dark

hi,

does anyone know how this Thyclacine broke its front leg?

Originally posted by fooffstarr
The Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) - Alive And Well?

Arkive.com

hi,

does anyone know how this Thyclacine broke its front leg? Its broken and healed front leg would of affected its movement.

i lived on the west coast of tasmania half my life and until a couple years ago had been deer hunting in tasmania over the year ( now anti hunting s.. i have been in some rugged country where roo shooters genrally do not go and have never seen anything that would make me think they still exhist. but thats only my personel veiw. i sure hope they do and there would have to be a small chance one would think that there may be some small numbers around tasmania and the mainland even.


J

...beautiful critters... hope theres still some out there...

...silly question time, lol... i'm not an aussie, never been there - but - i've long been fascinated with parts of it (ayers rock, aboriginal stories, poisonous snake population)... i've often wondered if the snake population has increased since the thylacine was exterminated... i've never read that snake was on their diet plan - but - (shrug) still wonder if that has a connection...

I used to live near the Grampians in Victoria. There was a Cougar who many people had seen through a certain time period.

Apparently it was a mascot from an American Air force group based here that was either "released" (accidently / purposefully), or had escaped.

The issue with these things (and by things I mean extinctions of large mammals) is that you don't just need one to be alive... you need a breeding population. At this point there would need to have been at least a handful of them around when we *thought* that they were extinct for a population to still be around. And even assuming that is true, the species would have totally bottlenecked and could have had some major genetic inbreeding issues.

If there were a couple that survived in that huge expanse of land, that doesn't mean that any are alive today. And even if one or two old ones are staggering around (lifespan is 8 years, by the way, marsupials don't live long) that by no means says that the species is good to go.

Hi,
Im from tassie, i live in the bush, and for those that "believe" that these animals can not exist, well, where i live there is bushland that is practically inaccessible, unless you want to get dropped off by a helicopter lol.

Here's a kicker, about 15 years ago an uncle of mine previously lived up bush (back end of the NW coast) he hand fed a female, atleast twice a week for about 4 months, even had a polaroid at one stage.

I hold the Tasmania Tiger close to my heart, as an Aussie it's nice to have an animal that "may be" still out there.

I've got friends who used to live in Tasmania, and have told stories about seeing things they weren't sure what they were. Probably something mundane, but it's nice to dream.

Originally posted by Versa

hi,

does anyone know how this Thyclacine broke its front leg? Its broken and healed front leg would of affected its movement.

Honestly it looks to me like a wound sustained by getting its foreleg caught in some form of snap trap.{Small version of a bear trap} Then after capture it healed with a fair amount of scar tissue and bone growth.




On a personal note: I hope there are still some out there that have survived and are living freely the way they were meant to.