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Post by youcantry on Aug 27, 2012 12:43:41 GMT 10
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Post by ami on May 2, 2013 20:08:08 GMT 10
I believe I saw a thylacine a couple years back when driving from Pemberton to Perth. Just a quick flash as it turned from the roadside and fled into the bush, but unmistakeable. I never really believed my eyes until coming across the topic recently and hearing of other WA sightings. Its quite exciting to know that this creature is still around - and not just in Tasmania!
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Post by youcantry on May 3, 2013 11:58:58 GMT 10
Hi ami, and welcome to the forums. Yes, south-west Western Australia has been a hotspot for many years, and some of the most credible colour photos of a thylacine originate from there (search for Kevin Cameron's photos). Can you provide us with any more info? Do you know which year that was, and maybe more exactly the location? I hope you join up with a membership and keep the discussion going with us  Chris. |
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Post by Skillet on Jan 6, 2014 5:24:09 GMT 10
Fascinating!
I live in Burnet County, Texas, and have found cougar tracks in my pasture four times, (once, a female with two cubs) although I've only met one person who's actually seen one.
Am convinced that the Thylacine yet exists
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 7:18:55 GMT 10
Thats great, do you recon you could get mme a couger skull please.
Once when visiting Vancouver Island, I went with a hunter on a wolf survey. We got trapped by a truckload of inebrieated indiginary deer poachers. I sent them on their way with a couple of cat screams. Sure was bad medicine to that mob.
Regards Bushcat
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Post by seth24 on Jan 7, 2014 12:23:45 GMT 10
 just came over this ,regarding man claiming to have killed bigfoot with picture enclosed what do qestors think? another hoax maybe? hope this comes out as unable to work out to post. cheers seth |
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Post by Todd S. on Jan 7, 2014 13:01:23 GMT 10
Yeah, this guy is a notorious con artist/hoaxer.
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Post by Grant on Sept 8, 2014 19:10:06 GMT 10
As everyone on this blog has already mentioned, Cranbourne is a fast developing suburb. However you should be aware that not far away on the other side of the race course, is a 1000 acres of natural bush and protected areas. This is part of a preserve for the Southern Brown bandicoot amongst other things and in places is impenetrable sword grass thickets etc. When discussing plausibility of sightings in Cranbourne, this location may help to support the claims being made about sightings there.
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Post by molloch on Sept 8, 2014 19:39:56 GMT 10
The area of bush that Grant is talking about is a great place to spot Southern Brown Bandicoots. Also, in the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, in the picnic area close to the highway away from the cafe, the bandicoots are pretty accustomed to humans, and appear mid afternoon to scrounge for dropped picnic scraps.
Bandicoots are pretty scarce around Victoria, this is one of the few places you can reliably find them. Well worth a visit.
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Post by youcantry on Oct 1, 2014 16:40:38 GMT 10
Bandicoots are pretty scarce around Victoria, this is one of the few places you can reliably find them. That's because the thylacines are eating all the cats and foxes ;D |
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Post by SonOfMoss on Jul 10, 2015 8:51:33 GMT 10
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 10, 2015 14:08:15 GMT 10
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Post by saggitarius on Jul 13, 2015 14:23:39 GMT 10
Hey Ith, are those gold medals you are awarding or is my screen too small to what the emoticon is? If it's medals, I agree.
Back on topic. I received a fairly reliable report of a thylacine seen in open farmland near Metung, Gippsland Lakes. Family doesn't want to highlight the matter for fear of ridicule but one member felt it should be reported to someone, so informed me.
It is the first thylacine sighting in Lakes area I have heard for a few years. Used to be commonplace to hear reports in a former life but I am a bit out of the loop nowadays so maybe people are still seeking them.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 13, 2015 18:10:51 GMT 10
Hey Ith, are those gold medals you are awarding or is my screen too small to what the emoticon is? If it's medals, I agree. It's ROFLs mate |
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 13, 2015 18:15:09 GMT 10
... I received a fairly reliable report of a thylacine seen in open farmland near Metung, Gippsland Lakes. Family doesn't want to highlight the matter for fear of ridicule but one member felt it should be reported to someone, so informed me.
It is the first thylacine sighting in Lakes area I have heard for a few years. Used to be commonplace to hear reports in a former life but I am a bit out of the loop nowadays so maybe people are still seeking them. Have an idea Cleeland's put that one on FB already. If this character 'Mossy' is involved I'd dismiss it for that reason alone. If it's Cranbourne, ffs, I'd dismiss it with ROFLs  |
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Post by saggitarius on Jul 14, 2015 9:46:49 GMT 10
Have had a look at Mike Cleeland's Facebook page but can't see anything relating to this Metung sighting which occurred in the last month I believe. Metung is 250KM or more away from Mike's haunts.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jan 6, 2017 16:18:52 GMT 10
I've heard of an alternative-history work (unfortunately, don't know any details) with a premise of the 19th-century British upper crust taking to thylacines as pets -- every nobleman / country gentleman in England worth his salt, wants one or a couple or a whole pack: under the impetus of this great demand, ways are found to get them to breed; the lower orders come to imitate the gentry re this fashion, and the species takes off hugely in domestication. One feels, it might have happened -- only it didn't... There's a Forum thread from long ago where a Thylacine report came in from India. Of all places!  It was a pretty good description, too. A close up encounter as I recall. Kerala state rings a bell. As the story unfolded a theory took shape that maybe the local Rajah bought a breeding pair of thylas for his private zoo - menageries were fashionable in the days of the Raj. It's well known how Thyacines were shipped from Tassie to London and on into Europe, Germany especially. Back when Britannia ruled the waves, a British cargo ship naturally would have stopped off at India. So yeah, " it might have happened". The opportunity definitely would have been there ... A chance to give Google a spin with them booleans that got a mention in another thread? --> intext:thylacine AND India|Kerala site:thylacoleo.proboards.com
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Post by Tasmanian thylacines on Jan 8, 2017 5:01:49 GMT 10
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Post by Tasmanian thylacines on Jan 12, 2017 2:34:23 GMT 10
m.facebook.com/wherelightmeetsdark/ Interesting footage taken somewhere in the 70's probably. First I thought it was a mangy fox or dog. Not the clearest footage, but the gait is a little bit strange. Could be an injury to the animal of course, but why would anyone film it if they didnt think it was something special ?
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Post by youcantry on Jan 16, 2017 11:36:10 GMT 10
why would anyone film it if they didnt think it was something special ? Hypothetically: It's the 1970s. I just got my first 8mm camera. I'm standing in the field when an animal runs by. That's so cool! Click, whirrrrrr... filming! Could be any of a million reasons. |
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