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in australia we dont have any 'bigfoot'I reckon it's Bigfoot.
they are called bunyips
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in australia we dont have any 'bigfoot'I reckon it's Bigfoot.
in australia we dont have any 'bigfoot'
they are called bunyips
Thylacine footage from South Australia 1973. It's running style and tail look kind of thylacine-ish but hard to tell.
Another, more recent (2010)organization, headed by Thomas Mendelson of Miami USA, is the Thylacine Recovery and Propagation Project (TRAPP). Their group has been actively investigating reports and interviewing native tribes-persons in remote regions of West Papua, Indonesia for several years. The evidence collected so far is encouraging. Further evidence obtained in Jan.2014 has prompted Mendelson to plan a return expedition to a very remote, undisclosed region of West Papua where he firmly believes Thylacines still exist to this day. The expedition will take place in mid 2014. The expedition's goal will be to bring back irrefutable photographic and physical proof..and as Mendelson was quoted as saying "It's my intention to capture a live one, or two, if the opportunity presents itself..They are here, and I'm 100% positive I can get the proof needed to convince even the most rabid skeptics!" The Thylacine Re-Discovery and Propagation Project even has a Facebook page.
Yep big mouth.
Reason I asked where the footage was taken is that it seems to be a hilly area, this could be either Adelaide hills, Flinders ranges, or maybe Port Lincoln, SA is a very flat place, I tried to read the sign the animal ran past but it's too blurry, it actually looks like the Grampians or somewhere similar.It's still very doubtful, but this footage is as close as I've come to thinking it may be a Thylacine. As you say, it has the correct running style and build, and it's difficult to completely rule it out. Plus I personally believe South Australia/SA-Vic border would be the most likely place they could still be living.
Well it's not hard to believe they survived into the 40's and 50's, possibly even if to the 70's. But to still be surviving now, in populations large enough to keep them going all this time...probably too unlikely for that to happen in such secrecy.Genetic diversity would be an issue. If there are any left, chances are the population is so low that it is likely to die out soon anyway.
It's still very doubtful, but this footage is as close as I've come to thinking it may be a Thylacine. As you say, it has the correct running style and build, and it's difficult to completely rule it out. Plus I personally believe South Australia/SA-Vic border would be the most likely place they could still be living.
I know that area of the world quite well.Why is that? Keen to know.
There's plenty of fossil records in the area that suggest they lived around there, but in my opinion it's no where near isolated enough that there would be no sightings of it.I know that area of the world quite well.
Im not sure which area in particular the robbyroy is referring to, but the lower Glenelg national park seems to have the sort of habitat that a tiger may like.
Its a large piece of bush, pretty isolated, not much in the way of human interference. There are some areas that are not heavily treed that may be suitable for a tiger to hunt prey.
Yeah pretty much. From Adelaide down to Warrnambool there are countless national parks and reserves. As Bulldog says, there are also lots of open areas which would suit Thylacines. Basically, huge areas of isolated bushland combined with open grasslands which would provide both hunting and hiding areas for Thylacines. That, and the fact that the fossil records show they have existed there, leads me to believe it would be the most likely place now. But like hellboy, I find it very unlikely nothing has been categorically found or seen.I know that area of the world quite well.
Im not sure which area in particular the robbyroy is referring to, but the lower Glenelg national park seems to have the sort of habitat that a tiger may like.
Its a large piece of bush, pretty isolated, not much in the way of human interference. There are some areas that are not heavily treed that may be suitable for a tiger to hunt prey.
Its between Portland & Mt Gambier, near Dartmoor (Jeremy Cameron country)
Boffins believed the dingo may have eaten the thylacine off the mainland being a food competitor and direct predator. There being no dingoes in Tassie, this was considered possible. Later research came up with other ideas.They did. Unfortunately they got wiped out there first as well.
Interesting ethical perspective. And I'm not being facetious. It'd be interesting to see how they'd cope in the environment after a lull like that.I think they're extinct everywhere. Hopefully they can be regenerated using cloning and such as has been proposed with the wooly mammoth and there was an extinct breed of goat that recreated although the offspring died from an infection, I think. The Tassie Tiger is definitely an animal that deserves to be brought back. It wasn't nature's doing, it was ours.