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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 7:06:13 GMT 10
Recently I located a missing book of bush notes made by my good late mate Nev Smart. I found an entry describing how he located a thylacine with a spotlight and described the eye shine as being bright steel blue. (His words).
Also he made repeated entries how he decoyed thylas with an imitation of the call of a wedge tail eagle.
I was very familiar with this cal he made, made with a bit of bent jam tin with a hole through it.
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Post by lurcherman on Oct 29, 2014 7:30:55 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 16:44:03 GMT 10
The observations date from 1996 to 2006 or there- about.
Mention is made of meeting Peter Chapple just prior to Peter going to England.
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Post by saggitarius on Oct 30, 2014 11:18:50 GMT 10
I had an interesting read of the old thread referred to by lurcherman. It got me thinking and I had a chance meeting with a fellow who saw thylacines in Loch Sport area when living there a decade or so ago.
I knew he had put a spotlight on a thylacine a couple of times when it was lurking around behind homes backing onto Lake Reeve.
He could not remember eyeshine color but thinks that is because when he put the spotlight on them, they immediately turned the head away as if the light was too bright.
The interesting thing though is that he said that when the spotlight was directly on the animal, the stripes disappeared, but when the light was shining slightly to one side the stripes were clearly visible. Anyone else heard of that?
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Post by molloch on Oct 30, 2014 16:54:09 GMT 10
I can really only think of 2 ways that could happen:
1. The light from the torch was a similar hue to either the stripe or the non-stripe. But this wouldn't really change depending on angle - unless the light was really intense I guess??
2. He was actually seeing a three dimensional shape, such as ribs, rather than stripes. This would account for the change in angle hiding the stripes.
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