Search ongoing for extinct Tasmanian tiger amid efforts to revive species | 60 Minutes
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- Thylacines - marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers - were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild are thriving. Scientists are also working to bring back the species.
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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.
How about doing a story of the yowie, yeti and sasquatch. Guaranteed blockbuster!🦍
If i havnt heard Dr. Thor i would have believe this crap!
hello from Tasmania Australia! :)
I so badly want to believe these creatures still exist
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.
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.
@@bunyip7343I've always wanted to travel there. . . but I can't afford international travel. 😕
Bigfoot
I think it might still be around. Just a gut feeling based on nothing however.
How do you start this off by comparing the very REAL Thylacine, to a Yeti and Loch Ness Monster?
Exactly what I was thinking... I came straight to the comments because that felt like such an off way to begin this video.
He goes on to say that unlike other mythical creatures, this thing existed.
@@brianshorey But that's just the thing, "unlike other mythical creatures," still implies that it is also a mythical creature...
@@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.
@@brianshoreyWell said.
First they hunt it to extinction, then they search for it.
Makes sense.
I guess trying to correct mistake from the past. 🤷♂️
I think the locals hunted it until it goes extinct not the outside world
@@indiopeninsulares6723 I was referring to the locals. I have never shot a thylacine.
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.
@@sarantissporidis391I bagged 4 back in the day.
Had one of them stuffed. Ate the other 3
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.
and a deer would make a noise like that but they ruled it out to fit their narrative
@@pseudocode1 Genuinely curious- what kind of deer howls?
Rather the thylacine was known to make yipping sounds somewhat similar to a terrier although it is true they weren't as vocal as dogs and wolves.
@pseudocode1 There is only type of deer in Tasmania; the Fallow deer. And they do not howl. In the rut they make a sort of grunting noise.
@@bluexwings Different species make different noises, and some are far from the standard descriptions. A red deer can make sounds some would interpret as a sort of howl, and people mimicking animals are often far from accurate with their rendition.
Which isn't endorsement that Tassie ligers howl etc. Or that such a noise has to be one, a multitude of other animals could be the culprit, or even tree groans.
Don't tell me you're gonna clone the Tas Tiger till you do. I've been hearing this news for over ten years
Exactly, clone
Of all the things to report on, they report on an extinct rat dog
@@da6640 UIKR
IKR? this was the only thing reported on, no other news stories about anything else, for decades. shameful.
Ikr, they been going to clone a mammoth since I was born. Yet we have no mammoth. 😂
@@da6640Yeah I kinda wish we had another news story other than about these things in the last 50 years.
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.
Is that the same as the extant clouded leopard in Thailand? They are still there in the jungle.
@@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
@@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.
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.
They do have some in zoos, there is one in the national zoo at least there was a couple years ago.
They’ve been talking about cloning it since I was a kid. Now I’m 32 and still waiting 😂
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.
There's a guy here on RUclips, 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.
@@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.
The problem is that the Tiger is megafauna which preferred grasslands not mountains.
@@alfredvalrie5541 Tasmanian Tiger was too small to prey on Megafauna.
@@alfredvalrie5541 to be fair, I think they said it might be a close cousin of the Tasmanian tiger. Like a slightly differently evolved version.
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.
😂 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...
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.
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
They did that just to get the Flying Bisons to take off.
Richo was pranked
The fact that it is a marsupial is the wildest thing to me.
All native mammals in Tasmania and Australia are marsupials. So, marsupials occupy all behavioral roles, or "niches." Marsupials fill the grassland grazing roles (kangaroos and wallabies), the tree-climbing browsing roles (koalas), and the carnivorous predator roles. Chasing predators tend to evolve toward similar forms-- that's called convergent evolution. Think of hyenas. They have a dog-like form, but they are very remote from dogs in terms of ancestry and genetics. In Tasmania the largish chasing predator niche was filled by the thylacine, which evolved to a dog-like form to do what dogs do, chase and overcome good-sized prey. Chasing and killing prey requires certain types of physical capabilities. These capabilities and the physical characteristics that make them possible evolve over and over again in various times and places.
In America we've got Posssums! Though not Marsupials, we also have Trash Pandas!! I think that in the Americas, Possums are the only marsupial!
That is wildly Amazing!!
@@donnievance1942 I think the pouch was/is reverse opening.
@@donnievance1942 Not all Australia's native mammals are marsupials. Australia has 83 species of bat and 69 rodents
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.
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.
@@Shattered65That’s my thought too. So glad we got to see one.
How lucky you were to see such a sight…I’ve always been heartbroken by the irresponsible loss of such a glorious animal.
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
@@MattMcAlister-ky2xcwhat do you mean it couldn't been another animal it most likely was another animal
The amount of animal species that went extinct/are going extinct because of human populating, deforestation and hunting is incredible, sad and infuriating.
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.
It's not because of so called "sport hunting". Usually guns, traps, and poisons employed by agents of farmers or the farmers themselves. But the biggest problem by far is habitat destruction one way or another...
The #1 cause of deforestation and species extinction is animal agriculture. 90% of all deforested land turned into land for animal agriculture, 80% of all crops grown are fed to livestock. 2/3 of all livable land is used for animal ag. The amount of food grown for livestock in ONE YEAR if instead fed to humans would end world hunger 14 times over.
Going vegan will save the planet.
@@TopFix Nice but did you realize that Australia had natives for 50,000 years. Europeans were not the first there
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.
Yt people must learn ! Europeans and there descendants to be exact! Thankfully I'm only half Spaniard luckily not British
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.
Not my fault 🤷
Except for time and nature. They'll erase it in short order.
Take a look at Pripyat.
We couldn't hurt the planet if we were actually trying.
Ourselves, sure.
But the "environment" needs zero help from us.
Migrants started fires that killed a BILLION wildlife but don't mention that, huh ?
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
One reason is that invasive species usually don't have predators or environmental factors that regulate their population. Because they don't belong there, there's no natural ways to keep the population to a healthy size and that's why there's much more of them than of an animal that belongs there and they multiply a lot more than in their natural environment. Thus, hunting efforts are not effective enough to get rid of them.
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 🤷🏼
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.
@@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.
@@bolbyballingerYes, if they were there, they'd be endangered by dog packs, who would consider the thylacine to be invading the dogs' turf.
@@bolbyballinger why would they be in new guinea, tasmania is so far away from there, at most they would be a similar species.
@@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.
Ah, yes, the annual Tasmanian Tiger story …
Lmao
Boo hoo just more history about how yt🙍🏼people killed off another animal species 😂.....
@@ricardorascon88relax buddy you only exist because of European spanish people 😂😂
@@mrjames-hc7nu also no I'm only 45% Spainard with 55%Native American 😂and when we say white people were referring to the evil British 😂or British Americans 🤭everyone knows Spain ,France and Italian white people are the cool ones 😎
It could be chupacobra.
Deer actually make some crazy loud weird sounds just not often
Yep! Deer will bellow in certain circumstances, and the man's calls sounded like a deer to me.
Or just a cat screeching. His howls sound similar to a cat.
Dingos howl too so... Could be anything that howls.
You are so correct
One scared me I wasn’t petting attention and I guess I was walking up on it it made a crazy noise
Remember when we followed old Adrian into the woods and tricked the geezer into think we were Tasmania Tigers howling?
First I laughed at your comment, then I felt really sad... ☹️
You couldn't get to where he was city couch potato
💀
Exact same! Lol @@Yogachara
The 'howl' is exactly what made me doubt it being a thylacine: No howling documented. Only grunting and yelping of sorts...
Tasmania native here, these creatures still exist. But they are very rare. I’ve seen 2 in my lifetime while out and about.
Dang, you could've been famous if you had a camera at that time
It's extinct. it's gone... There have been NO SIGHTINGS of it, just BS..
Let it go
@@tomodomo7675I’m absolutely certain they have photos but refuse to disclose it. Think about how many poachers that would show up and think about how bad the government screws up, now you’re giving them something else to muck up.
I’d love to hear more about your sightings!
@@bbllaakkeeee No chance. They're not worth anything to anyone dead.
If a poacher came & killed the only sighting, who would they sell to? A collector could just pay for one of the many already dead ones if they cared that much.
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.
It's extinct. it's gone... There have been NO SIGHTINGS of it, just BS..
Let it go
Which one? A lot of those are mangy foxes, which do run like that.
Feral cat? they can get big
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.
And am I mistaken, but are there not feral dogs in New Zealand?
@@rumpeltyltskyn this isn't in new zealand mate, it's in tasmania.
@@Tasmanaut I misunderstood, thats my bad, I get names/places mixed up, I thought Tasmanian was part of New Zealand, not Australia.
@@rumpeltyltskyn that's hilarious XD I would be offended but it's just funny
@@Tasmanaut I think I misheard something in a video once and got it twisted in my head!
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
Specifically, the colonials (not the original settlers) drove it to extinction.
And after they pay to have it eliminated they make it a mascot and wonder where it is?
@hughbryant898 the original settlers wiped out the thylacine and devil on the mainland when they introduced dingos... the first feral introduction.
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.
@@badbattleaxe5832 yeah. But we had a choice. Reasoning process and foresight. It was not the natural order of things or a matter of survival.
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.
Hopefully you can figure out that communism tries to make ppl extinct...
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.
Species have gone extinct since the beginning of time.
@@jgs1703 obviously. 🙄
Was it your Dad?
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
Ikr, it makes me so angry at the people who killed them so ruthlessly and stupidly! 🤦🏾♀️🤬😢
THANK YOU!
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.
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.
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❤❤❤
There all dead. There isn’t any
THIS MAN OUT HERE HOWLING AND THE INTERVIEWER SAID DO IT AGAIN 😂
I liked that one film where Willem Dafoe is hired to find one.
That was a great movie!
The Hunter I think!
The howling 3 : marsupials, mentions some.
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. ❤
Didn't he end up killing it in the movie?
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.
Loch Ness are pleiosaur, they existed a long time ago.
@@OGtruthserumyea, way before the loch was formed.
Wasn’t the guy who came up with the Loch Ness proven to be a hoax?
@@KhanMann66 the famous photo was a hoax. Some doctor took it.
@@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.
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
Even if there is a few left then inbreeding would have or will have token them out
Totally agree.
@@4bidden1 This. In order to elude discovery for this long, there'd have to be impossibly few of them. Even the tazmanian devil is severly threatened by inbreeding, and the number of devils would still have to be orders of magnitude greater than tigers, if they were still alive. It just doesn't add up.
2:10 when people start imitating the howl, then you know it’s over
Imagine being out there and hear something saying something like "They're GRRREAT!"
Yeah, but they're not actually tigers.
@@AFloridaSon Just saying they're as rare as Tony.
🤣
But do they like breakfast cereals? 🤷♂️
tony the tight is real
Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.
It's extinct. it's gone... There have been NO SIGHTINGS of it, just BS..
Let it go
It was not a thylacine.
@@nunliski Prove it
@@Lebofly HA! It's not on me, buddy. It's on OP to prove it.
Thylacines were about the size of a medium dog. So if it was far bigger than a dog it def was not a thylacine.
Should correct you that it was THOUGHT that they preyed on sheep but is proven they didn’t.
Just think of all the other animals that humans are currently driving into extinction
Yeah it’s sad that people don’t become obsessed with them until after they’re gone.
Press F to pay respect to Harambe
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.
@@9ofCloverstoo soon
Even on that same island: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War
I firmly believe that the Tasmanian Tiger still exists.
Over the years they have learned to avoid humans.
There’s probably only a handful of them left if any at all
Seeing the very last one in that tiny cage with people hitting the metal just broke my heart. He had nowhere to hide or any hope of escaping 😢
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
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.
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.
Aussies are a blast in general!
I LOVE Aussies!
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!
@@futureportwhat's a goanna?
@@futureport 🤣🤣🤣 crazy
Thylacine were not canids and did not howl. And if they are still around, they are most likely in New Guinea.
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.
@@kristaprice1954 That's exactly why I'm saying this.
@@WILD__THINGSthey where last in Tasmania far more recently than New Guinea. Stop being idiotic
thylacine: I'm back!
coelacanth:
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.
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
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.
@@zxyatiywariii8 we don't have wild dogs. Any that are found would be shot by park rangers.
@@zxyatiywariii8we ARE very careful about animals from overseas. There is no rabies anywhere in Australia.
I've gotten two wild dogs on trail camera west of Mole Creek, Tas.
“Outback Tasmania” …. That’s hilarious! Outback is what Aussie’s call the desert area on the mainland, while in Tasmania it’s called the “wilderness” as it’s so lush and most the island uninhabited.
Thylacine, Tasmania's equivalent to our Ivory-billed woodpecker.
Intro: Hardly an appropriate comparison between a recently extinct real animal, the thylacine, with two bogus mythical creatures.
Footage of two men walking, clear as day
Footage of taz tiger, blurry as hell
😂
Tasmanian Tiger is the name of an ED pill I bought at the local bodega
And? How’d it turn out??
Don’t leave us “hanging”
Don't take it, you'll go extinct.
@@maximusolivia9982😆🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣howling😂
“60% of the time it works every time”
This is beyond sad. What else humans accomplished but wiping out species of beautiful creatures
It’s amazing how long they survived.
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.!!!
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.
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.
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.
It's highly unlikely what he heard was a thylacine. However, I'll always hold out hope some still survive.
@@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.
Man, your great-grandparents killed this thing off, it’s too late lmaoooo
How strange and ironic it is that nowadays the thylacine image is plastered all over Tasmania, yet these people's ancestors hunted them to extinction.
It’s horrible that people murdered all the Tasmanian tigers and that it was also paid for by the government.
Yeah 😒
That's how the American bison was driven to the brink of extinction.
@@retriever19golden55 The government stepped in to preserve them
Taz tiger or wild dogs were killing sheep left and right.
@@corey2232😂😂😂. They paid a bounty for them. Because a lot of sheep were killed by them. But some suspect wild dogs were the culprit. Likely both were. But wild dogs are still there but don't belong there .
People need to stop treating animals like humans and humans like animals.
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Great episode.
Would
Love to think that it is still in the wild!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"
Oh, you beat me to it…Doh !
So sad and so true.
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."
Robert Deniro's range is incredible
Really hope they still exist. Such a cool animal!
I hope they find some of the Tasmanian Tigers still alive, but people claim to see bigfoot too.
"What is the middle ground? You could be right. You could be lying."
Um...
Pretty obvious that the other option there is: "You could be wrong." What a weird statement...
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.
Same. I hope, but I doubt.
“Well don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone..”
Guy with hat gives " tasmanian " call and " the hairs all over my arse stood up !" Laugh 😃 😀 😄 😁
Little do they know, I'm a Tasmanian tiger.
haha and your icon winked too!
My girlfriend has an Appalachian tiger, it has brownish black fur. Every 28 days it pukes blood.
Well, if you have to tell us, you're probably not
@@gointothedogs4634 Who is "us"?
@@ricktaylor3748 I also hate when people use "we" or "us" in the comments section. No one speaks for me, ever.
Thylacene never howled the way canids do!
Old man was tripping. Dude never explain how he knew it was Tasmanian tiger.
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.
Tassy doesn't have dingoes or wild dogs so maybe a fox or quoll he heard?
@@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. . .
@@zxyatiywariii8 there are NO foxes in tasmania
When you find the Loch Ness monster and the Abominable Snowman, you'll probably find them playing cards with the Tasmanian Tiger.
I live out here in Washington, in remote forested area. I leave a trash can lid of food outback for Bigfoot every evening. He never uses the fork.
NEVER ASK A SERIOUS QUESTION IN AN AUSTRALIAN PUB ...😊😊
I truly do hope they find some who have still survived.
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.
The last footage of the Tasmanian Tiger in captivity was filmed by my great Grandfather - Sidney Cook.
I really hope they are still out there, somewhere.
Hey everyone check out "The Hunter" with William Dafoe. It's a fictional story about trying to find the last Tasmanian Tiger.
Life, uh, finds a way
That "zoo" the captive one was housed in looked awful. Poor thing.
They do not call them shrimp they call them prawn.
I recall the Australian actor who did commercials saying, "Put another shrimp on the bar-b."
@@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.
@@minirock000Naa, we know it's swill!!
And the shrimp bit Hoges did was so the Yanks didn't get confused.
@@baabaabaa-yp2jh Aye.
@@baabaabaa-yp2jh seppos aint real smart 😂😂
Very interesting. Very sad when species go extinct.
Especially when we pay to have it extinct. Then make it a mascot and wonder where it is.
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?
“Don’t nature mess with animals mess” - a wise person
CRISPR - hold my Fosters beer
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.
Petted too?
@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSAfeed us skittles 🤣
I hope they don’t poke us 😬
I wouldnt if I was an alien
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.
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.
It's mostly cheese these days.
There have never been any videos that show thylacines since the alleged extinction. There are plenty of people with good imaginations.
I've been to Tasmania and one might think it is a small island compared to Australia further north, but have no doubt Tasmania is a huge island. More than a quarter of the island is still unexplored.
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.
Yes ❤
As soon as I heard his howling I thought crazy
Lol samesies
@@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc When they make noises of these things like bigfoot ect I'm like I'm out
@@boosted_l6787😆 🤣
Gotta love Australians❤
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.
Why would it be impossible to recreate a Thylacine when scientists are doing it with mammoths? I'd love to know they were back!
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.
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.
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.
There's always easy money via government grants to go searching for the Tassie Tiger. It always attracts a certain style of person. Thats what makes Tasmania so special. It's weird because there was a human extinction on Tasmania yet that's ignored. Honestly I don't understand anymore.
Government grants for thylacine searches ended in the 1980s
The first time I heard about Tasmanian Tiger was from watching Wild Kratts. 😂😂😂😂😂
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.
How sad, poetic even, maybe. To be the last of your species 😢
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.
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.
@@drengr2759 Unless they are cheetahs and they decide they might as well effectively become clones and recover from near extinction.
My farther in law was at a pub north of Hobart around 2006. Two local hunters had shot one mistaking it for a wild dog and brought it back to the bar. It was placed in a deep freezer for about 6weeks until the university paid the publican and hunters to keep it quiet and took the dead tiger away.
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.
A teardrop of an island- bigger than Switzerland? 🤔
Remember on maps you're comparing it with the Australian mainland-not Bermuda!
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.