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Published time: 17 Sep, 2016 16:14



Footage has emerged which apparently shows a Tasmanian Tiger roaming the wilds of southern Victoria in Australia.

The animal was declared “extinct” in 1936.

The video, which was released by the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, shows close up footage of the animal, with experts very confident it is a Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacine to give it its scientific title.

Filmed in 2008 but only released on Friday, Thylacine Awareness Group founder Neil Waters says there are a number of features which would indicate the animal is a thylacine, or a possible subspecies of it.

The Tasmanian Tiger is striped with a long stiff tail like an extended tail bone, which doesn’t wag like a dog, as well as thick neck and is much stockier than a dog or a fox, all of which Waters claims is evident in this footage.

Waters says the way the animal walks is also like that of thylacine, as opposed to a dog or fox.

According to the group, the woman who filmed the footage spotted the creature around 12 times over a period of 12 months, with its “prehistoric looking head” catching the woman’s attention.

Another aspect of the animal’s manner caught the woman’s attention too.

“I Googled how fox's urinate and they urinate like a normal dog. But this thing, backed up against one of those reeds there and just sprayed like a male cat would,” the woman said.

The woman who filmed the footage says she happened to see a thylacine and a fox in the same area on one sighting, which let her distinguish further between the two and lead her to believe it was in fact a thylacine.

Native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, the animal is thought to have gone extinct due to competition from dingoes. The last known Tasmanian Tiger died in 1936 at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in Australia, after which it was declared “extinct.”

A number of people have claimed to have spotted the animal over the years but their claims have usually been debunked, with most failing to provide video evidence.

Earlier this month, Thylacine Awareness Group also released another video of a potential thylacine sighting near someone’s house in Adelaide in South Australia.

2008? Probably was eaten by a Bigfoot.
Goner.

Interesting video. It does look a lot like a thylacine. But we'll need an actual animal in the hand to prove they still exist.

Bullshit...have a look where the tail meets the arse-end, it is completely different.

Some twit cannot tell the difference between a mangy fox and a tiger, or doesn't want to.

The problem you get when townie pricks leave the bitumen, their imagination gets the better of them.

I'm open to the possibility of a few being around. The posture of the tail in the video stands out.

GMO TIGER

Dingo with mange, filmed from a distance.

With a bad right paw...

Doesn't matter if you bend over and stick flowers up your arse, if you cannot tell what a summertime mangy fox looks and moves like you have no business getting out of a vehicle.

As for tigers, if they are anywhere it will be in Tassie as there are places there that even the black-fellas never got to, as it is too rough.

It is not a [bleep] dingo you twit.


Haven't you lot ever seen a mangy fox.

LoL!!! Don't get your knickers in a twist, it's just a Tasmanian tiger. How much is a hunting permit and what is the hunting season on those critters? Can you recommend a good taxidermist who's got experience with them??

We hear a lot of this type of crap from dills with a vested interest, generally the ones that have never been off bitumen.

Were I inclined to investigate for tigers I would go to the roughest part of Tassie and live in the bush for a few years with a camera, and a fishing rod as there is world class trout fishing to be had there.

all the experts on this site crack me up... I would like to buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Actually, I have spent the better part of fifty years wandering about the bush in Australia and I am bloody well sure I have a better idea than some ponce in America has regarding what is floating around here.

And if there were something like that around I would have shot it and taken the money, so would the thousands of other blokes that have spent years shooting roo's under a spotlight.

JS you are probably right. But this gives these wildlife huggers hope and now they can ask for money to go protect the animals and protect their habitat. Just to keep you blokes from going into the territory.
Filmed in 2008 but only released on Friday, Thylacine Awareness Group founder Neil Waters says there are a number of features which would indicate the animal is a thylacine, or a possible subspecies of it. Huh 8 years later?

That video was shot with the same camera they used on bigfoot.

LMAO, even i can tell its not a tiger.

JS you just made my point... lol everyone is an expert. just think of the money I could make!