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Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

imastawka — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 02:40:45 GMT

An amateur photographer has captured what he believes was a Tasmanian tiger running across a field in South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.

A video of the alleged sighting was uploaded to YouTube earlier this week and shows a silhouetted, four-legged animal galloping across a paddock.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/tasmanian-tiger-filmed-galloping-across-farmland/ar-BBE0AWf?li=AAavLaF&ocid=spartanntp

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 03:19:36 GMT

I saw this and the way it moves, can't think of anything else it could be.

How exciting to think a small community of TT's could have been living in remote areas of the mainland after all this time.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

ecar3483 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 03:26:54 GMT

It could well be...

Of course my theory is that it's a kangaroo, moving on all fours, keeping it's head down because it knows there's shooters about, ha ha.

🙂

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

flashie* — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 04:24:02 GMT

It looks more like the elusive Tasmanian fox.......

On a serious not...........I would take a guess at a dog that is limping.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

imastawka — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 04:38:52 GMT

Awww, don't spoil the fun, Flashie

We'd all like to see the Tassie Tiger again.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

icyfroth — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 05:13:10 GMT

@kopenhagen5 wrote:
I saw this and the way it moves, can't think of anything else it could be.

How exciting to think a small community of TT's could have been living in remote areas of the mainland after all this time.

I agree it would be exciting, but probably wishful thinking.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 05:21:42 GMT

On taking a second look, quite possible a dingo with a sore foot.

The snout looks a little long but appears to be looking away to one side.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

imastawka — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 05:33:38 GMT

I found the video on YouTube for those who don't want to click on the link.

And besides it's easier to have another look without clicking on the link

Full screen is best.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

chameleon54 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 05:36:07 GMT

Many years ago I was sitting around a campfire with a local " dogger " employed by the government to control dingoes and wild dogs in the remote S.A national parks. He was a real outback bushy type who lived off the land and drove a battered Toyota Land Cruiser ute. He claimed to have trapped an unusual animal resembling a tassie tiger which had stripes on its hind quaters. He sent the skull to the S.A museum for identification. ( apparently the skulls where the method of identification used to identify dog breeds 30 years ago before DNA became fashionable. ). The results came back as an unknown animal that did not match any known dog type creatures.

There have been other stories of tassie tiger type sightings by reputable locals in the area.

On a slightly different note, a close friend of mine who is one of the most succesful and respected farmers in the district was out roo shooting one night, when he and others in the vehicle spotted a large 1.5 metre long Puma type black cat scavenging on a dead sheep. There have been 4wd tourists report similar sightings which are noted in google searches.

And just to get a little weirder, a close relative of mine who is one of the straightest shooting, sceptical types you would ever meet was out shooting with friends in a very remote area of S.A when a flying saucer landed on a hill nearby. .........And no he doesnt drink or smoke anything at all................He doesnt like to talk about it because it is just to strange ........,..but............

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

mloreason — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 07:10:06 GMT

I think it's a dog. Or maybe a kanga like ecar suggested. There have been tons of reported sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. If they really still existed someone would have better evidence by now.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

ecar3483 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 09:05:57 GMT

The possum who lives here is carrying a little one in the her pouch at the moment.

When she walks, she waddles, and on the one occasion I've seen her run, it was with a loping gait similar to the beast in the video.

Going out on a limb, completely... This is pure conjecture, given that a possum is the size of a house cat, and a thylacine is the size of big dog, "But they're both marsupials..." it could be that the beast in the video is female thylacine with a young one in her pouch, moving at a decent speed...

The young are carried in a pouch, set in the lower abdomen, and that affects the way the legs work because the young one presses against the pelvis and the hip joints.

Or it could be a dog with a sore foot...

It's a wild guess, based on similarity, but that's like saying an oak tree and a cherry tree are the same because they both lose their leaves in Winter.

It's a "maybe" scenario.

But wouldn't it be great if it was a female with a young one...?

😉

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

mloreason — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 09:35:33 GMT

I have a house on nsw south coast. 10 mins from the beach, surrounded by bush. Have a possum feeder on the deck ad regular possum visitors. I can actually walk right over to them while they are standing on the possum feeder eating. Anyway once a mother possum turned up with her baby. Mother possum very protective so when I walked out on the deck baby possum jumped oto her back and they sped off into the trees. It was amazing to watch.

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

ecar3483 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:20:37 GMT

I've "met", in an informal sense, the little possum - Mum stood upright, facing me, and there in the middle of her belly was a black, hairy patch - someone's back, or shoulder, I think, ha ha.

There'll be more to see when there's more to see.

We have breakfast every (her) morning, so I'm going to meet it one way or another.

It's a shame that the photographer couldn't have got over to where the "dog" walked, and got photos of tracks.

I know, it's a very big ask...

🙂

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

go-tazz — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 11:52:14 GMT

@kopenhagen5 wrote:
I saw this and the way it moves, can't think of anything else it could be.

The way it moves is actually down to a problem with one of the back legs,(it's "stiffened" which has probably

happened due to some injury to the foot,leg or shoulder).

You see the same when a dog has a broken/injured back leg,ligament damage or even hip displacia?

Possibly caught in a trap,a fence,broken/sprained in a hole or another way.

That's why it "hops" on three legs,(trying to protect the other leg).

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 12:20:43 GMT

Yes, I noticed that on the second look.

So my guess would be a dog or dingo with an injury.

Besides your from Tassie so your the expert.

(Or are you from Vic ?)

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

imastawka — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 12:53:25 GMT

He's from Vic.....and you're all Killjoys

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

ecar3483 — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:32:05 GMT

The characteristic stripe pattern, bent hind legs, long snout, curving tail...

Yes, it could only be...

A Very Big numbat...

🙂

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

mloreason — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:12:45 GMT

Very big lol

Re: Is this a Tasmanian Tiger?

tasfleur — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:10:54 GMT

No no no! You are all wrong .... THIS is the latest picture of the Tasmanian tiger taken last week ...