Mystery Carnivores Sightings,Attacks,Escapes.

[ar7pr]

Hardcastle
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HOBART, Wednesday. - What is the strange animal reported to have been seen in the Huon district during the past two or three weeks? This question is gathering momentum since the recent report that the creature had been seen near Fern Tree. The description of the animal has varied from a large fawnycolored dog to a lion, and it i thought to be ferocious. So far nobody has got close enough to give a clear description. Det.-Insp. Marshall was asked by an anxious inquirer to-day if there was any truth in the rumor that a lion escaped from a circus which visited Huon recently. In- spector Marshall said he had not heard of it. Perhaps the story of this strange creature could be likened to that of the Great Lake bunyip.

[Hardcastle]

Interesting, but not a lot to go on. Seems entirely possible it is just a dog. I will say the Huon district, despite being fairly close to Hobart, is not a bad location for potential thylacine survivors as it starts getting very very remote and wild very quickly in that south western corner of Tasmania.
I have my doubts though, about thylacine survival in general. I think it is quite possible a Quoll species will be thought extinct and then turn out to not be extinct many years later, because you never see them anyway (never ever, for me) and they are so elusive and evasive. Thylacines were not, which was their downfall. The idea they have evaded people for 100 odd years is I think attributing them with evasive cunning stealth capabilities they just didn't posess.

[Hardcastle]

Moved the thread because it is animal related, that other subforum is for talking about the forum itself and members etc.

[bombsonyourmom]

No way thylacines are out there. You need a minimum population to maintain a species. It would be way too convenient if there was this perfect-sized population of thylacines that was large enough to produce healthy offspring while also being small enough to avoid human notice.

There is a lot of financial incentive to find a thylacine, and unlike a lot of other animals that were thought to be extinct, thylacines are there own thing. Animals that are rediscovered tend to be animals like frogs, rodents, or aquatic animals. The average person wouldn't be able to tell one species of frog from another. Thylacines have some similarities to wolves and dogs but they are pretty distinct.

[ar7pr]

The Penguin Tiger 1908

THE PENGUIN TIGER.
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas) Friday 17 July 1908 p 4

For months past (writes our North-
west correspondent) there have been rumors of some strange animal at large
in the vicinity of Penguin, and, like
many another tale, it lost nothing in the
telling. The story first made its way into
public notice about the time a menagerie
attached to a circus passed through the
town en route to Burnie, and which lent
some colour to the tale that a lion had
escaped, and had been seen on the Iron
Cliff-road. The identity of the animal
was apparently doubtful, for some held it
to be a South African tiger, others a wolf, a hyena, a leopard, and so on.That there was some strange beast about was
very evident, for horses confined in a
stable at night would get very uneasy on
occasions, but excessive prudence prevent-
ed most persons from prying too perseveringly into the habits of this prowler. Pedestrians travelling this lonely road by
night spoke of some strange yellow-colour-
ed animal they had seen, but as none con-
fessed to more than a passing glimpse of
the critter, the searcher after tigers was
compelled to doubt. Still, like the stories
of the "bunyip," the tale was persistent-
ly told, and by fresh narrators of hair
raising experiences, until now it has be-
come generally accepted that there is a
veritable tiger at large close to Penguin,
although he is of the Tasmanian breed
(Thylacine). These animals do not usually
prowl about in daylight, but the one in
question has been seen many times on
the Iron Cliff-road in broad daylight. It has been seen in the town at night, and has created quite a scare. As some of the
local members of the defense force have
now taken to tiger hunting, this reign of
terror may soon be happily ended; but
in the meantime the all-absorbing question is, "Have you seen the tiger."

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The Maryborough Lion sighting in 1946 in Queensland.
(2nd of December, 1946)

"YENGARIE LION" INVADES THE CITY

It's the open season again for weird animals, and they are not all coming out of bottles. Some time ago the district was agog with tales of the Yengarie Lion and more recently a strange creature was reported to have been sighted on the Howard-road. The latest is a queer lion- like beast which was roaming the main streets on Saturday night. This animal, which was seen by two witnesses in Kent- street after midnight that night, was of diminutive stature, with a tawhy coloured pelt, and around its head was a thick, hushy mane, giving it a lionine appearance. It travelled at a rapid trot down Kent-street and disappeared in the darkness. Though considerably shocked, the witnesses yesterday gave a description of the beast to a resident who makes a hobby of nature study. He would not commit himself to a direct answer as to whether it was a thylacine or a sarcophile, but remarked: "It suggests something I saw last Halloween when I crawled out from under the piano." Quizzed as to his next move, he came back with:. "I crawled back under the piano".

[ar7pr]

The Tantancola tiger (it must be very old now) has, it is asserted, put in an appearance in these parts. On two diferent occasions a strange animal has been seen. On the last occasion, it was seen by Mr Botheras, formerly head teacher at Lyonville. Mr Botheras was walking home through the bush, when he saw an animal rolling on the ground. He at first thought it was a calf, but on closer inspection he saw that it was an animal resembling a tiger. Last Sunday, a party of 50 sportsmen, from Bullarto District, were securing the country in hopes of encountering the strange animal. Mr W. Giles, rabbit trapper, who has a large knowledge of the forest animals, suggests that the strange creature might be a huge tiger cat.