Tiger Country - 1973

Jeremy Griffith’s search for the Thylacine. From the Big Country TV series 1973

[@leebarnhart831]

What a loss! This animal has captured my imagination and loss all my long life. I live a half a world away and feel like I’ve been robbed of this amazing animal. Forgive us Lord for we know not what we do. We damn near did the same to the buffalo and it lived in herds that would take days to pass. Somehow we eliminated the most abundant animal on Earth, the passenger pidgin , with the rudimentary ways and weapons of the time. Every species we loose is one closer to our own. Thanks for putting this up.

[@lostmangos]

Very well said Lee, it was a great loss to us as a species.

[@kevinstandow2943]

There’s massive areas that they could be doing well as natives have said to Forest the top guy looking for them and endangered to one’s thought gone if he finds a lead , Just saw him the other day in Australia , I spaced his last name , French sounding though he looks Scottish 😅! Had shows or specials on tv and on Joe Rogan speaking on a multitude of topics and he is in the midst of generating a pretty big amount for a excursion proof he says of them with some tribes . Or seen regularly too. Hope they can find and help them come back . A good movie with William Defoe of Platoon fame and many more hits in the movies as he goes there to try and find one and others want the DNA for what’s unprecedented and a huge step towards a cure or something, Saw bits of but looked good . Sam O’Neil in it too of Jurassic Park .

[@thevandieman7742]

Wow thank you very much for uploading this, a great look into Tassie history, I believe the old blokes in the pub I've talked to men just like them.

[@AFloridaSon]

There's lots of great prints that's been cast. And although there's no perfect pics or videos, there are some very interesting pics and videos, that do have more of an appearance of a Tasmanian tiger, than anything else.

[@beaucatt7325]

Brilliant Never seen this one. The fella that heard them fight should help replicate the sounds he heard

[@andrewturk6562]

Or stop drinking to much plonk

[@banetrstenik85]

BIG thumbs up and hello from Serbia :)

[@sunnyreeve4897]

what about the ones that have been seen in the Flinders Ran ges

[@sunnyreeve4897]

.what Have remotecameras shown?

[@andrewmurray3945]

Fantastic old documentary of two guys who were seriously looking for Thylacines... bloody shame they didn't have the amazing camera-traps we use today back in the early 1970's

[@DarkMedic]

good thing no-one can find it

[@Richard-gy1pq]

Some can! 😮

[@colta51]

Would like to see the records of the sales of the other 12 thylacines from Hobart zoo one year before Benjamin died!

[@jordanmaczkowiack4899]

Brilliant upload mate.

[@ianatkins1213]

I’ve seen survival odds ranging from one million to one, down to ten to one. While there is a slim chance thylacines are out there, it now seems unlikely. Sad, thylacines were treated so badly and were harassed to extinction. From old newspapers, population was under pressure from late 19th century but likely survived much later than when the last one died in captivity. 😢

[@sidstevens9035]

A very comprehensive attempt to prove that they still existed. Enough in fact to prove it one way or the other. It doesn't bode well for the Tiger that nothing came of it especially as it was less than forty years after the last one was alive.

[@Tasmanaut]

no one has full explored the southwest. You cannot say there has been a comprehensive and exhaustive effort to find one.

[@MrMpk0303]

@@Tasmanautthey have lately. Many KZbin docs tracking them past 4 years with nothing

[@Tasmanaut]

@@MrMpk0303 tell me you don't live here without telling me you don't live here. Some random hikers making videos of their expedition is not a comprehensive investigation.

[@grantcarncross5380]

We are always afraid of the things we don't totally understand, it's a sad fact of human nature.

[@DarkMedic]

Probably existed till the early 2000s late 90s

[@jordanmaczkowiack4899]

Think our only hope left is PNG.

[@davida.4933]

Not necessarily, there are so many sightings still from Tasmania and mainland AU. We'll have a better judgement on this for sure by the end of this decade as there are some pretty intensive searches being conducted now and over the next five plus years. My guess is there will be almost1500 trail cameras in Tasmania alone and that is the level of survey required. However, the large remote areas of Tasmania will still be under surveyed so the mystery will likely endure even if all this effort still does not produce a positive unambiguous result. Mainland AU is another challenge altogether as is PNG. If I had to guess, I'd estimate a very low continuing population in Tasmania, and widely scattered low populations in mainland AU. If searchers had unlimited time and resources I would bet more on mainland AU than Tasmania. I don't know enough about PNG to comment, other than to guess it would seem to be a reasonable possibility given some sightings and the historic range.

[@jordanmaczkowiack4899]

@@davida.4933 everyone entitled to there opinion. I used to believe but I just don’t think there’s any chance in aus at all anymore, and I believe all but gone on mainland.

[@fredie464646]

It's All Hush Hush now. Keep everything quiet. No pictures. No films A national park ranger in mount kosiosko national park is convinced he saw a Tiger. This land is isolated

[@ufocatalunya5693]

I’m sure they are still out there, there are Yowies and Dogman in Australia and yet the mainstream science don’t look for them…officially

[@andrewturk6562]

Mate you would have the day of work if you had one just old drunks

[@danielthompson9659]

there is a video from 1973 that was filmed in south australia that is really the only video that you can pretty say captured an actual thylacine so they were definitely still around in the 70s, but nowadays who knows

[@sidstevens9035]

Have seen them all but never one that even halfway showed a Tiger !

[@jordanmaczkowiack4899]

Are you talking about the Doyles?

[@truetoskyblue6952]

They were almost certainly around in the 1980s, with the well documented sighting from a national parks ranger. Some people believe they could still be around deep in South West national park.

[@fredie464646]

​@@truetoskyblue6952 mount kosiosko national park ranger claim they saw a Tiger

[@stevenpiralis9889]

Its all very sad isnt it.. What a mess that has been created..

[@grantcarncross5380]

I think it was an animal on the very edge in the first place, the Tiger was on the mainland at one Stage. And disappeared. I am very sorry but if they where still around someone some where would have found evidence. I think the man from the 1860s had the foresite to see even back then the animal was on the edge. You can't bring them back with DNA the host animal isn't a Tasmanian tiger. If we had a living female it would change everything. But unfortunately we destroyed this once great animal with lack of knowledge that it was a sheep killer. Abit like the German Shepherd dog which was banned importation in this country for 50 year's. For what because of some stupid farmers who have stupid beliefs.

[@Richard-gy1pq]

Why would anyone go out of their way to report it for fun.