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Post by milesfromqld on Feb 8, 2015 10:43:40 GMT 10
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Post by dennisw on Feb 8, 2015 20:24:25 GMT 10
Shame it is so far from me, a recent close encounter like this would be a good opportunity for an interested local to get out for a look. Don't be nervous they don't normally attack people unless cornered, but a good camera might get something useful at 25 metres.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Feb 8, 2015 20:50:23 GMT 10
Good one MilesFromQueensland. Dunno what to make of this stuff - just when you give up all hope and say it's all a myth, along comes another sighting. * I s'pose it'd be considered downright sexist and un-PC to say anything about chasing the blonde babe thru the bushes?  |
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Post by Surroundx on Feb 8, 2015 21:33:39 GMT 10
Don't be nervous they don't normally attack people unless cornered Seems to me to lend support to the hypothesis that these creatures aren't true exotic big cats. There would be far more attacks otherwise. As it stands I'm only aware of one which was recounted on an Animal X episode, and some musings for want of a better phrase by Williams & Lang in their book Australian Big Cats about the cats being responsible for some of the missing people reported here and in New Zealand (from memory). |
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Post by dennisw on Feb 9, 2015 10:35:43 GMT 10
Good one MilesFromQueensland. Dunno what to make of this stuff - just when you give up all hope and say it's all a myth, along comes another sighting. * I s'pose it'd be considered downright sexist and un-PC to say anything about chasing the blonde babe thru the bushes? It would be sexist; but totally understandable. |
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Post by youcantry on Feb 13, 2015 13:15:23 GMT 10
I'd be happy to look and put out cameras if someone could put me in touch with the witnesses.
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Post by dennisw on Feb 13, 2015 14:57:13 GMT 10
You might get some help and support if you were to ring the Illawarra Mercury, it would help their story.
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Post by milesfromqld on Feb 17, 2015 18:27:21 GMT 10
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Post by milesfromqld on Feb 17, 2015 18:33:43 GMT 10
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Post by mingle on Feb 17, 2015 19:17:10 GMT 10
I'd say those tracks are pretty unambiguously canine...
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Post by molloch on Feb 18, 2015 8:24:33 GMT 10
Absolutely a dog.
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Post by mat on Mar 9, 2015 16:52:41 GMT 10
About 8 years ago i was within 3 metres from a big black cat. I was in the bush in S.A at the currorong on a forest track looking for a quiet spot to camp the night and a jet black cat waist high walked casually past the front of my car. The body size and color could only be spotted as a black panther. But, i was so close to it that i could see that its head was too round to be that of a panther. I think it was the wildtype cat perhaps 1000 generations of the feral domesticated cat. If i was 10 or 20 metres away from it, i would have said that its a panther...but being so close it it i could see the resemblence to that of a feral cat. This animal was laterally flattened like a panther but its face was no that of a panther. It was good to see. It made no threathening behaviours. I was driving almost silently around 10km/hr on a narrow track around 4pm in the afternoon.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Mar 14, 2015 20:19:51 GMT 10
Good stuff Mat. Surprised no comments so far.
Do yo mean the Coorong scrub in SA? Or the Currarong peninsula near Jervis Bay?
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Post by mat on Dec 13, 2015 10:11:19 GMT 10
In south australia Ian. I was driving along the coast road from melbourne to adelaide at the time. cheers
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Post by Isengard on Dec 14, 2015 3:21:55 GMT 10
Fascinating. I assume this was definitely a placental feline and not a marsupial cat???
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Post by Ian Thomas on Dec 15, 2015 17:31:26 GMT 10
In south australia Ian. I was driving along the coast road from melbourne to adelaide at the time. cheers Been alot of thylacine sightings in the Coorong going back many decades. It's almost a 'traditional' thyla encounter zone.  Which is curious seeing as the most recent sub(?) fossil mainland remains of thylas are found on the SE coast. Likewise Tassie Devils. Professional palaeos like Molloch prolly know more than me. |
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