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Post by james on May 18, 2012 23:18:42 GMT 10
Had my folks staying the other day and they had the book 'King of the Wilderness: The Life of Deny King'. Only had a brief look at it but it has a handy index in the back and had a few references to thylacines. Deny lived down in south west Tassie in the first half of the 20th century. Of most interest was the reference to his dog bailing up a thylacine around 1940, I think there was also mention that another fellow who worked with him saw one around then too.
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Post by seth24 on May 19, 2012 11:24:45 GMT 10
 that would be an interesting read james, especially those encounters with thylacines coming into the 40's era, and i presume both encounters were down in the south-west of the state. which could give credence to a thylacine population existing in that part of the state, into the 40's and possibly longer.  ;D
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Post by youcantry on May 19, 2012 17:13:10 GMT 10
james - can you scan or retype the story?
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Post by james on May 21, 2012 20:07:55 GMT 10
I'm afraid not as the book has moved on. It seems fairly readily available textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/king-of-the-wilderness/Although my local library doesn't have it. There seems to have been a doco made about Mr King at some stage as well: By the sounds of it he knew his wildlife well enough that if he claimed he saw a thylacine in 1940 he more than likely did. I wish I had the book handy to check the date but I am pretty confident that the sighting was in 1940 or thereabouts. |
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Post by james on May 24, 2012 22:05:42 GMT 10
I have managed to get a scanned jpg of the pages of the book I was referring to, can someone tell me the best way to post them on here and also if in doing so I am breaching any copyright?
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Post by Surroundx on Jul 27, 2012 20:03:05 GMT 10
To evade any possible copyright issues you could just email the jpeg images to forum members. I'm sure forum members would be very appreciative of your efforts |
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Post by youcantry on Aug 7, 2012 12:18:15 GMT 10
I've just ordered a copy of the book. Looking forward to it |
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Post by Surroundx on Sept 27, 2018 21:58:19 GMT 10
Photo at link: "They say that a Tasmanian tiger was seen in this stand of trees in the 1950s, a couple of decades after the last known example died in captivity. But that, I'm afraid, is another story, for another time." www.storytellerspinks.com/fieldguide/14044806 |
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that would be an interesting read james, especially those 
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