Extinct tiger could be alive - Australia

[dArKeR]

Supposedly long-extinct Tasmanian tigers have been spotted in parkland 25 kilometres from the heart of Melbourne, according to at least 20 sightings reported to the Victorian state government since the early 1990s.

Freedom of Information (FoI) requests revealed 63 possible sightings of Tasmanian tigers and big cats in Victoria, including a Parks Victoria report into multiple tiger sightings in the Warrandyte State Park, to the north of Melbourne.

Other repeat sightings of Tasmanian tigers in the same period centred around Wilsons Promontory National Park, in the south-east, and the Grampians range, in the west.

The last known Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, a dog-like marsupial with tiger-like stripes, died in captivity in Hobart in 1936 and was believed to have been extinct on the Australian mainland for 2 000 years.

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[Ediacara]

1. FYI

Tasmanian tigers are not tigers, but marsupials that look kind of cat-like and dog-like. Often refered to as Thylacine wolves, there have been no verified reports of them alive in over 65 years and generally considered to be 100% extinct.

[dweller]

2. cute critter

called a tiger, but thylacine cynocephalus means 'dog-headed pouched dog' and it's actually a marsupial...

hope they make a safe comeback.
dp

[dArKeR]

3. Off sub. Since you're fast with the pics can you find me Arnie smoking a

joint and nude as it say here:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/943881.asp?0cv=CB20

[dweller]

4. seems like one of those were posted here

about a week or so ago.
don't know if there is one of him smoking a doob..or not.
dp

edit: googled schwarzenegger nude pics and got 5,030 hits....i'm not going there, check it out yourself...
http://www.google.com/search?q=schwarzenegger+nude+pics&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1

[DCDemo]

5. Check Bartcop

He had it up over the past couple of days, so check previous issues

[Nomad559]

6. BartCop

It's here ... http://www.bartcop.com/1136.htm

[dArKeR]

7. Thanks, this is the first I've heard or seen them.

Too busy digging.

[alfredo]

10. Smoking a doobie is a plus in California. It's anti Ashcroft.

Of course he was smoking it in South Africa while celebrating his win. Now if that doobie had PCP in it, that would be a different story. Body Builders smoked that crap. It was the rage at the time. they called them "Bombs." Still, it shouldn't matter if he smoked a doobie, or posed nude. It is his issues, his abilities, that matter.

[RapidCreek]

18. Wow great to know...

Maybe Anuld and I can spark one up sometime! Wonder if he can score me some roids!!???

RC

[colorado_ufo]

20. What the hell are roids?

May I assume you do not mean hemorrhoids?

[RapidCreek]

23. That would be hoids...

I would be referring to the juice Anuld has injected himself with in an effort to give the appearance of being ready to explode. Steriods.

RC

[colorado_ufo]

25. Ah! Thanks!

Got it!

[WoodrowFan]

8. Meanwhile, back ontopic. 8-)

Maybe they are not extinct..

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/newthyla.html

[oneighty]

9. That would be nice

Have you seen the film of the last Tiger in the steel bar cage?

He walks the cage as if he is the "Last Tiger" in the world.

All alone, the end! He opens his mouth in a wide yawn

and the film is ended? Did you see that sadness?

I hope they come back.

180

[enki23]

11. how many "possible bigfoot sightings" in the western US

over the last ten years?

it would be nice if it were still there, but two to six unconfirmed sightings a year don't seem to warrant much optimism.

[slackmaster]

12. I really hope this turns out to be true

I want one.

[SideshowScott]

13. I hope its true..

It really saddans me how man is fuled by greed is destroying the homes of many of gods creatures..I hope this is one of the few wildlife miricle storys that happen once in a while

[4_Legs_Good]

14. That would be *sweet*

if it were true. I hope conservation organizations have their eyes peeled.

In other good news (well, as good as possible), they caught the mo-fo who shot California Condor AC-8 in southern California earlier this year. He got away with a $20,000 fine and 5 years of probation, though. He killed 0.5% of the entire species and he gets a $20K fine. Pathetic, but at least they got him.

I'm a condor fanatic...

david

Kucinich 2004

Arianna YES
Recall No

[hatrack]

15. It would be really cool if true, but . . .

I also remember getting my hopes up when reports came in of ivory-billed woodpecker sightings and calls in northern Lousiana. Nothing came of it, and six months later came confirmation that the ivory-bill's cousin, the imperial woodpecker (largest in the world) was indeed gone for good.

Extinction is (almost always) forever.

[Gato Moteado]

16. i'm a backyard cryptozoologist, so i've been following this story a bit...

...and also the story about the efforts to clone some thylacines:
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6983325%255E3462,00.html

[Ladyhawk]

17. Melbourne is on the mainland.

If the thylacine is still alive, I would give sightings in Tasmania more credence. However, Australia is a big continent, lightly populated by people (mostly on the coasts), so it is possible.

I've been hoping for years that the sightings would lead to a live thylacine.

As for big cats in Australia, they could be there, but they are not native and would represent escapes from negligent owners.

[NickB79]

21. The problem with Thylacine sightings being on the mainland

is that one of the primary reasons thylacines became extinct (supposedly) on the mainland 2000 yrs before white men arrived was because of the introduction and spread of the dingo by early Aborigines. The dingo was able to outcompete the thylacine for food, if not kill it outright. That's why the thylacine is also known as the Tasmanian tiger; it was only left on the island of Tasmania when Europeans arrived due to the fact dingos never reached Tasmania.

Of course, there are a lot of deep valleys and secluded rainforests along the eastern coasts where a population could escape detection. Still, it seems slim.

[Pert_UK]

19. I'm on the case........

I'll pick up Rooboy on the way round there and we'll go find us a tiger!

P.

[dArKeR]

22. Did you notice he had to use 'Freedom of Information Act' to get records

on these animal sightings? Wow, what control do we actually have over our lives?

[Bushfire]

24. This reminds me of a show on Animal Planet last weekend

of a super rare croc spotted in a remote part of Thailand caught by a motion sensor camera. The only known species were a few dozen in captivity, but they need to capture one in the wild to verify the DNA. The show wasn't Jeff Corwin, or Steve Irwin; but that tall redhead dude that loves reptiles.