"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
I just don't think there are any large undiscovered mammals, anywhere on the earth. Occasionally someone finds a new whale species or similar large animal in the ocean, but that's going to be about it.
I've been in some fairly remote places, and it's just not that hard to find evidence of man exploring them. Now maybe there is indeed a TazTiger population hanging on in a remote area, but it's been too long, and even in Oz, lots of people explore the wild places.
Great news, if correct. Looks to be the real deal. I've been an admirer of the Tasmanian Wolf since I was a kid, and have always hoped they somehow still existed deep in the bush.
This is a photo of the last known to live for sure ... officially believed to be the last of its species.
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.
Since you are over there in that part of the world, I will relate a curious incident while on the island of New Guinea. Worked on a mining job and we had a number of Aussie "bunny huggers" come in and do wildlife research near our operation. We ususally provided quite a bit of support and I had dinner with them on occasion. We had a community liason guy who spoke the native language and he got the Aussies connected up with the locals for help with their gear, porters and guides.
After one trip they came back and were all excited about finding a new type of tree kangaroo. It was a big deal for them. Never been seen or captured before.
It seems that they were paying the locals to go out and bring in fauna to them. Not a big deal, everybody was happy and they ended up with two new tree kangaroos. Great.
Then a few weeks later the community liason guy comes to me and is all excited. He said he described a Tasmanian tiger to the locals and they said they knew all about it, even had a name for it and did he want them to "go get one."
I told him no and under no circumstances did I want a dead thylacine dumped on my doorstep.
We never pursued it but the guy was convinced that the tiger was still in the mountain forests of New Guinea.
IDK if there ever was any tigers on the island but he was a believer.
I do believe there may still be Tigers, but that looked like a fox to me.
Have also heard of Thylacines being in Irian Jaya, was a program on it, but nothing found.
Funny how people that hunt here have rarely seen a Quoll, but they are not rare, although I have only seen one. Was a university study of a forest near here (Watagan Mountains) that concluded there were actually Quolls there! Surprise, the locals living around there said yes, and they steal our chickens! Always know they were there....
I just don't think there are any large undiscovered mammals, anywhere on the earth. Occasionally someone finds a new whale species or similar large animal in the ocean, but that's going to be about it.
I've been in some fairly remote places, and it's just not that hard to find evidence of man exploring them. Now maybe there is indeed a TazTiger population hanging on in a remote area, but it's been too long, and even in Oz, lots of people explore the wild places.
Actually, there have been a few medium to large land mammals discovered in recent years, or rediscovered after being presumed extinct. The Vu Quang Ox (Saola) for example, first photographed only a few years ago, or the Kabomani Tapir, whose discovery was announced in 2013.
I don't think the video is of a Thylacine, but there are some pretty remote and inaccessible parts of its former range, especially in southwest Tasmania, where it isn't entirely impossible a relict population could exist.
Funny how people that hunt here have rarely seen a Quoll, but they are not rare, although I have only seen one. Was a university study of a forest near here (Watagan Mountains) that concluded there were actually Quolls there! Surprise, the locals living around there said yes, and they steal our chickens! Always know they were there....
In 40-odd years of hunting IIRC I've only seen two that I could identify with certainty, both near where my family own land near Gloucester NSW. They certainly do seem to be a critter that keeps out of the limelight.
There again, ask most non-hunters and they've probably never seen much more obvious critters, like the various species of deer.
Funny how people that hunt here have rarely seen a Quoll, but they are not rare, although I have only seen one. Was a university study of a forest near here (Watagan Mountains) that concluded there were actually Quolls there! Surprise, the locals living around there said yes, and they steal our chickens! Always know they were there....
In 40-odd years of hunting IIRC I've only seen two that I could identify with certainty, both near where my family own land near Gloucester NSW. They certainly do seem to be a critter that keeps out of the limelight.
There again, ask most non-hunters and they've probably never seen much more obvious critters, like the various species of deer.
Some interesting things in the Tops there. I saw one on the western side near Muswellbrook. Not uncommon apparently.
Gloucester is a very nice area and spend a bit of time around there.
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