66 million years of evolution, we killed most off when early man brought canids to Australia, but we may have killed the very last ones left [took refuge in Tasmania] a century ago! 66 million years of evolution, and shortly before we got really good at conservation we may have killed the last of them! And if we did gone forever because there are NO close relatives. We can't even clone passenger pigeons, and while thylacine look like canids they are COMPLETELY different, we humans are closer related to wolfs genetically than thylacine is to wolfs!
Here's my 2 cents worth. My father as little boy, went to see the " last thylacine " at the old Hobart zoo in its cage. The one you will see in this film! , Then in late 1950s, 2 of my uncle's, on a wallaby hunt seen one! Both brilliant bushman and veteran's of ww2. Jump again to mid 1960s, my mother and father ,spot one on side of the road! As they are driving home from a holiday! Move forward to 2008, i found a perfect print in wet mud in the bush, fresh as fresh could be! What joins all these sightings is that all, are in same area. No more than 20 mins drive apart! When i looked up a book on the animal's, by Dr Eric Guilier who was, at the time leading expert, on thylacines in the world! Same area had the most bounty's paid of anywhere in Tasmania, back when farmers / government paid for every one shot or trapped!!!!!!!! So think what you like, my mind has no doubts!
@@thylacineawarenessgroupofa5886 Cheers thing that made my heart stop. When i found my track in 2008, was the 2 cleft in the pad, nothing else in Tasmania has that!
I hope and pray that solid proof is found. This is just one of God's creatures that was done wrong by the human race. I am fascinated by the thylacine.
Proof cannot determine an animal's existence. If credible people have seen them, then it shows that they are indeed still alive. It's best to leave them alone. After all, we humans do nothing but bring destruction. Also, we and the Thylacine are Mother Nature's creations, not God's.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ the problem is that it may be on the verge of extinction if it is out there, the right human interference would be a blessing; fingers crossed, who knows?
I sincerely hope you all get to find an alive thylacine in the wild. They are such beautiful animals. I hope they are still out there somewhere. Thanks for posting. I wanted to watch it but missed the last time it was posted. So grateful to watch this now! Thanks!!
great stuff Neil...just re: Nannup...in summer 83/84 as a teenager me and my mate had an encounter with one at Peppi Grove near Busselton one evening...amazing how close we got to it...was not scared of us, more the other way round...we left, it stayed and stared...no noises or movement. It was sitting on top of a stack of square haybales. Seemed ultra relaxed and right on dusk. Never forgotten - we still talk about it. I've heard so many stories from this side of the country, including in the north - most very believable. One day the truth will come out - keep up the great work.
Neil~ Thank you so much, not just for your work, but for the class and dignity with which you treat people in these videos and for your gratitude and wonder for Australia's land and its creatures. I can't tell you how much happiness TAGOA has brought to my wife and I and our two animal-loving kids (ages 9 and 11) as we follow the army's progress from Phoenix, USA. We will be spreading the word; this is a moving documentary that is about much more than the thylacine and it deserves millions of views. God bless you, your late dog, and Australia.
Hey there M M, your words literally brought tears to my eyes when John showed me them. I don't know what to say without waffling on and sounding like a prat but I will do my best. In this world atm there is so much negativity, such a loss of conscience and moral integrity in our Australian Govt, and our wildlife here still suffers from bureaucratic morons who see nothing but opportunities to profit from nature and they continue to rape and pillage our forests and lands without impunity or any responsibility. When John and I decided to make this doco my biggest concern was that we didn't make a Hollywood style dramatised mishmash of garbage that we see so much these days. We took nearly 3 years to get this together with help of a Gofundme campaign, and many dollars of our own. I had nothing to do with the storyline or editing at all. That was Johns dept. My job was to supply him with the info to build the picture of what we could see was going on. The fact that our Govt has not helped us once speaks volumes about their concerns for the real story getting out. I would love a dollar for every km we travelled, cos then I could afford a Thermal drone and we would have the irrefutable proof we all seek and know is out there. Whether we ever prove it or not will not be what we are judged on. The fact that we got up and had a go will be my proudest moment and I can rest on my laurels anytime I need to. I am still knee deep in this pursuit to help save nature and what it has for all of us and we currently have around 50 cameras out there trying to get that one clear shot. Words like yours only make it easier to put up with the mud and mosquitoes because I am thrilled to know we could bring you so much joy and hope all the way across the world with our efforts. Thank you for watching and sharing your sentiment. We will keep "LIVING....the Thylacine dream", and hope will continue to be a major motivator. Cheers, Neil A Waters.
@@neilwaters7543 Neil~ Thank you for the lengthy and earnest reply, and of course kudos to John as well for his amazing work on this documentary and everything else. It was 46 Celsius (115 F) over the weekend here in the USA's Valley of the Sun; I'm glad you guys are able to be on the hunt in cooler weather! :) All the best, - Mike M.
They are still alive, I personally believe we should leave them alone and protect their habitat. If we focus more on their habitat, then the species will begin to grow in population.
As an animal lover any extinct animal upsets me. What really upsets me are those animals that mankind hunted to extinction like the thylacine, moa, dodo and great auk. Having said that I still believe the thylacine is still alive.
Somebody found a fish that was supposed to go extinct 65 million years ago. Only 80 years ago was the thylacine... finding it is gonna be a cool project.
a tiny, still rare fish, in the vast ocean, of which we have explored less than 5%, which lives very deep down there, is very different from an apex predator which hasnt been roadkilled (despite the ridiculously high roadkill rate in Tasmania, where they were last seen). On the mainland theyve been gone for thousands of years
@@joedorben3504 It ain't any different, yes it is, but that's from the environment and habitat they both live in. But the rest isn't different. If people have seen them, then they are still alive. There's no way of disproving it. We're dealing with Nature. Yes, the Thylacine is alive and hiding. They've even found animals that have the tell tale signs of being killed by a Thylacine. Also, the Coelacanth is 6.5 feet which isn't small.
Sounds like it is time to legally list Thylacines under protection of endangered species. Please give them the best chance to survive in case they do need help. No harm done if it turns out they really are gone.
Thank you so much for all of your hard work. This is the best documentary of the thylacine that I've ever watched. I have been obsessed since I was a child and have a deep love and respect for them. Thylacines are what sparked my interest in cryptozoology all those years ago. What man does to nature is disgusting and it breaks my heart. I'm glad that there are people in this world that see how important it is to protect our planet and its creatures. I've cried for many, thylacines included. I saw a documentary quite a while ago that was about Nannup and immediately thought to myself, "Those are my people." Someday, I hope to visit, if not just outright move there from the US. One of my biggest dreams in life is to witness a living thylacine. I've always believed they are still out there.
LOVE your scat scene - lol - the work is rough but worth it! Keep up the great work - so great to have found you guys just recently, and I'm so excited to find other people looking for this creature. I've spent a heck of a lot of time in East Gippsland and have seen all kinds of kooky creatures I couldn't name. Can't wait to see what you come back with next!!!
Regina is an incredible source of native Australian cultural information. I was lucky enough to have someone like her as a teacher of the "Dreamtime" stories as a child, God bless and keep you Regina.
We have exclusive videos being added regularly to our Website in the members only area Troy at TAGOA.com.au.... As far as a new documentary goes, we have one in the pipeline with SBS Viceland for later in the year and John and I have quite a few ideas for more material including a possible mini series.
I'm coming at this from an outsider Canadian's viewpoint. What an extraordinary case of convergent evolution! They look somewhat like the coyotes of North America but with beefier hindquarters and a far stiffer tail. Apparently they could hop like kangaroos, too. My Australian friend who lives in New South Wales has always been very dismissive of the idea that the Thylacine remains extant, though critically endangered. He likened these Thylacine-trackers to the sort of kooks and cranks that we have here in Canada who go out in the bush looking for sasquatch -- and I found his analogy quite daft and condescending. First, we known from fossils, sub-fossil skeletons in museums, those two newsreel videos from the 1930s, various photographs, accounts of 19th-century settlers, and the government of Tasmania itself that the Thylacine existed until at least 1936. The Government of Tasmania wouldn't have put a bounty on a folkloric animal that didn't really exist, like a sasquatch. Second, Thylacine habitat still exists, and they are purported to have gone extinct within living memory. It's not as if a relic population of Thylacines huddled in the fringes of Tasmania is an inherently crazy idea. I'm not sure what to make of these stories of Thylacines on the Australian mainland, where they apparently went extinct some 2,000 years ago. But I would certainly take seriously sightings from credible witnesses in Tasmania. I hope that some Thylacines have survived that that life, uh, found a way.
Superb review. I've watched a few in the past but none have come remotely as close to giving me the feeling that a very confident case can be made. Just keep at it, this can only be a matter of time!!!! Simply brilliant!!!!!!!
Why can't the thylacine still be in existence? There's so much of Tasmania untouched by humans, especially in the south west. Whilst touring on the west coast of Tasmania back in 2001, my wife and I were driving between Strahan & Queenstown, when a dog like animal ran out of the bush on the left side of the road and then leaped up the embankment on the other side of the road & into the bush. The embankment was at least 2 - 2.5 meters high. To this day we're both convinced that it was a Tiger. They're out there somewhere.
They do have the ability to hop/leap sort of like a kangaroo. I think that's probably what you saw, too. I know they are out there, keeping their distance from man.
I’m 99% sure while visiting my grandad out the back of lithgow when I was 14ish up in the hills I saw what I would say was one. We were hunting rabbits with a bow, this thing took off totally different to anything I know. I told dad, he said it’s probably a mangy fox. I’m sure what i saw.
Yeah there is, but the terrain up there is pretty harsh as far as searching goes. The weather is also very confronting too and quite hot. There are several towns up there and all over Australia with their local legend beast of some shape and description. It has been mentioned in publications by Zoologists as well so it isn't a beast of myth, just one of mystery...
All of the images on this video and others on YT seem to show the same animal. Is there a list of species that can be mistaken for a Thylacine? I suggest filming all possible false Thylacines to compare against these sightings and help measure or judge the likelihood of a misidentification - or positive ID.
great detailed informative doco, a pity about the bad subtitles especially the bit where it says F??????? in the head.??? wonderful work otherwise well done to all the dedicated researchers.
Friends recently returned from Tassie claimed if not found as roadkill they were probably extinct. I believe they are out there. A lot safer being elusive so man can't kill them off.
I hope it's not extinct. In this age of everyone carrying high definition cameras in their phone it's very disappointing that all of the pictures are blurry messes and no one is actually taking a clear photograph which leads me to believe the sightings are not accurate.
I believe the sightings of the aboriginal people more so than others. It has been their land for tens of thousands of years and they know that land and what creatures live there. They live more intimately with the land than those of European ancestry.
There sure seems to be a lot of "mangy foxes" in that area of the world. Not all those sightings are foxes. I'm willing to bet that you folks are indeed seeing thylacines.
Hopefully, a more thorough subtexting, without the errors becomes available soon,, especially with the elder ladies explaining of the storiesand the actual indigenous names of the various sub-species
My personal experience tells me that they are still around I saw one in 1968 from 8feet away smashing bone it didn't see me because it was eating, the very unusual running gait is like nothing else I have ever seen it was light coloured and covered in stripes I have been going to this area for50 years it is isolated we never saw anybody on this property in35 years 12kilometers deep by 24 kilometers long a big territory last sighting there was 2019 I believe I also no of other sightings in SA Pineroo,Streaky Bay,Iness National Park Streaky Bay,Minntuby Brown's Beach and 2008 the Hayplai Nsw. Sedan was my sigjting off you see one you will never forget what they look like nobody believed me so I didn't bring it up till now
Wow, thanks for sharing Kelvin Scarff! We know of sightings in most of these places, I'm sure Neil would love to talk to you at some stage. Cheers John
It’s in the interests of the establishment to dismiss the evidence of a small number of Thylacine surviving the deliberate policy of destruction, because denial of that high possibility allows them to continue to destroy the last remnants of their habitat.
A sponsored camera captured the photos that we have just released. We have over 60 cameras in the filed now, Neil likes to leave them undisturbed for as long as possible, he changes cards and batteries every 2 or 3 months usually.
I believe they are out there, but I don't know if its a good idea for us to "officially" find them if they are doing okay on their own. And that one video... mangy fox my ass, it looked way too healthy.
Yes, 93% Wombat. But, it did present a small percentage of Numbat DNA, which is interesting because there are no Numbats in Tasmania, AND....Numbats are the closest living relative to Thylacines. Also the scat was clearly a carnivore scat and not a wombat scat so the carnivores last meal was a wombat. Going by the size of the scat it was clearly a large carnivore. I also note that no Devil or Quoll DNA was present.
I did! I'm obsessed with cryptozoology because of the thylacine. I had read reports and seen videos discussing the moa still being around, as well as the NZ thylacine, which is much different than the ones from Australia/Tasmania. I hope they're both still out there.
So many sightings from unrelated sources. It’s such a unique looking animal, it’s almost hard to be skeptical. I believe people when they say they’ve seen one. They’re genuine, I feel. I don’t understand why science is so close minded about the possibility of this animal still being out there. There should be a concerted effort for the search and preservation of it. Why not? What’s the agenda behind the pushback on that? I’d genuinely like to understand. Why vilify people as if they’re talking about Bigfoot. We know the animal existed. It isn’t just lore, myth or legend. The fuckin things EXISTED. Seems so likely that it still may in very small numbers.
I went to the New England National park and camped there with my family about 2011, not sure of the date. We were awoken by something in our camp licking our dishes and it turned out to be a beautiful Quoll, full of mange but beautiful anyway. We had never seen one before. Then just outside the gate of the park, not even 100yards away was a 1080 bating sign. I know that Quoll's are meat eaters and I was so disgusted that I wrote the NSW government about it. They didn't even have the decency to reply. I saw a big cat on Bauple Mountain, Queensland when I was 10 years old and I know that things are out there, to farmers its a living but to everybody else its a crime to kill off animals that you don't even know are there unless your extremely lucky and are lucky enough to see one. Management must be done better if there animals are to survive.
has anyone looked at the possibility that its a sub species of the extinct animal maybe or even that there is a few alive the well known tiger and a close relative of them
Their head's are very similar to kangaroo's minus the large ears of the roo. Are there ever any sightings in New Guinea? So, I finally figured out what I want to do with my life. Move to Tasmania or Australia and look for Thylacines. Unfortunately, at the ripe ol' age of 50 with significant health issues, I think that ship has sailed a long time ago. In the video towards the end of the documentary where the animal with the striped bum is sitting and cleaning itself, how high is that trailcam? It looks like you usually put the trailcams up a ways from the ground. I was just trying to get a feel for how big that animal was. Also, the body of the thylacine found in a cave, I cannot find anything about that. I do not see how that animal could be 3,000 years old. That seems like our proof right there. We see how fast things decompose. If you look at someone that has been in a sealed casket for 50 years they have been embalmed and still do not look as good as the body of that thylacine. I have a hard time believing that. I hope this is proven in my lifetime. It would certainly be on my "bucket list" to see that happen. I also want to see a duckbilled platypus in person, but being in the US it will likely never happen. Thanks for all you do and for sharing your experiences.
www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/palaeontology/prehistoric/prehistoric_range_4.htm 'Mundrabilla thylacine' will get you to more info. I will talk to Neil and get back to you on the height of the camera. Cheers, John
I am from America. The Thylacine is my favorite animal of all time. I truly believe they are still out there. theres to much "evidence" to say they are gone
So, man has eradicated the Tassie Tiger in it's many forms.. Using more and more ingenious methods..Some must still exist, but which of the subspecies remain?
I hope we can find them and protect them. People need to know about them and need to learn that they have their own importance in the world and that we shouldn't belittling it.
I think it's a terrible crime that humans wiped out this amazing creature, like the many other species man has wiped out over tens of thousands of year's. We are the only species that wipes out entire species, others learn to exist together or live off each other keeping a balance. The only way humans will learn the error of their ways is if an extraterrestrial species moved to a place on earth and then exterminated every human in that area or country purely because they saw them as a pest or that they fancied eating them.
It amazes me when people say the Thylacine is extinct, because the supposedly last Thylacine was found dead in captivity... yes captivity has to mean this was the very last of the species in the opinion of those who would believe it. Somehow I seriously do not believe that every other single thylacine is going to come out of hiding in our vast wilderness so they can be filmed, captured or shot! However I do believe they still exist in the wilderness where they are safe from their predators which is man. I personally have seen one in the southern midlands in 1998 walking catlike across a wooded area. Unfortunately I did not have film in my camera so I couldn’t take a photo but it was around 400-600 meters from our house. I look forward to seeing another before I die and hopefully get a photo because that would be the only shot I’d be prepared to take of such a beautifully unique animal.
The footage of the captured thylacine is heartbreaking.He looks so desperate to get out and run free again.RIP beautiful .
He looks terribly stressed
Why does this animal make me so emotional 😭 it’s fair to say I’m deeply obsessed with them and hope I see them living free before I die
I think most of us feel the same Sphynx Mumma.
They are living free as we speak but seeing one is easier said than done....
66 million years of evolution, we killed most off when early man brought canids to Australia, but we may have killed the very last ones left [took refuge in Tasmania] a century ago!
66 million years of evolution, and shortly before we got really good at conservation we may have killed the last of them! And if we did gone forever because there are NO close relatives. We can't even clone passenger pigeons, and while thylacine look like canids they are COMPLETELY different, we humans are closer related to wolfs genetically than thylacine is to wolfs!
@@trvth1s well said. Plus we know so little about them somehow, yet we have them on film. So near yet so far !
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Here's my 2 cents worth. My father as little boy, went to see the " last thylacine " at the old Hobart zoo in its cage. The one you will see in this film! , Then in late 1950s, 2 of my uncle's, on a wallaby hunt seen one! Both brilliant bushman and veteran's of ww2.
Jump again to mid 1960s, my mother and father ,spot one on side of the road! As they are driving home from a holiday! Move forward to 2008, i found a perfect print in wet mud in the bush, fresh as fresh could be! What joins all these sightings is that all, are in same area. No more than 20 mins drive apart!
When i looked up a book on the animal's, by Dr Eric Guilier who was, at the time leading expert, on thylacines in the world! Same area had the most bounty's paid of anywhere in Tasmania, back when farmers / government paid for every one shot or trapped!!!!!!!! So think what you like, my mind has no doubts!
Thanks so much for sharing this Grant, it's amazing. Seeing is believing. Cheers, John
@@thylacineawarenessgroupofa5886 Cheers thing that made my heart stop. When i found my track in 2008, was the 2 cleft in the pad, nothing else in Tasmania has that!
I hope and pray that solid proof is found. This is just one of God's creatures that was done wrong by the human race. I am fascinated by the thylacine.
Proof cannot determine an animal's existence.
If credible people have seen them, then it shows that they are indeed still alive. It's best to leave them alone.
After all, we humans do nothing but bring destruction.
Also, we and the Thylacine are Mother Nature's creations, not God's.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ the problem is that it may be on the verge of extinction if it is out there, the right human interference would be a blessing; fingers crossed, who knows?
I sincerely hope you all get to find an alive thylacine in the wild. They are such beautiful animals. I hope they are still out there somewhere. Thanks for posting. I wanted to watch it but missed the last time it was posted. So grateful to watch this now! Thanks!!
Great to hear. Thanks for the feedback.
great stuff Neil...just re: Nannup...in summer 83/84 as a teenager me and my mate had an encounter with one at Peppi Grove near Busselton one evening...amazing how close we got to it...was not scared of us, more the other way round...we left, it stayed and stared...no noises or movement. It was sitting on top of a stack of square haybales. Seemed ultra relaxed and right on dusk. Never forgotten - we still talk about it. I've heard so many stories from this side of the country, including in the north - most very believable. One day the truth will come out - keep up the great work.
That's an awesome encounter. There are hundreds more like it right across Australia, hence the mission to raise awareness....
Neil~
Thank you so much, not just for your work, but for the class and dignity with which you treat people in these videos and for your gratitude and wonder for Australia's land and its creatures. I can't tell you how much happiness TAGOA has brought to my wife and I and our two animal-loving kids (ages 9 and 11) as we follow the army's progress from Phoenix, USA. We will be spreading the word; this is a moving documentary that is about much more than the thylacine and it deserves millions of views. God bless you, your late dog, and Australia.
Very kind words M M, thankyou! I will share this with the committee now, Neil will be well chuffed! Cheers, John
Hey there M M, your words literally brought tears to my eyes when John showed me them. I don't know what to say without waffling on and sounding like a prat but I will do my best. In this world atm there is so much negativity, such a loss of conscience and moral integrity in our Australian Govt, and our wildlife here still suffers from bureaucratic morons who see nothing but opportunities to profit from nature and they continue to rape and pillage our forests and lands without impunity or any responsibility. When John and I decided to make this doco my biggest concern was that we didn't make a Hollywood style dramatised mishmash of garbage that we see so much these days. We took nearly 3 years to get this together with help of a Gofundme campaign, and many dollars of our own. I had nothing to do with the storyline or editing at all. That was Johns dept. My job was to supply him with the info to build the picture of what we could see was going on. The fact that our Govt has not helped us once speaks volumes about their concerns for the real story getting out. I would love a dollar for every km we travelled, cos then I could afford a Thermal drone and we would have the irrefutable proof we all seek and know is out there. Whether we ever prove it or not will not be what we are judged on. The fact that we got up and had a go will be my proudest moment and I can rest on my laurels anytime I need to. I am still knee deep in this pursuit to help save nature and what it has for all of us and we currently have around 50 cameras out there trying to get that one clear shot. Words like yours only make it easier to put up with the mud and mosquitoes because I am thrilled to know we could bring you so much joy and hope all the way across the world with our efforts. Thank you for watching and sharing your sentiment. We will keep "LIVING....the Thylacine dream", and hope will continue to be a major motivator.
Cheers, Neil A Waters.
@@neilwaters7543 Neil~ Thank you for the lengthy and earnest reply, and of course kudos to John as well for his amazing work on this documentary and everything else. It was 46 Celsius (115 F) over the weekend here in the USA's Valley of the Sun; I'm glad you guys are able to be on the hunt in cooler weather! :) All the best, - Mike M.
Oh man was just about to go to bed, thanks for putting this up.I'll grab a cuppa and have a go, cheers
Truly, hope they are still here, we've lost so much already, keep strong and keep going.🇨🇦🐘😍
They are still alive, I personally believe we should leave them alone and protect their habitat.
If we focus more on their habitat, then the species will begin to grow in population.
Great doco, thank you for all the hard work. We have so much to learn from our indigenous brothers and sisters.
Yeah that's a given Wayne.
Thylacines are my most favorite people.
So good to have this as recently as 1 day ago. Love it!!!
As an animal lover any extinct animal upsets me. What really upsets me are those animals that mankind hunted to extinction like the thylacine, moa, dodo and great auk. Having said that I still believe the thylacine is still alive.
The teen's video is the most compelling evidence in recent years, particularly with multiple accounts of the same sighting.
That area has had more sightings again this year already...
Somebody found a fish that was supposed to go extinct 65 million years ago. Only 80 years ago was the thylacine... finding it is gonna be a cool project.
a tiny, still rare fish, in the vast ocean, of which we have explored less than 5%, which lives very deep down there, is very different from an apex predator which hasnt been roadkilled (despite the ridiculously high roadkill rate in Tasmania, where they were last seen). On the mainland theyve been gone for thousands of years
@@joedorben3504 , the absolute vastness of wilderness in Tasmania could very possibly harbour Thylacines.
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It ain't any different, yes it is, but that's from the environment and habitat they both live in.
But the rest isn't different.
If people have seen them, then they are still alive. There's no way of disproving it. We're dealing with Nature.
Yes, the Thylacine is alive and hiding. They've even found animals that have the tell tale signs of being killed by a Thylacine.
Also, the Coelacanth is 6.5 feet which isn't small.
Sounds like it is time to legally list Thylacines under protection of endangered species. Please give them the best chance to survive in case they do need help. No harm done if it turns out they really are gone.
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I really hope they are still out there. Keep up the good job guys!
Thank you so much for all of your hard work. This is the best documentary of the thylacine that I've ever watched. I have been obsessed since I was a child and have a deep love and respect for them. Thylacines are what sparked my interest in cryptozoology all those years ago. What man does to nature is disgusting and it breaks my heart. I'm glad that there are people in this world that see how important it is to protect our planet and its creatures. I've cried for many, thylacines included. I saw a documentary quite a while ago that was about Nannup and immediately thought to myself, "Those are my people." Someday, I hope to visit, if not just outright move there from the US. One of my biggest dreams in life is to witness a living thylacine. I've always believed they are still out there.
I dont know why but I'm just so obsessed with this animal I want to see and feel one
Me too !! Maybe cause there’s film on them on how they looked ?
Same
That’s been the problem
I bet these animals would make a nice wallet
I've got back in my back garden here in the UK
Great project of finding Tasmania Tiger and hopefully finds one day .
Much efforts doing by all project research concerns.
LOVE your scat scene - lol - the work is rough but worth it! Keep up the great work - so great to have found you guys just recently, and I'm so excited to find other people looking for this creature. I've spent a heck of a lot of time in East Gippsland and have seen all kinds of kooky creatures I couldn't name. Can't wait to see what you come back with next!!!
Hahahahaha Feel free to email me anytime about the un named creatures of East Gippsland Pickle....
Regina is an incredible source of native Australian cultural information. I was lucky enough to have someone like her as a teacher of the "Dreamtime" stories as a child, God bless and keep you Regina.
This is an excellent documentary. Well done. Very enjoyable. I too am one of the optimists who think they are still out there.
hope a new Doco is coming soon. Enjoyed this one back in 2019.
We have exclusive videos being added regularly to our Website in the members only area Troy at TAGOA.com.au.... As far as a new documentary goes, we have one in the pipeline with SBS Viceland for later in the year and John and I have quite a few ideas for more material including a possible mini series.
Unreal, great Doco ... Good work Neil appreciate your efforts
A very well put together documentary 👍 thank you for putting up on UA-cam. At least this time I got to see it 😂😂😎😍🇬🇧
Excellent! Thanks for your kind words mike smith 1, we are really proud of it. Cheers, John.
Thank you so much for this. Hope there will be more of it in the future. Greetings from germany :)
Ah very good to hear. Thanks for the feedback.
27:31. That is definitely one. You can see the length in the head and the tail. Unbelievable😯
This video has a lot of effort put into it. Thank you for putting it together and sharing it.
Thanks Shelby! We did put a fair effort into it, nice of you to notice. Cheers, John.
So awesome! This is one of my favorite animals! I would love to see one! So interesting!
I'm coming at this from an outsider Canadian's viewpoint. What an extraordinary case of convergent evolution! They look somewhat like the coyotes of North America but with beefier hindquarters and a far stiffer tail. Apparently they could hop like kangaroos, too.
My Australian friend who lives in New South Wales has always been very dismissive of the idea that the Thylacine remains extant, though critically endangered. He likened these Thylacine-trackers to the sort of kooks and cranks that we have here in Canada who go out in the bush looking for sasquatch -- and I found his analogy quite daft and condescending.
First, we known from fossils, sub-fossil skeletons in museums, those two newsreel videos from the 1930s, various photographs, accounts of 19th-century settlers, and the government of Tasmania itself that the Thylacine existed until at least 1936. The Government of Tasmania wouldn't have put a bounty on a folkloric animal that didn't really exist, like a sasquatch. Second, Thylacine habitat still exists, and they are purported to have gone extinct within living memory. It's not as if a relic population of Thylacines huddled in the fringes of Tasmania is an inherently crazy idea. I'm not sure what to make of these stories of Thylacines on the Australian mainland, where they apparently went extinct some 2,000 years ago. But I would certainly take seriously sightings from credible witnesses in Tasmania.
I hope that some Thylacines have survived that that life, uh, found a way.
Great docu! Very compelling and convincing evidence.
Superb review. I've watched a few in the past but none have come remotely as close to giving me the feeling that a very confident case can be made. Just keep at it, this can only be a matter of time!!!! Simply brilliant!!!!!!!
Incredible doco guys, you've convinced me
Why can't the thylacine still be in existence? There's so much of Tasmania untouched by humans, especially in the south west. Whilst touring on the west coast of Tasmania back in 2001, my wife and I were driving between Strahan & Queenstown, when a dog like animal ran out of the bush on the left side of the road and then leaped up the embankment on the other side of the road & into the bush. The embankment was at least 2 - 2.5 meters high. To this day we're both convinced that it was a Tiger. They're out there somewhere.
They do have the ability to hop/leap sort of like a kangaroo. I think that's probably what you saw, too. I know they are out there, keeping their distance from man.
I’m 99% sure while visiting my grandad out the back of lithgow when I was 14ish up in the hills I saw what I would say was one. We were hunting rabbits with a bow, this thing took off totally different to anything I know. I told dad, he said it’s probably a mangy fox. I’m sure what i saw.
I didn’t really know much about them then but it is what it is.
Plenty of sightings in NSW, QLD and Victoria.
Great documentary, well done!
one of the most unique ..bizzare.,and beautiful creature id ever get to know...even if im far from australia i believe it still roams tazmania..
Is there still many interest in the Queensland Tiger in australia? 4:20 and the account of the beach sounds quite like the Queensland tiger.
Yeah there is, but the terrain up there is pretty harsh as far as searching goes. The weather is also very confronting too and quite hot. There are several towns up there and all over Australia with their local legend beast of some shape and description. It has been mentioned in publications by Zoologists as well so it isn't a beast of myth, just one of mystery...
@@neilwaters6890 Understood. thanks.
the animal in 7:28 is a wounded dingo or a wounded dog. its moving a bit different because its left rear leg is wounded. it's dragging it.
All of the images on this video and others on YT seem to show the same animal. Is there a list of species that can be mistaken for a Thylacine? I suggest filming all possible false Thylacines to compare against these sightings and help measure or judge the likelihood of a misidentification - or positive ID.
There are foxes that have mange as well as dingoes.
For me, they can be easily distinguished if you take a closer look.
great detailed informative doco, a pity about the bad subtitles especially the bit where it says F??????? in the head.??? wonderful work otherwise well done to all the dedicated researchers.
Thanks for letting me know Deborah, I'm only part ways through fixing the auto subtitles, sounds like I better get a move on! Cheers, John.
Completely infactuated with this beautiful creature
Friends recently returned from Tassie claimed if not found as roadkill they were probably extinct. I believe they are out there. A lot safer being elusive so man can't kill them off.
They thought the Coelacanths were extinct until 1938 when the were found alive and well.
I believe they’re out there still
I really enjoyed that. Well done.
I hope it's not extinct. In this age of everyone carrying high definition cameras in their phone it's very disappointing that all of the pictures are blurry messes and no one is actually taking a clear photograph which leads me to believe the sightings are not accurate.
I believe the sightings of the aboriginal people more so than others. It has been their land for tens of thousands of years and they know that land and what creatures live there. They live more intimately with the land than those of European ancestry.
@@MCOury1998 ABSOLUTELY! It ticks me off when people don't listen to them and act like they are just superstitious and prone to see what isn't there.
Thank you Neil its wonderful
Very serious and Good documentary, we will find evidence I know and very Soon.
Great documentary
Cheers.
Amazing! Thanks a lot!!! Btw Loved her response hahaha 53:48
Kath is a national treasure at 95 years young.
There sure seems to be a lot of "mangy foxes" in that area of the world. Not all those sightings are foxes. I'm willing to bet that you folks are indeed seeing thylacines.
Amazing video!!!
Hopefully, a more thorough subtexting, without the errors becomes available soon,, especially with the elder ladies explaining of the storiesand the actual indigenous names of the various sub-species
Thanks James, I did make a start on that, will continue. Cheers, John.
My personal experience tells me that they are still around I saw one in 1968 from 8feet away smashing bone it didn't see me because it was eating, the very unusual running gait is like nothing else I have ever seen it was light coloured and covered in stripes I have been going to this area for50 years it is isolated we never saw anybody on this property in35 years 12kilometers deep by 24 kilometers long a big territory last sighting there was 2019 I believe I also no of other sightings in SA Pineroo,Streaky Bay,Iness National Park Streaky Bay,Minntuby Brown's Beach and 2008 the Hayplai Nsw. Sedan was my sigjting off you see one you will never forget what they look like nobody believed me so I didn't bring it up till now
Wow, thanks for sharing Kelvin Scarff! We know of sightings in most of these places, I'm sure Neil would love to talk to you at some stage. Cheers
John
Isn't that sad? Well, I for one, believe you. (For what it's worth) I've seen enough to know to keep an open mind. =^.^=
It’s in the interests of the establishment to dismiss the evidence of a small number of Thylacine surviving the deliberate policy of destruction, because denial of that high possibility allows them to continue to destroy the last remnants of their habitat.
It's a beautiful animal.. I pray there there..✌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
What's going on with all the sponsored trail cams that Neil was putting out?
A sponsored camera captured the photos that we have just released. We have over 60 cameras in the filed now, Neil likes to leave them undisturbed for as long as possible, he changes cards and batteries every 2 or 3 months usually.
is there any voice audio of the animal?
Nope, no audio of thylacine exists
I believe they are out there, but I don't know if its a good idea for us to "officially" find them if they are doing okay on their own. And that one video... mangy fox my ass, it looked way too healthy.
Can faeces be confirmed as a thylacine?
It says something about Australia that when the Guy is taking hair samples from the barbed wire fence, that at his feet is a crushed Heineken can !
Also, any verdict on the dung shown in the docu?
Yes, 93% Wombat. But, it did present a small percentage of Numbat DNA, which is interesting because there are no Numbats in Tasmania, AND....Numbats are the closest living relative to Thylacines. Also the scat was clearly a carnivore scat and not a wombat scat so the carnivores last meal was a wombat. Going by the size of the scat it was clearly a large carnivore. I also note that no Devil or Quoll DNA was present.
@@neilwaters6890 Quite intriguing! Thanks for the info! It definitely isn't herbivore dung.
What happened to the woman who found all the paw prints and a den?
Great documantury
Thankyou!
DID you now there was a NZ species of Thylacine that hunted Moa and some people think that the NZ Thylacine is the canterbury panther.
and didn't die out years ago.
I did not know that! Neil might, I will ask and check it out, thanks! John
@@thylacineawarenessgroupofa5886 Its called Thylacoline Zealandus
I did! I'm obsessed with cryptozoology because of the thylacine. I had read reports and seen videos discussing the moa still being around, as well as the NZ thylacine, which is much different than the ones from Australia/Tasmania. I hope they're both still out there.
So many sightings from unrelated sources. It’s such a unique looking animal, it’s almost hard to be skeptical. I believe people when they say they’ve seen one. They’re genuine, I feel. I don’t understand why science is so close minded about the possibility of this animal still being out there. There should be a concerted effort for the search and preservation of it. Why not? What’s the agenda behind the pushback on that? I’d genuinely like to understand. Why vilify people as if they’re talking about Bigfoot. We know the animal existed. It isn’t just lore, myth or legend. The fuckin things EXISTED. Seems so likely that it still may in very small numbers.
Do you believe there could be thylacines in the forrest's of Papua New Guinea?
Yes we do! It's not something we can investigate from here but it seems likely and we believe there have been recent sightings.
amazing video thanks
1.16.16-1.16.17 could this be the face of the rare Eastern Barred bandicoot?
SOOOOO COOOOL IM IN LOVE WITH TAZZ TIGERS
Their is alot of evidence that suggests tit is still alive and living deep.in the forests of Australia and Tasmania
A drone would help..??
Came here after the rediscovery video. No way this animal is extinct.
I went to the New England National park and camped there with my family about 2011, not sure of the date. We were awoken by something in our camp licking our dishes and it turned out to be a beautiful Quoll, full of mange but beautiful anyway. We had never seen one before. Then just outside the gate of the park, not even 100yards away was a 1080 bating sign. I know that Quoll's are meat eaters and I was so disgusted that I wrote the NSW government about it. They didn't even have the decency to reply. I saw a big cat on Bauple Mountain, Queensland when I was 10 years old and I know that things are out there, to farmers its a living but to everybody else its a crime to kill off animals that you don't even know are there unless your extremely lucky and are lucky enough to see one. Management must be done better if there animals are to survive.
The face of the sighting made by the teen is no foxes face
Footage at 19.50 does look very very convincing
has anyone looked at the possibility that its a sub species of the extinct animal maybe or even that there is a few alive the well known tiger and a close relative of them
I remember years ago on a documentary where a man came forward with a paw which he said belonged to a thylacine. Does anyone remember this?
they are in VIC.
could the paul days video be a dingo with an injured back leg?
I luv Tasmanian tiger
it's looked like it was injured yet injured dog does not run like that I think
Their head's are very similar to kangaroo's minus the large ears of the roo. Are there ever any sightings in New Guinea? So, I finally figured out what I want to do with my life. Move to Tasmania or Australia and look for Thylacines. Unfortunately, at the ripe ol' age of 50 with significant health issues, I think that ship has sailed a long time ago. In the video towards the end of the documentary where the animal with the striped bum is sitting and cleaning itself, how high is that trailcam? It looks like you usually put the trailcams up a ways from the ground. I was just trying to get a feel for how big that animal was. Also, the body of the thylacine found in a cave, I cannot find anything about that. I do not see how that animal could be 3,000 years old. That seems like our proof right there. We see how fast things decompose. If you look at someone that has been in a sealed casket for 50 years they have been embalmed and still do not look as good as the body of that thylacine. I have a hard time believing that. I hope this is proven in my lifetime. It would certainly be on my "bucket list" to see that happen. I also want to see a duckbilled platypus in person, but being in the US it will likely never happen. Thanks for all you do and for sharing your experiences.
www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/palaeontology/prehistoric/prehistoric_range_4.htm
'Mundrabilla thylacine' will get you to more info. I will talk to Neil and get back to you on the height of the camera. Cheers, John
I believe they are alive.
I am from America. The Thylacine is my favorite animal of all time. I truly believe they are still out there. theres to much "evidence" to say they are gone
The early settlers also believed they saw bunyips.
What that guy Andrew has could be more interesting if we could get a better look. Any reason why we couldn’t see all of them?
We showed all the ones that he gave us permission to show.
Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia any reason why you couldn’t show the others?
@@pheddoghetto8620 we have been scratching our heads over that for some years now....
I beleave there out there
So, man has eradicated the Tassie Tiger in it's many forms.. Using more and more ingenious methods..Some must still exist, but which of the subspecies remain?
Revive the tiger using DNA?
It’s been tried and discontinued in 2005.
if theyre still here i hope people never find them
I hope we can find them and protect them. People need to know about them and need to learn that they have their own importance in the world and that we shouldn't belittling it.
@@frogatte
We should leave them be.
We humans just fuck shit up. We destroy ourselves and the planet that nourished us.
100% agree!!
Great video sound too quiet tho
Thanks 👍👍👍
I think it's a terrible crime that humans wiped out this amazing creature, like the many other species man has wiped out over tens of thousands of year's.
We are the only species that wipes out entire species, others learn to exist together or live off each other keeping a balance.
The only way humans will learn the error of their ways is if an extraterrestrial species moved to a place on earth and then exterminated every human in that area or country purely because they saw them as a pest or that they fancied eating them.
It's so sad how they killed this animal off this is one animal I really love alot. I really wish I could have one of them
Sad story just like the dodo
It amazes me when people say the Thylacine is extinct, because the supposedly last Thylacine was found dead in captivity... yes captivity has to mean this was the very last of the species in the opinion of those who would believe it. Somehow I seriously do not believe that every other single thylacine is going to come out of hiding in our vast wilderness so they can be filmed, captured or shot! However I do believe they still exist in the wilderness where they are safe from their predators which is man. I personally have seen one in the southern midlands in 1998 walking catlike across a wooded area. Unfortunately I did not have film in my camera so I couldn’t take a photo but it was around 400-600 meters from our house. I look forward to seeing another before I die and hopefully get a photo because that would be the only shot I’d be prepared to take of such a beautifully unique animal.
This is all the proof I need