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@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Thanks! Subbed 👍🏽

@benbeck1

9 күн бұрын

Love this animal, such a tragic tale. Hope its still out there or the genetic scientists can bring it back. Thanks for the good upload.

@WarrenHolly

8 күн бұрын

How about doing a story of the yowie, yeti and sasquatch. Guaranteed blockbuster!🦍

@teodorotaneo1688

6 күн бұрын

If i havnt heard Dr. Thor i would have believe this crap!

@DavidWilson224

5 күн бұрын

hello from Tasmania Australia! :)

I so badly want to believe these creatures still exist

@bunyip7343

12 күн бұрын

If you have ever been to the west coast and southern coast of Tassie... that is some thick bush - there is hope that they might still exist.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Me too! The video of that last one haunts me. I rescue/rehab animals, and there's such intelligence in that captive one's eyes, makes me sad. . . I hope there are still some living free. We live not far from the International Wolf Center (they have a live video feed, for anyone interested) and although of course thylacines are not related to wolves, they have the facial expression and body language of an intelligent and curious animal who deserves their own space to roam.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

​@@bunyip7343I've always wanted to travel there. . . but I can't afford international travel. 😕

@lanichilds2825

11 күн бұрын

Bigfoot

@Slay_No_More

11 күн бұрын

I think it might still be around. Just a gut feeling based on nothing however.

First they hunt it to extinction, then they search for it. Makes sense.

@maximusolivia9982

12 күн бұрын

I guess trying to correct mistake from the past. 🤷‍♂️

@indiopeninsulares6723

12 күн бұрын

I think the locals hunted it until it goes extinct not the outside world

@sarantissporidis391

11 күн бұрын

@@indiopeninsulares6723 I was referring to the locals. I have never shot a thylacine.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Tbf, the people who are searching for thylacines now, are hoping to help save the species (if they still exist). They aren't the same people who destroyed the species. Not all humans are evil. If a rabid dog kills a child, my Service Dog isn't to blame just because both are the same species.

@maximusolivia9982

11 күн бұрын

@@sarantissporidis391I bagged 4 back in the day. Had one of them stuffed. Ate the other 3

How do you start this off by comparing the very REAL Thylacine, to a Yeti and Loch Ness Monster?

@buxomboba

12 күн бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking... I came straight to the comments because that felt like such an off way to begin this video.

@brianshorey

11 күн бұрын

He goes on to say that unlike other mythical creatures, this thing existed.

@buxomboba

11 күн бұрын

@@brianshorey But that's just the thing, "unlike other mythical creatures," still implies that it is also a mythical creature...

@brianshorey

11 күн бұрын

@@buxomboba You could actually read this either way (although the inflection tends towards your interpretation). Agreed, they should have worded it better, but they did at least make a small attempt at drawing a distinction.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

​@@brianshoreyWell said.

Don't tell me you're gonna clone the Tas Tiger till you do. I've been hearing this news for over ten years

@CaptCMoore

13 күн бұрын

Exactly, clone

@da6640

13 күн бұрын

Of all the things to report on, they report on an extinct rat dog

@lantrick

13 күн бұрын

@@da6640 UIKR IKR? this was the only thing reported on, no other news stories about anything else, for decades. shameful.

@Skywatchers

13 күн бұрын

Ikr, they been going to clone a mammoth since I was born. Yet we have no mammoth. 😂

@chewy99.

13 күн бұрын

@@da6640Yeah I kinda wish we had another news story other than about these things in the last 50 years.

I live in Tasmania. A lot of the landscape here is rugged, steep and inaccessible, with quickly changing weather patterns. I believe the Thylacine still exists. Many extinct species have been found in remote places, look at the Coelacanth, the prehistoric fish found still alive and kicking.

@tehmtbz

10 күн бұрын

There's a guy here on KZread, a biologist I iirc, who means to collect enough money to, at some point, travel to an area of Tasmania he has identified as inaccessible to any natural predators, and well-removed from any human populations. He says he doesn't want to go there until he has the money to do it right so he can feel certain one way or the other. Incredible prospect. He feels it's very likely still alive. I hope I live to see it.

@jillianj310

10 күн бұрын

@@tehmtbzi saw this, I thought it was in papau new guinea where the singing dogs were rediscovered. And it was a tribe member who had one as a pet! But extremely interesting either way.

@alfredvalrie5541

10 күн бұрын

The problem is that the Tiger is megafauna which preferred grasslands not mountains.

@JoniusGnome

10 күн бұрын

@@alfredvalrie5541 Tasmanian Tiger was too small to prey on Megafauna.

@jillianj310

9 күн бұрын

@@alfredvalrie5541 to be fair, I think they said it might be a close cousin of the Tasmanian tiger. Like a slightly differently evolved version.

Taiwanese here, and i see a lot of parallels in our stories. In Taiwan, there also used to exist a predator, the clouded leopard. It was the "soul" of the forest and had significant roles in the history of the indigenous tribes. It was driven to extinction by human activities. Similar steps were taken to find any traces of their existence today, such as camara trapping. Sightings have been reported but never confirmed. Some people are adamant that they still exist somewhere in the deep mountains.

@kidslovesatan34

12 күн бұрын

Is that the same as the extant clouded leopard in Thailand? They are still there in the jungle.

@TheECSH

11 күн бұрын

​@@kidslovesatan34 yes, but a subspecies that's endemic to Taiwan. Funny enough that you should mentioned this, because again, similar to this video, some scientists have proposed using clouded leopard species from Southeast Asia as surrogates to carry the embryos of the genetically edited Taiwanese clouded leopards

@downrodeo

11 күн бұрын

@@TheECSH I build a biking trail near my home here in Malaysia. It is a small low land rainforest area. The clouded leopard has been reportedly spotted here. Not sure how many are around though. And more importantly what sex they are.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Yes! I've seen pictures of them, they were so beautiful, I hope some still survive. . . It's sad how many animals get hunted for their fur until they're driven into extinction.

@timbanks7344

11 күн бұрын

They do have some in zoos, there is one in the national zoo at least there was a couple years ago.

In 1980, we were driving (slowly) up an abandoned train track, on the outskirts of Zeehan, and had to stop, as one passed in front of us. It came from the right, stopped in the middle of the road/tracks (in the full sunlight), looked at us for 10-20 seconds, and then continued walking off to the left. All 4 of us in the car, all agreed we'd seen a Tassie Tiger.

@Shattered65

9 күн бұрын

I suspect the last few wild ones were around the Zeehan area in that period, but I am sure that the population was so low that they have long since died out. We saw what we were sure was one standing on a road in that area around December 1980 as we came around a bend it turned and ran into the scrub.

@DonutCrazyYT

9 күн бұрын

@@Shattered65That’s my thought too. So glad we got to see one.

@MeadowDay

7 күн бұрын

How lucky you were to see such a sight…I’ve always been heartbroken by the irresponsible loss of such a glorious animal.

@MattMcAlister-ky2xc

2 күн бұрын

That’s the most likely scenario - they probably still existed until around the mid-80s but have since indeed gone extinct. It’s unlikely that it would have been another animal that you’d seen in the area

One problem with this: The thylacine didn't sound anything like that. They're not related to wolves -- they're not canids at all -- and there's no evidence that they ever made any howling sounds like that. Reports from people who actually heard thylacines in the past indicate they were usually mute but would sometimes make short barks (but nothing like dog barks) or squealing sounds.

We been hearing about these de-extinction projects for years now and nothing has come from it. They talked about passenger pigeons, Tasmanian tiger, and the woolly mammoth. I’ve seen them all

Tasmanian tigers didn't howl like a wolf or dog they supposedly made a "yip" "yip" sound according to first hand accounts from before extinction.

@neilwaters7543

12 күн бұрын

😂 In over 100,000 years of human contact with Thylacine's, Adrian Richardson is the 1st one to EVER state that they howl like a wolf. Nice story, but it needs more dragons...

@bolbyballinger

12 күн бұрын

To be fair the researchers of old kind of threw out accounts from natives and we didn't really put all that much thought into the thylacine other than finding ways to off it. There's gonna be a lot of info missing on them.

@UpTheAnte1987

12 күн бұрын

I wonder if anyone’s told him marsupials don’t howl. Always take anything anyone who’s obsessed with a subject says with a large grain of salt

@ShamWerks

11 күн бұрын

They did that just to get the Flying Bisons to take off.

@joedennehy386

11 күн бұрын

Richo was pranked

Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, did not howl. They likely made a variety of sounds such as hissing, coughing, and a distinctive series of husky barking noises that may have served as a form of communication. There isn't any concrete evidence or description from historical observations that suggests they howled like wolves or dogs. Thylacines had a different jaw structure and vocal capability from those canids known for howling. Therefore it likely wasn't a Tasmanian Tiger.

@rumpeltyltskyn

11 күн бұрын

And am I mistaken, but are there not feral dogs in New Zealand?

@Tasmanaut

11 күн бұрын

@@rumpeltyltskyn this isn't in new zealand mate, it's in tasmania.

@rumpeltyltskyn

11 күн бұрын

@@Tasmanaut I misunderstood, thats my bad, I get names/places mixed up, I thought Tasmanian was part of New Zealand, not Australia.

@Tasmanaut

11 күн бұрын

@@rumpeltyltskyn that's hilarious XD I would be offended but it's just funny

@rumpeltyltskyn

11 күн бұрын

@@Tasmanaut I think I misheard something in a video once and got it twisted in my head!

I remember an incident here in WA where a livestock truck came to grief and a cow escaped into a block of land surrounded by main roads and it took a couple of weeks to find that cow, so a small animal in thousands of square kilometres not hard to believe 🤷🏼

@bolbyballinger

12 күн бұрын

Also, there's reports of them being in New Guinea which is the most unexplored place on earth. In fact, one anthropologist was told about a story of a native in the area who had one as a pet and since they were going to that area anyway looked into it. By the time they got there it had been killed by the natives dogs as it was smaller and weaker. And the natives taking advantage of all calories they could had eaten it. But there were bones that were thrown out and the anthropologist did find a jaw bone and took a picture. And the image matches a thylacine jaw perfectly. So, somewhere in New Guinea, ringed by near impenetrable rainforest mountains, there could very well be the thylacine.

@MattHobson-cr6xk

11 күн бұрын

​@@bolbyballingermaybe in new guinea maybe.but that isn't the most unexplored place pretty sure somewhere in Brazil is or the Amazon. in all of these places the jungle is dense ASF and in some type of constant tribal warfare so yeah who knows what's hiding I am more convinced there are monster snakes out there than the Tassie tigers myself but hey who knows Forrest seems pretty convinced if there are in new guinea pretty sure he will find em.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

​@@bolbyballingerYes, if they were there, they'd be endangered by dog packs, who would consider the thylacine to be invading the dogs' turf.

@leonardotheuseless4188

11 күн бұрын

@@bolbyballinger why would they be in new guinea, tasmania is so far away from there, at most they would be a similar species.

@bolbyballinger

11 күн бұрын

@@leonardotheuseless4188 The presence of dingoes drove the Thylacine to extinction on mainland Australia. This is important because back in the ice age ocean levels were lower. So low in fact that Australia and New Guinea were actually one contiguous landmass rather than separate islands. So it's only logical that the thylacine was also in New Guinea just like there are kangaroos in New Guinea. That and there's an actual fossil record. Is it a different kind of thylacine? Almost certainly. But it's a thylacine all the same.

The amount of animal species that went extinct/are going extinct because of human populating, deforestation and hunting is incredible, sad and infuriating.

@TopFix

Күн бұрын

The Thylacine existed on the mainland of Australia and went extinct there 2,000 years ago, way before any European arrival. Based on historical trajectory, it was bound to go extinct in Tasmania eventually regardless.

Remember when we followed old Adrian into the woods and tricked the geezer into think we were Tasmania Tigers howling?

@Yogachara

13 күн бұрын

First I laughed at your comment, then I felt really sad... ☹️

@andrewchalmers7422

13 күн бұрын

You couldn't get to where he was city couch potato

@Legiey

13 күн бұрын

💀

@HanginOffThaReel

12 күн бұрын

Exact same! Lol ​@@Yogachara

@pichan8841

10 күн бұрын

The 'howl' is exactly what made me doubt it being a thylacine: No howling documented. Only grunting and yelping of sorts...

The fact that it is a marsupial is the wildest thing to me.

Deer actually make some crazy loud weird sounds just not often

@anthonyhardt1994

13 күн бұрын

Yep! Deer will bellow in certain circumstances, and the man's calls sounded like a deer to me.

@KhanMann66

12 күн бұрын

Or just a cat screeching. His howls sound similar to a cat.

@creeperFIN123

11 күн бұрын

Dingos howl too so... Could be anything that howls.

@wahoonbox

11 күн бұрын

You are so correct

Nothing can erase the shame of our ignorance and destruction of environment and species. We must learn from our mistakes and move forward with care.

@ricardorascon88

2 күн бұрын

Yt people must learn ! Europeans and there descendants to be exact! Thankfully I'm only half Spaniard luckily not British

@TopFix

Күн бұрын

The Thylacine existed on the mainland of Australia and went extinct there 2,000 years ago, way before any European arrival. Based on historical trajectory, it was bound to go extinct in Tasmania eventually regardless.

The Tigers don't howl - wrong. Also - "there are no wild dogs in Tasmania" - completely untrue. There's a pack of wild dogs up in the western lakes - I've heard them howling on more than one occasion, when I was doing week-long hikes into that remote backcountry. I'd love it to be true - but that first guy lends zero credibility to the idea.

@hodaka1000

11 күн бұрын

It would be nice to find them In the 1960's you could imagine it but as time goes on and with more and more people with more and more cameras it's more and more unlikely

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

You have wild dogs? I hope Tasmania is careful about dogs coming in from abroad, you're one of the few places free from canine rabies. Rabies is endemic here in the US, except for Hawaii, which has such strict regulations, even Certified Service Dogs need to undergo a bunch of tests and documentation before we can visit Hawaii with a Service Dog.

@Tasmanaut

11 күн бұрын

@@zxyatiywariii8 we don't have wild dogs. Any that are found would be shot by park rangers.

@YortOK

8 күн бұрын

​@@zxyatiywariii8we ARE very careful about animals from overseas. There is no rabies anywhere in Australia.

Ah, yes, the annual Tasmanian Tiger story …

@Gigglypuffx3

7 күн бұрын

Lmao

@ricardorascon88

2 күн бұрын

Boo hoo just more history about how yt🙍🏼people killed off another animal species 😂.....

Tasmania native here, these creatures still exist. But they are very rare. I’ve seen 2 in my lifetime while out and about.

Unfortunately the Tasmanian government still allows the logging of native forests reducing suitable habitat to this day. Leonardo mentioned this on his own Facebook page.

Honestly Tassie is so wild and remote I reckon there’s gotta be a few still left out there. Here’s hoping we get to see them again one day

@4bidden1

10 күн бұрын

Even if there is a few left then inbreeding would have or will have token them out

I never thought the extinction of animals over time was anything more than the cycle of life. Then when I was in my 20s I went to a history museum and they had a display of actual birds that went extinct and the place they were last seen. It was so many different species and they were so different looking and to think they will never be here again was sad ! One of them the last sighting was in my town and I remember seeing that species as a kid. Hopefully they find the thylacine.

@popeyethepirate5473

11 күн бұрын

Hopefully you can figure out that communism tries to make ppl extinct...

@eldiablo3794

11 күн бұрын

The Great Auks were single handedly exterminated by humans... even if you were to look at it from the "cycle of life" angle the driving factor behind the extinction of species like the Great Auk was literally men over hunting them.

@jgs1703

11 күн бұрын

Species have gone extinct since the beginning of time.

@SovietMOB

10 күн бұрын

@@jgs1703 obviously. 🙄

@ShooterMcGavin-zm6rm

10 күн бұрын

Was it your Dad?

Imagine being out there and hear something saying something like "They're GRRREAT!"

@AFloridaSon

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, but they're not actually tigers.

@tornmien

13 күн бұрын

@@AFloridaSon Just saying they're as rare as Tony.

@Robochop-vz3qm

13 күн бұрын

🤣

@svenmorgenstern9506

12 күн бұрын

But do they like breakfast cereals? 🤷‍♂️

@joshclark756

11 күн бұрын

tony the tight is real

THIS MAN OUT HERE HOWLING AND THE INTERVIEWER SAID DO IT AGAIN 😂

In 1957, they stated that it was roaming around the bushes. In 1986, it was put on the endangered species list. The man was telling the truth. He must have seen something. What a fascinating species.

The silhouette of that animal running across the street … no dog no wolf runs like that. I don’t know that it is but i never saw an animal running like that.

Thylacine were not canids and did not howl. And if they are still around, they are most likely in New Guinea.

@kristaprice1954

9 күн бұрын

That's what Forrest Galante says. Not that I swallow everything he says but the way he explains his reasons make A LOT of sense with the geography and history of the Tasmanian Tiger.

@WILD__THINGS

3 күн бұрын

@@kristaprice1954 That's exactly why I'm saying this.

What’s sad to me is they roamed for thousands of years and then people as horrible humans came in and annihilated them really sad just another animal taken out by people

@hughbryant898

13 күн бұрын

Specifically, the colonials (not the original settlers) drove it to extinction.

@richardclark.

13 күн бұрын

And after they pay to have it eliminated they make it a mascot and wonder where it is?

@Antechynus

13 күн бұрын

​@hughbryant898 the original settlers wiped out the thylacine and devil on the mainland when they introduced dingos... the first feral introduction.

@badbattleaxe5832

13 күн бұрын

As humans we are an Apex predators, many times through history Apex predators have rendered their predecessors obsolete and eventually they go extinct. It’s a sad but natural process that’s been happening for millennia.

@richardclark.

13 күн бұрын

@@badbattleaxe5832 yeah. But we had a choice. Reasoning process and foresight. It was not the natural order of things or a matter of survival.

If you ever come across an Aussie hunter who likes to drink. Sit down with one. They can tell you some of the funniest & crazy stories. Had an ol boy here in Tx. Couldnt get enough. He was so funny & cool.

@apancher

12 күн бұрын

Aussies are a blast in general!

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

I LOVE Aussies!

@futureport

11 күн бұрын

We had an old mate who lived on a mountain here in oz, he swore that his reclusive rich neighbour was a bio scientist and conducted experiments on animals. He reckons one night (after a few beers at the pub) he came home to an open door and a strange creature the size of a large goanna shaped like an armadillo running rampant through his house! Those tales are the best!

@josh26566

10 күн бұрын

​@@futureportwhat's a goanna?

@marleyboy7732

10 күн бұрын

@@futureport 🤣🤣🤣 crazy

If it's really been "spotted" or seen, then that's good news. Just leave them be. Let them roam freely and stop "stalking" them❤❤❤

@kellykempvero

11 күн бұрын

There all dead. There isn’t any

It’s horrible that people murdered all the Tasmanian tigers and that it was also paid for by the government.

@igorz3551

9 күн бұрын

Yeah 😒

@retriever19golden55

9 күн бұрын

That's how the American bison was driven to the brink of extinction.

the tiger was not a sheep killer! the jaws werent big enough to crush a sheep skull. maybe a lamb but not a full grown sheep. the tiger was very misunderstood. they were killed for no reason. i believe they are still around.

@pyroglyphies

11 күн бұрын

This is so true. I've read and watched so many facts about the extinct animals and Tasmanian Tiger is one of the most misunderstood animal ever. Not even surprised considering how low the conservative nature and efforts of our people back in the day. Their drastic "preventive measurements" back in the day caused way too many unbalanced ecosystem that the scientists nowadays are trying to reverse. I also believe these creatures are just somewhere deep in the mountains like other 'extinct' animals that are currently getting rediscovered.

@screenPhiles

11 күн бұрын

Okay, they were essentially thought to be vermin and were hunted down and killed. Got it. Now what makes you think they're still around?

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Ikr, it makes me so angry at the people who killed them so ruthlessly and stupidly! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤬😢

@dianagraham4021

10 күн бұрын

THANK YOU!

@titaniumquarrion9838

9 күн бұрын

I a unsure if tiger's hunted sheep or not but to claim it was impossible due to jaw size isn't a great reason. Wolves can't crush a Caribou or Moose skull but they bring them down by attacking and crippling their back legs and belly.

The Loch Ness monster and yeti have never been proven to have ever existed. We know Tazzy tigers were real. This isn't a hunt for Bigfoot.

@OGtruthserum

12 күн бұрын

Loch Ness are pleiosaur, they existed a long time ago.

@liamgross7217

12 күн бұрын

@@OGtruthserumyea, way before the loch was formed.

@KhanMann66

12 күн бұрын

Wasn’t the guy who came up with the Loch Ness proven to be a hoax?

@liamgross7217

12 күн бұрын

@@KhanMann66 the famous photo was a hoax. Some doctor took it.

@kobrapromotions

12 күн бұрын

@@OGtruthserum loch wasnt anything its all made up... it hasnt been found, you cant even say it was a plesiosaur because again 0 evidence. Grow up.

The Tasmanian tiger still exist in my opinion. Very few numbers but I believe there is still at least one or 2 populations of them that exist on the wild.

I remember feeling sad about the extinction when I first read about the Tasmanian tiger many years ago, I hope they can find proof they're still out there

@bolbyballinger

12 күн бұрын

There is some new evidence coming from New Guinea (which they did live in at one point). An anthropologist heard about a native having a "striped dog" (the thing the natives called thylacines when shown images of them that they recognized) for a pet. It couldn't keep up with the actual dogs the natives had and died. As they would with any of their dogs they then ate it. Fortunately the bones were thrown out and the anthropologist was able to find a jaw bone. They took a picture and scientists confirmed it as looking exactly like a thylacine jaw. And this is an area we straight up haven't explored. It's a mountainous area that's also a rainforest so traversing it is exceptionally difficult. If the thylacine is alive, it'll be there.

I liked that one film where Willem Dafoe is hired to find one.

@danielmartin7838

13 күн бұрын

That was a great movie!

@bryanbaker5730

13 күн бұрын

The Hunter I think!

@atruceforbruce5388

13 күн бұрын

The howling 3 : marsupials, mentions some.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

WARNING SPOILERS BELOW, don't scroll down if you don't want to know! I love the way he started out as a callous "bounty hunter" working for a company as evil as Vault-Tec, but then he eventually came to empathize with that hunted, elderly, suffering thylacine. ❤

@Daniel-nr6iw

10 күн бұрын

Didn't he end up killing it in the movie?

It’s amazing how long they survived.

This is absolutely not a joke. Best friends of mine lived down the road from me in Haines City Florida. The area was close to several former theme parks where exotic animals were often brought and displayed over decades occasionally escaped. So it is not completely uncommon to see unusual animals in this part of Florida. One afternoon they were sitting in their house where they lived in the back of an orange grove, and through their glass door they saw an animal walk by in their growth that they could not identify. They described it as moving something like a cat, having a head like a dog, but stripes like a tiger, and they could not imagine what it was. They began searching and searching to find out what the strange creature could be and one afternoon told me joyfully that they had found out what it was, it was a thylacine! Please show me a picture and I cannot even believe it was real. I had never heard the word or any reference to a Tasmanian tiger. But I will tell you to this very day, I absolutely believe there was one in Haines City Florida in 1994. I don't know how long they live, or if it was alone, I believe my friends.

Look out for the Drop Bears! The TAS Tiger didn’t howl. Until very recently there were many older Tasmanians who had seen and heard the tiger. No one mentioned howls or calling across valleys.

Tasmanian Tiger is the name of an ED pill I bought at the local bodega

@maximusolivia9982

12 күн бұрын

And? How’d it turn out?? Don’t leave us “hanging”

@aguyinavan6087

11 күн бұрын

Don't take it, you'll go extinct.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

​@@maximusolivia9982😆🤣😂

@tituswillow

11 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣howling😂

@FaydsterTV

10 күн бұрын

“60% of the time it works every time”

Should correct you that it was THOUGHT that they preyed on sheep but is proven they didn’t.

Being from the states I too have spent my whole life praying! wondering! hoping! if there’s still one group of them hiding away out in the bush where they can’t be seen and pray before I die they’ll be found again.!!!

@YortOK

8 күн бұрын

My granddad saw one at Hobart zoo in the early 30's. I don't know if he saw one in the wild, I never asked him.

Just think of all the other animals that humans are currently driving into extinction

@enticingmay435

13 күн бұрын

Yeah it’s sad that people don’t become obsessed with them until after they’re gone.

@9ofClovers

13 күн бұрын

Press F to pay respect to Harambe

@AFloridaSon

13 күн бұрын

There's not enough money in saving animals that are not yet extinct. By bringing back extinct animals, they can put patent on them, and sell them to the highest bidders.

@poindextertunes

13 күн бұрын

@@9ofCloverstoo soon

@radicalsuggestions

13 күн бұрын

Even on that same island: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War

As soon as I heard his howling I thought crazy

@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc

13 күн бұрын

Lol samesies

@boosted_l6787

13 күн бұрын

@@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc When they make noises of these things like bigfoot ect I'm like I'm out

@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc

13 күн бұрын

​@@boosted_l6787😆 🤣

Great episode. Would Love to think that it is still in the wild!

Robert Deniro's range is incredible

2 other enthusiasts made the howls while searching themselves & catfished him.. Now he’s on a wild Goose chase. He catfished himself, his wife’s going to be livid.

@letstalkaboutit8254

13 күн бұрын

I would wager the majority of the blurry videos supposedly depicting a Tas. Tiger are actually fox's with mange- that would account for the slender tail.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

It's highly unlikely what he heard was a thylacine. However, I'll always hold out hope some still survive.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

​@@letstalkaboutit8254I agree. We once rescued an orphaned fox kit, and literally everyone who saw him thought he was a dog pup with some husky genes, because his tail was still short-furred, and he had the blue eyes common to babies of his breed. Eventually his eyes turned green and then finally fox-amber, and his tail poofed into a proper fox tail; but foxes can be mistaken for many other animals, and they have very adaptable sounds, depending on what sounds they heard as babies.

I firmly believe that the Tasmanian Tiger still exists. Over the years they have learned to avoid humans.

scientist's assessment is on point

I truly do hope they find some who have still survived.

@willyates9176

12 күн бұрын

I hope there are still some around, but I don’t wish them to be found by humans. Look what happened last time. They are only extinct or nearly so because of human intervention.

They do not call them shrimp they call them prawn.

@gointothedogs4634

13 күн бұрын

I recall the Australian actor who did commercials saying, "Put another shrimp on the bar-b."

@minirock000

13 күн бұрын

@@gointothedogs4634 That would be Paul Hogan or commonly known as "Crocodile Dundee" in the states. Another unknown thing in the states, Aussies do not drink "Fosters", they think it is swill.

@baabaabaa-yp2jh

12 күн бұрын

​@@minirock000Naa, we know it's swill!! And the shrimp bit Hoges did was so the Yanks didn't get confused.

@minirock000

12 күн бұрын

@@baabaabaa-yp2jh Aye.

@Alberthoward3right9up

12 күн бұрын

​@@baabaabaa-yp2jh seppos aint real smart 😂😂

Adrian Richardson's dedication and passion are great. Dude is doing the Lord's work trying to bring attention to a local legend of an animal.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Yes ❤

Idk if I'm on board with 'creating' them, but after watching that sad footage of the last known one in a zoo, it would be cool to know they still exist.

A few Tassie boys that go looking for the Tasmanian Tiger stumbled onto tiger footprints a couple of weeks ago. Here’s hoping they are still here

@octavius428ball

9 күн бұрын

Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂yeh I bet they really did being experts in the field and all 😂😂😂😂

@MrBrenos

9 күн бұрын

@@octavius428ball yeah so funny champ. Kind of like the animals they have been rediscovered in Tassie after being classed as extinct for over 200 years. Those experts?

@brucewayne3633

16 сағат бұрын

The footprints looked a bit small, perhaps a possum...

This is not an Australian 60 Minutes.

So many people out there looking for them and nobody can produce a decent image of one. That is very frustrating and certainly points to them not being out there, in my humble opinion.

In my area, the Tri-State region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, there were many supposed sightings of Mountain Lions... mostly in North Eastern Connecticut. Well I didn't know this back in the early 1980's, when I believed I had seen one, myself: It was walking along the side of the road, slowly, at about 10:00 PM. I saw it in my headlamps... It was under the overpass of Route 84 while I was driving on Route 34. Anyway, I slowed down and watched it... then after I passed it, I did a U-turn and went back... only to watch it slip into the bushes. For years after I would tell people I saw a Mountain Lion, and nobody would believe me. Fast forward to about ten or so years ago, after I had found out that I was far from alone. I looked it up, and there were many such reports, all in the same area I had my sighting. Well I was in the middle of an online argument with a friend about it... he telling me I was mistaken, it must have been a dog, or large cat, and so on... and during the time we argued, "what do you know?", there were suddenly sighting in the south of Connecticut, in the Greenwich area... and then, a female was hit and killed by a car, and it was not tagged. It was a wild cat. I absolutely believe it very possible that these Tasmanian tigers may be alive, and just in too low a numbers, in too remote a place to have been seen. We have Mountain Lions living in Connecticut, in rural, suburban and even urban areas... and they are rarely seen... but we now know they are there.

I do hope Mr. Richardson finds that the Tasmanian Tiger has survived but having a feeling in your heart, no matter how fervent it may be, is evidence of nothing.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Same. I hope, but I doubt.

Intro: Hardly an appropriate comparison between a recently extinct real animal, the thylacine, with two bogus mythical creatures.

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone

@marvymarier8988

13 күн бұрын

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"

@BabbittdaWabbitt

11 күн бұрын

Oh, you beat me to it…Doh !

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

So sad and so true.

Something i always struggle to understand is how we seem incapable of ridding invasive species, but species we want, we can't keep. - Australia can't get rid of African cane toads - Florida can't get rid of Indian burmese pythons - Spain can't get rid of carribbean sea urchins But we struggle to keep native animals alove

I watched a video not long ago about a potential population that might still exist in New Guinea. The range of the Thylacine extended not only into mainland Australia and when sea levels were lower many of the pacific islands were close enough that animals could more freely migrate.

If the Tasmanian Tiger has managed to avoid extinction, how has it survived with others as the gene pool must be extremely small?

@jman360co

13 күн бұрын

30 yrs ago he heard the call. 40 yes ago called for its extintion. Best possible scenario was that 30 years ago it was functionally extinct.

@booklover6403

11 күн бұрын

Some posted that 12 individuals had have survived for a healthy gean pool to exist to this day

@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px

10 күн бұрын

@@booklover6403 A healthy gene pool takes 10s of thousands of members. Not a dozen. Any genetic defect in a population that small will become dominant and end the species.

What’s happened to 60 minutes? Incredibly erroneous to draw a comparison between mythical creatures and the Tassie Tiger. And the mannerisms of the presenter are forced and contorted in a most unnatural way. There were game cams some years back that released incredible pictures of what definitely looked like a Thylacine.

@number4cat1

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, I would be embarrassed if forced to read that intro nonsense in front of a camera, but I think this narrator is immune to embarrassment.

@haemstah

12 күн бұрын

It's mostly cheese these days.

@XxBloggs

12 күн бұрын

There have never been any videos that show thylacines since the alleged extinction. There are plenty of people with good imaginations.

I really hope they are still out there, somewhere.

Timeframes are the most important concerns I Hope they manage to raise at minimum 350 years of Funding because that's an accurate approximation of the time this project is going to require

A teardrop of an island- bigger than Switzerland? 🤔 Remember on maps you're comparing it with the Australian mainland-not Bermuda!

@shaundgb7367

12 күн бұрын

I was down Tasmania just over a week ago. Think it bigger than my own state. Took a good six hours drive to go from bottom part of it to the top part of the state. Still not seen the west side of Tasmania. Think that is real wilderness so would not be surprised this Tassie Tiger could exist in an area where not many humans live.

Life, uh, finds a way

According to New York times, last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity was 1936. "According" to the article, they are still extinct.

2:10 when people start imitating the howl, then you know it’s over

Thylacene never howled the way canids do!

@KhanMann66

12 күн бұрын

Old man was tripping. Dude never explain how he knew it was Tasmanian tiger.

@bolbyballinger

12 күн бұрын

That said, colonialists have a bad habit of handwaving the natives. Plus they all pretended the thylacine was killing more sheep per year than the island even had to begin with. So there's probably a lot of stuff they missed. Plus, I've seen multiple dogs that "can't howl" give it a shot and actually produce a howl. Not a particularly strong howl, but a howl nonetheless.

@ooblah10

12 күн бұрын

Tassy doesn't have dingoes or wild dogs so maybe a fox or quoll he heard?

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

​@@ooblah10A fox with mange could have a skinny tail, too, which could make him/her look more like a thylacine from a distance. Although the jaw would be very different. . .

@Tasmanaut

11 күн бұрын

@@zxyatiywariii8 there are NO foxes in tasmania

Gotta love Australians❤

thylacine: I'm back! coelacanth:

This is not journalism. Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. בס'ד

I hope they find some of the Tasmanian Tigers still alive, but people claim to see bigfoot too.

There are Mountain Lions in North Carolina, but they say there are not. I saw one, and others i have talked to have as well

@dirtbikeheaven1129

13 күн бұрын

Same in West Virginia, although my sighting was years ago.

@pauledwards6446

11 күн бұрын

Hahaha

When you find the Loch Ness monster and the Abominable Snowman, you'll probably find them playing cards with the Tasmanian Tiger.

I live in New South Wales Australia , one day at the local small town shops a ute / pickup truck had four dogs on the back. One of them looked 95% like a Tassie Tiger, dogs like the one I saw could be reasonable for some of the sightings. I hope they still exist in a small pockets of wilderness somewhere.

Why would it be impossible to recreate a Thylacine when scientists are doing it with mammoths? I'd love to know they were back!

@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px

10 күн бұрын

They aren't actually bringing back mammoths. They are making an elephant that looks like a mammoth. They "hope" it will act like a mammoth and fill the ecological role they once did, but behavior isn't genetic, it's learned so having a pseudomammoth raised by elephants will likely just result in a hairy elephant that acts like an elephant with overheating issues.

I wanted you to know that was a group of 12-13 Tasmania tigers living and breeding as I saw 2 little ones that hadn’t fully developed there stripes yet, one big one came out of the pack and charged me I have never been so scared in my life I had no idea what I was seeing the stripes long tail , long muzzle lots of teeth I didn’t find out what I saw for years later. I feel so lucky to have seen them, but at the time it was really scary. I have never gone back, but now I want to see if I can find the road and set up a couple of game cams. They looked very healthy. There by Mt. Rainer in Washington state, Though you should know they do exist.

@zxyatiywariii8

11 күн бұрын

Washington State? That's a highly unlikely place for thylacines, even if a breeding pair had been imported there, the climate is completely wrong. Also, thylacines don't live in packs like wolves, so if there were 12 - 13, they were probably either wolves or wild dogs, those do live in packs. Sounds scary though, whatever they were, parents are very protective of their babies. Edit: But yeah, set up a camera, it would be interesting to see whatever you saw. Go when breeding season is long gone, it'd be safer

In Kakadu in the Northern Territory of Australia -thousands of miles from Tasmania there are rock paintings made by aborigines of the Thylacine

I was working on a vessel in Singapore back in early 2000s and one of these was onboard - effectively the ships rat catcher. I remember thinking thats a really wierd dog - vertical stripes on its sides and rear and really long jaw, spitting image. Wish I'd got a photo of it, but certain they or at least their offspring/descendants are still around if thats possible...

I heard him say that they "preyed on farmers' sheep," which is what was claimed at the time but I found this on Science daily: "Australia's iconic thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to death in the early Twentieth century for allegedly killing sheep; however, a new study has found that the tiger had such weak jaws that its prey was probably no larger than a possum."

Someday there'll be one or two humans left and will probably be out in a room (cage) for beings from other worlds to visit and marvel at the last human, maybe even feed him/her.

@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA

13 күн бұрын

Petted too?

@brandonbeeler2954

13 күн бұрын

@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSAfeed us skittles 🤣

@liamgross7217

12 күн бұрын

I hope they don’t poke us 😬

@sizeablelad1270

11 күн бұрын

I wouldnt if I was an alien

Really, all we need is edna to find out if the thylacine is still extant. We have the technology, all we need is the survey effort to collect samples from reported sighting do we can disprove it's current existence

I remember a kid in high school, from Cape Tribulation, who used to tell us how he had seen the mainland tiger. There is an university researcher, who is also looking for the mainland tiger. Anybody know the guy who used to be at Cape Tribulation?

NEVER ASK A SERIOUS QUESTION IN AN AUSTRALIAN PUB ...😊😊

Very interesting. Very sad when species go extinct.

@richardclark.

13 күн бұрын

Especially when we pay to have it extinct. Then make it a mascot and wonder where it is.

@jonbinki9651

12 күн бұрын

How many tears have you shed for never encountering a saber tooth tiger or a troop of North American Hyena's, during a field walk?

Tasmania is such a fascinating place 😮

Glad to hear that

Likely a population of 10 or less. In South Africa, there is a single lone female adult African Elephant grazing the Outiniqua forests stemming from a relic population.

@dihe1392

11 күн бұрын

How sad, poetic even, maybe. To be the last of your species 😢

@Mephitinae

11 күн бұрын

If there is a population, then its DNA should be detectable in lakes. It either shows up when tested, or it doesn't, and that settles it. This isn't the 1980s anymore, we have the tech to verify it.

@drengr2759

11 күн бұрын

The definition of "extinction" is far too simplified. "Functional extinction" means that they can never recover, because of multiple factors. Inbreeding is a major factor; birth defects are severe after 1 generation of inbreeding. After several generations, lethal defects become insurmountable.

@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px

10 күн бұрын

@@drengr2759 Unless they are cheetahs and they decide they might as well effectively become clones and recover from near extinction.

Little do they know, I'm a Tasmanian tiger.

@MichaelmaxxxxX

13 күн бұрын

haha and your icon winked too!

@ricktaylor3748

13 күн бұрын

My girlfriend has an Appalachian tiger, it has brownish black fur. Every 28 days it pukes blood.

@gointothedogs4634

13 күн бұрын

Well, if you have to tell us, you're probably not

@ricktaylor3748

13 күн бұрын

@@gointothedogs4634 Who is "us"?

@NoOneHere2Day

13 күн бұрын

@@ricktaylor3748 I also hate when people use "we" or "us" in the comments section. No one speaks for me, ever.

I sure hope they are still alive. Such an amazing animal.

A presumed extinct bird in cebu, philippines called cebu flowerpecker island in philippines was re-discovered in 1992. They hid in the thick forest and became very elusive. Now there are over 700 kown surviving in the wild.

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should".Dr Malcolm Jurassic Park

@matthewstearns289

13 күн бұрын

Same could be said about God creating humanity.

@Garlic_Bread_FTW

12 күн бұрын

The difference is the Tasmanian tiger was likely around up until about 40ish years ago, so there are still benefits to the ecosystem to it returning rather than dinosaurs, who have been extinct for billions of years and went extinct naturally.

10:04 He calls it a mammal, but isnt it a marsupial?

@aleale6277

13 күн бұрын

Marsupials are mammals

@dirtyfrench2926

13 күн бұрын

All mammals fall into 3 groups. Placentals like humans who give birth to a fully developed baby. Marsupials like Kangaroos that have a pouch the baby continues to develop in, and Monotromes like echidnas and the platypus that lays eggs.

@GassersGhost

13 күн бұрын

@@mattrag4988 You were two hours late (on the same damn thread) to be the smartest guy in the room. 👍

@patrickwolff6902

13 күн бұрын

“He said it’s a rectangle but it’s really a square”

@krnpowr

13 күн бұрын

Uh... duh... what do you think marsupials are, Einstein?

Wanna know the true story about how the last tiger "Benjamin" died? Well, My great great grandfather was a Zookeeper at Beaumaris zoo. The family story passed down from him goes like this- A young lad with down syndrome named Jebediah Brown, was employed at the zoo to sweep sawdust and clean the cages, my GGGrandpa caught young Jeb fooling around with the animals on numerous occasions, but because of his affliction, they let him do it ( because the local lasses didn't want a bar of poor Jebediah due to him having too many chromosomes and the zookeepers felt bad for him ) so they turned a blind eye to him fiddling the critters. So, one windy day in the spring of 1936, Jebediah- with a skin full of liquor, got into the cage with Benjamin for a little fun. Well, the liquor took control of the feeble minded boy and he went too far, he put his member inside the beast and stirred it around and around some more, until the critters insides became all mixed up like a stew....and just like that, the last tiger kicked the bucket. When the zookeepers had seen the aftermath of Jebediahs sin, they bundled him up in a potato sack and threw him down a mineshaft on the outskirts of Hobart Town.......and apparently, even to this day, on a windy September morn, you can still hear the screams of Jebediah Brown coming from that old mineshaft.

“Don’t nature mess with animals mess” - a wise person