on 09-07-2017 12:40 PM
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.
on 09-07-2017 01:19 PM
on 09-07-2017 01:26 PM
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.
🙂
on 09-07-2017 02:24 PM
It looks more like the elusive Tasmanian fox.......
On a serious not...........I would take a guess at a dog that is limping.
on 09-07-2017 02:38 PM
Awww, don't spoil the fun, Flashie
We'd all like to see the Tassie Tiger again.
on 09-07-2017 03:13 PM
@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.
09-07-2017 03:20 PM - edited 09-07-2017 03:21 PM
09-07-2017 03:32 PM - edited 09-07-2017 03:33 PM
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.
on 09-07-2017 03:36 PM
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............
on 09-07-2017 05:10 PM