Search ongoing for extinct Tasmanian tiger amid efforts to revive species | 60 Minutes

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[@zxyatiywariii8]

Thanks! Subbed 👍🏽

[@benbeck1]

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]

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

[@teodorotaneo1688]

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

[@PhilipShand]

With so much totally untouched territory,not only Tasmania,but the Australian continent,I don't doubt these animals still survive along with some other surprises.I am still amazed at the areas of our entire planet that remain untouched to this day,so why not find something that surprises us ?

[@taylork3043]

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]

Exactly, clone

[@da6640]

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

[@lantrick]

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

[@Skywatchersx]

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

[@chewy99.]

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

[@sarantissporidis391]

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

[@maximusolivia9982]

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

[@indiopeninsulares6723]

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

[@sarantissporidis391]

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

[@zxyatiywariii8]

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]

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

[@JD-qh3sd]

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.

[@pseudocode1]

and a deer would make a noise like that but they ruled it out to fit their narrative

[@bluexwings]

​@@pseudocode1 Genuinely curious- what kind of deer howls?

[@davida.4933]

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.

[@Blaxland02]

@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.

[@johnmead8437]

@@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.

[@JMcKey21]

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

[@donnievance1942]

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.

[@SirenaReign]

That is wildly Amazing!!

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

@@donnievance1942 I think the pouch was/is reverse opening.

[@Kiwigeo8339]

@@donnievance1942 Not all Australia's native mammals are marsupials. Australia has 83 species of bat and 69 rodents

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

​@spaceace1006 how about opossums? They marsupial.

[@alejandroguerra6755]

They’ve been talking about cloning it since I was a kid. Now I’m 32 and still waiting 😂

[@Observing-NPCs]

Ikr 😂 dolly the sheep was it

[@JoshTrager-j9g]

To be fair, they're a lot closer now.

[@TheECSH]

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]

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

[@TheECSH]

​@@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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@laurieb3703]

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 😢

[@tourdegadetheskankslayer1065]

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]

😂 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]

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]

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]

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

[@joedennehy386]

Richo was pranked

[@TEN89_jburney]

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

[@TopFix]

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.

[@davida.4933]

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...

[@thevegandragon_]

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.

[@staticbuilds7613]

@@TopFix Nice but did you realize that Australia had natives for 50,000 years. Europeans were not the first there

[@jcgjcg3844]

People want to blame extinction on humans. Yes, we have a hand in it, but sometimes nature does most of the work! When the human population was low and animals overpopulated the earth, they still went extinct to put all the blame on humans is nieve. And ignorant of world history

[@DonutCrazyYT]

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]

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]

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

[@MeadowDay]

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]

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

[@AKayani559]

​@@MattMcAlister-ky2xcwhat do you mean it couldn't been another animal it most likely was another animal

[@brycepardoe658]

I so badly want to believe these creatures still exist

[@bunyip7343]

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]

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]

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

[@Slay_No_More]

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

[@YouTubeUzername]

@@Slay_No_More😂😂😂

[@steverichardson6920]

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]

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]

​@@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]

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

[@leonardotheuseless4188]

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

[@bolbyballinger]

@@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.

[@CompoundingTime]

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

[@Yogachara]

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

[@andrewchalmers7422]

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

[@Legiey]

💀

[@HanginOffThaReel]

Exact same! Lol ​@@Yogachara

[@pichan8841]

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

[@DalazG]

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

[@mael2039]

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.

[@p0rcs]

Ever consider the two are related?

[@jennhoff03]

Well if you're not speaking rhetorically, I have the answer for you. :) Native species evolve to prey on other local species and to be preyed upon. Invasive species, introduced from elsewhere, have not evolved with the local ecosystem to have any natural predators. For example, can toads have venom, and only the specific eels and birds where it evolved have become immune to it. It's really frustrating to see the havoc things wreak just bc someone brought it where it didn't belong. :(

[@maximilian9295]

Also. Money. Killing these animals either made or saved money. Everything in the world is about money.

[@Abruzzo333]

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.

[@sg-yq8pm]

How strange and ironic? - Not remotely.

[@stanleysweaney6174]

Livestock producers put bounties on them. Not necessarily the work of everyone involved.

[@SovietMOB]

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]

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

[@eldiablo3794]

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]

Species have gone extinct since the beginning of time.

[@SovietMOB]

@@jgs1703 obviously. 🙄

[@ShooterMcGavin-zm6rm]

Was it your Dad?

[@kikigood7567]

Deer actually make some crazy loud weird sounds just not often

[@anthonyhardt1994]

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

[@KhanMann66]

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

[@creeperFIN123]

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

[@wahoonbox]

You are so correct

[@fazofiguer0996]

One scared me I wasn’t petting attention and I guess I was walking up on it it made a crazy noise

[@Gracie0229]

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]

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

[@richardclark.]

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

[@Antechynus]

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

[@badbattleaxe5832]

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.]

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

[@FelixRisingOriginal]

The last footage of the Tasmanian Tiger in captivity was filmed by my great Grandfather - Sidney Cook.

[@TTobyyyy]

Liar

[@robertferguson5562]

Truth teller ​@@TTobyyyy

[@bradwilliams1691]

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.

[@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn]

It's extinct. it's gone... There have been NO SIGHTINGS of it, just BS.. Let it go

[@nunliski]

It was not a thylacine.

[@Lebofly]

@@nunliski Prove it

[@nunliski]

@@Lebofly HA! It's not on me, buddy. It's on OP to prove it.

[@zentriffid]

Thylacines were about the size of a medium dog. So if it was far bigger than a dog it def was not a thylacine.

[@markleon411]

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.

[@Ricardorhino88]

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

[@TopFix]

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.

[@no_name787-fs3yk]

Not my fault 🤷

[@tommc3622]

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.

[@leeinwis]

Migrants started fires that killed a BILLION wildlife but don't mention that, huh ?

[@MattMan01]

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

[@buxomboba]

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

[@brianshorey]

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

[@buxomboba]

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

[@brianshorey]

@@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]

​@@brianshoreyWell said.

[@captmulch1]

Ah, yes, the annual Tasmanian Tiger story …

[@Gigglypuffx3]

Lmao

[@Ricardorhino88]

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

[@mrjames-hc7nu]

​@@Ricardorhino88relax buddy you only exist because of European spanish people 😂😂

[@Ricardorhino88]

@@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 😎

[@jg3000]

It could be chupacobra.

[@elderinmoi1571]

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.

[@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn]

It's extinct. it's gone... There have been NO SIGHTINGS of it, just BS.. Let it go

[@LadyhawksLairDotCom]

Which one? A lot of those are mangy foxes, which do run like that.

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

Feral cat? they can get big

[@DjNotNicesNucka]

Or the tasmanian devil which is on the island.

[@rayoflight1920]

This is beyond sad. What else humans accomplished but wiping out species of beautiful creatures

[@kellyruddock8822]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@dianagraham4021]

THANK YOU!

[@titaniumquarrion9838]

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.

[@prameelaramanujan5672]

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]

There all dead. There isn’t any

[@fluxpistol3608]

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]

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

[@Tasmanaut]

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

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

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

[@Tasmanaut]

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

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

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

[@JacobafJelling]

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

[@johnbwill]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@YortOK]

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

[@davida.4933]

I've gotten two wild dogs on trail camera west of Mole Creek, Tas.

[@MrPaulviles]

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

[@Bhafez1]

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

[@puppetguy8726]

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]

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.

[@stadic5311]

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

[@quester09]

thylacine: I'm back! coelacanth:

[@tornmien]

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

[@AFloridaSon]

Yeah, but they're not actually tigers.

[@tornmien]

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

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

🤣

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

But do they like breakfast cereals? 🤷‍♂️

[@joshclark756]

tony the tight is real

[@comfortablynumb9342]

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]

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

[@liamgross7217]

@@OGtruthserumyea, way before the loch was formed.

[@KhanMann66]

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

[@liamgross7217]

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

[@kobrapromotions]

@@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.

[@Cloud_JOB]

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.

[@TheFrogfeeder]

It was declared extinct in 1986 after not being seen for 50 years, not endangered species list…

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[@DanSurprise]

I thought we were close to cloning a Woolly Mammoth? lol

[@amycastor2872]

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

[@enticingmay435]

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

[@9ofClovers]

Press F to pay respect to Harambe

[@AFloridaSon]

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]

@@9ofCloverstoo soon

[@radicalsuggestions]

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

[@vsznry]

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

[@danielmartin7838]

That was a great movie!

[@bryanbaker5730]

The Hunter I think!

[@atruceforbruce5388]

The howling 3 : marsupials, mentions some.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

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]

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

[@chuckjenkins4348]

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]

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.

[@DaLeonTheGamerr]

@4:51 damn Walter White is alive!!! Didnt know he turned his life around 😂

[@andrewkellett6290]

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.

[@marleyboy7732]

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]

Aussies are a blast in general!

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I LOVE Aussies!

[@futureport]

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!

[@LaManchalandsDonQuixote]

​@@futureportwhat's a goanna?

[@marleyboy7732]

@@futureport 🤣🤣🤣 crazy

[@sarahbass6116]

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

[@Kiiieeechiii]

There’s probably only a handful of them left if any at all

[@Hudpix16]

Yeah they’re like Elvis, still roaming around and avoiding people

[@mdee8784]

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]

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

[@bradwilliams1691]

Totally agree.

[@xergiok2322]

@@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.

[@BRIANCOSTELLO土澳]

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.

[@Mochiii26]

6:37 “nointeen” skz felix saying 19 😂😂😂

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

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]

Same. I hope, but I doubt.

[@WILD__THINGS]

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

[@kristaprice1954]

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]

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

[@mrsugar2352]

@@WILD__THINGSthey where last in Tasmania far more recently than New Guinea. Stop being idiotic

[@cheshunt5597]

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.

[@donjuanako]

Footage of two men walking, clear as day Footage of taz tiger, blurry as hell

[@4bidden1]

😂

[@voiceofreason2674]

They been talking about reviving the mammoth since i was a little kid in the 90s

[@stanleysweaney6174]

..and?

[@perseus431]

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

[@aleale6277]

Marsupials are mammals

[@dirtyfrench2926]

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]

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

[@patrickwolff6902]

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

[@krnpowr]

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

[@SasquatchPicker]

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]

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

[@Mephitinae]

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]

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]

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

[@chakuseki]

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

[@maximusolivia9982]

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

[@aguyinavan6087]

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

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@maximusolivia9982😆🤣😂

[@tituswillow]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣howling😂

[@FaydsterTV]

“60% of the time it works every time”

[@cjanderson2371]

Ngl - I think about the Thylacine and it makes me cry. I really hope they are still out there, but I know the reality is very slim.

[@jordyb57]

I’ve cried at least once a week for over 10 years thinking about the thylacine 😢

[@andyshriner5443]

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."

[@winesap2]

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

[@brucekuehn4031]

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

[@marvymarier8988]

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"

[@BabbittdaWabbitt]

Oh, you beat me to it…Doh !

[@zxyatiywariii8]

So sad and so true.

[@MarijkeWillemsen990]

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

[@igorz3551]

Yeah 😒

[@retriever19golden55]

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

[@corey2232]

@@retriever19golden55 The government stepped in to preserve them

[@jg3000]

Taz tiger or wild dogs were killing sheep left and right.

[@jg3000]

​​@@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 .

[@jonathanroberts-bj7yl]

It’s amazing how long it survived.

[@sarahashun1180]

Not only did they hunt the Tasmanian tiger to extinction they also exterminated the indigenous population. It’s absolutely sickening and barbaric!

[@sg-yq8pm]

The indigenous population were not ''exterminated'', nor are they extinct, learn your history rather than using inaccurate language to support your simplistic thought processes.

[@TheFrogfeeder]

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but wouldn’t “hunting to extinction” and “exterminating the population” be the same thing?

[@YuSayinFuqery]

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]

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]

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

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@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.

[@Ryne918]

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

[@Somerled_1]

haha and your icon winked too!

[@ricktaylor3748]

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

[@gointothedogs4634]

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

[@ricktaylor3748]

@@gointothedogs4634 Who is "us"?

[@NoOneHere2Day]

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

[@McLovin38FFs]

Thylacene never howled the way canids do!

[@KhanMann66]

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

[@bolbyballinger]

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]

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

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@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]

@@zxyatiywariii8 there are NO foxes in tasmania

[@WorldView22]

People need to stop treating animals like humans and humans like animals.

[@WatchDanReviews]

Really hope they still exist. Such a cool animal!

[@danielcharles-b5f]

“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.

[@sg-yq8pm]

The majority of Tasmania is not ''lush'', let alone ''so lush''.

[@craig9563]

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

[@rosariodagosto6484]

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

[@CowboyJojosAdventures]

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

[@generationfallout5189]

10:11 i enjoy this mans intelligence and insights on the topic. He seems to be very passionate and knowledgeable. We have to look after our world better. The true wealth is the health of our environment and all the various species add up to make the world a better, more interesting place.

[@BasicUniversalEconomics]

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]

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

[@pauledwards6446]

Hahaha

[@TheRobojay]

They also say there are no wolves in nevada. I saw a "mexican wolf" in the middle of the night about 50 miles up the 15 from vegas. I saw it super clearly with my headlights as it ran across the road causing me to slam the breaks. It looks a bit like coyotes, but with different features and bigger.

[@effmltalks]

Very interesting. Very sad when species go extinct.

[@richardclark.]

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

[@ThumbBandit04]

@7:17 That's totally one right there!

[@antonio_qp]

I think the same

[@afilthycasualsguidetomma2100]

They don’t howl 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the only description weve ever gotten was “yipping or barking “

[@Shiro087]

When he said plss don't tell my wife you know he's committed

[@gointothedogs4634]

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]

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.

[@james-faulkner]

They do not call them shrimp they call them prawn.

[@gointothedogs4634]

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

[@james-faulkner]

@@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-El]

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

[@james-faulkner]

@@baabaabaa-El Aye.

[@Alberthoward3right9up]

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

[@danielmartin7838]

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]

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]

It's mostly cheese these days.

[@XxBloggs]

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

[@MTG776]

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.

[@timwalsh2983]

West coast of Tasmania is mainly untouched Massive chance there out there still

[@frankm7707]

The first time I heard about Tasmanian Tiger was from watching Wild Kratts. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnshields6852]

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]

Petted too?

[@brandonbeeler2954]

@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSAfeed us skittles 🤣

[@liamgross7217]

I hope they don’t poke us 😬

[@Guidedhunts]

"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]

Same could be said about God creating humanity.

[@Garlic_Bread_1749]

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.

[@rebeccajones6719]

Life....finds a way.

[@leokimvideo]

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.

[@EelisWalking]

Government grants for thylacine searches ended in the 1980s

[@superflyers148]

Hey everyone check out "The Hunter" with William Dafoe. It's a fictional story about trying to find the last Tasmanian Tiger.

[@rustykerr3174]

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]

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

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

Cool and all, but wouldn't it be more productive trying to save the environment for the animals we have left?

[@AFloridaSon]

There's no money in saving animals. They're a for profit business. They will patent the animals and sell them to the highest highest bidders. Colossal is basically a glorified puppy mill.

[@kikiwilson9871]

That poor thing. It was the loneliest animal on the planet....

[@nephos100]

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

[@boosted_l6787]

As soon as I heard his howling I thought crazy

[@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc]

Lol samesies

[@boosted_l6787]

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

[@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc]

​@@boosted_l6787😆 🤣

Life, uh, finds a way

[@robertmurray6340]

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.

[@bradwilliams1691]

Tasmania is still largely untouched by human hands - I agree.

[@BabbittdaWabbitt]

“Well don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone..”

[@jabbablinks]

Is the Tasmanian Tiger does exist they need to leave it alone instead of treating it like a freak show. Also it doesn’t need to be revived because we don’t need to drive it to extinction again. That and the Wooly Mammoth..