The Queensland Marsupial Tiger was almost believed and accepted by the scientific establishment, as many eyewitnesses and skins were recorded. They were incredibly savage- and it is believed they still exist today! My Cryptozoology book Out Of The Shadows (by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper) has an entire chapter devoted to it- and didn't include it in the Alien big cats part of book- as many had been shot- and was accepted by most as a normal animal...
Where did the skins disappear? Have any skeletons or footprints been recorded? I would love to believe such animals still exist, but its apparent that if they do exist that they are super rare.
@@haza8137 Yeah I wished they'd kept the skins too.. they degrade over time- especially in the tropics of North Queensland unfortunately... Google Queensland Tiger sightings, you'll read about the latest alledged sightings.. It never made sense to me that Australia has only Dingoes as it's only large carnivores.. Nature is always in balance (untill humans interfere) so a large continent full of herbivores needs carnivores to keep the balance .. 🤷 Edit, the Aboriginals were very scared of them- as they were very elusive and savage, and would kill their pet Dingoes - and a man too... 😳
@@haza8137 , it seems the thylacoleos, like the thylacines, always were rare. it is now obvious that there was less forested land when the white man first invaded the country. the abos used regular burning to turn all useful land into a giant kangaroo farm. when the white man came here he prevented a lot of the burning off. which allowed forests to re-establish where there hadnt been forests for hundreds or thousands of years. modern people used to question the observations of the early explorers who crossed the blue mountains and the other pioneers who ventured further. tests of mud in lakes and swamps proved their observations to be honest.
Zeb Jefferies (1923), Marsupial Tiger, was on display at the herberton post office until the stink got to much. The old people described it as having tusks that protruded from its lower jaw.
There was plenty of newspaper interest at the time. Nanna was only young, but she remembered the pong, the locals disagreed over what the animal was, the description was 2 side by side teeth that protruded from its lower jaw described as tusks. It wasn't big, the size of a cat. The markings description vary from no marks to spots to large stripes( however it was in a decomposed state, that's how long it was displyed). Zeb skinned it, to send the pelt down to Cairns, as there was an expedition up here then looking for them, but the dogs got too it. I've often wondered if somewhere there a weird skull sitting in an old shed. Up here you hear about native cats (Quolle) and tiger cats, something much savager, the aboriginals call them yarri yarri (scary scary), whether that's reference to a scary story or a scary animal, I couldn't say.
@@nigelbowe6688 , so you got it from a close relative that it all happened. not good enough for "experts" like mike archer though. so who is zeb jefferies? i thank you for this special information.. also, i found mention in a 60 year old walkabout magazine about thylacoleo type creatures seen on magnetic island.
I live in Cairns but born in Tasmania, my grandfather was with his 3 sons , driving late in the afternoon in the 60s and he said to me that he see what he thought it was a kangaroo but it had strips on its back, so it was on all 4s and jumped off one side bank off the road and landed on its two hind legs like a kangaroo in the middle of the road and then jumped into the bushes on the other side ,
The famous Drop Bear. What ever happened to all the skins of these slain animals? On the one hand people said they would be worth a fortune, then on the other they have been shot and the skins have just disappeared. How exasperating is that? It is the same scenario over and over through out Ozzie history.
Given the genetic disposition (the progeny of convicts, who couldn't lie well enough to avoid deportation) it's not unexpected these very cash valuable collectors' items are seen and shot yet lost to science.
I spent 18 months in the FNQ jungle, tablelands, and around the inland cape just before the Plandemic . I’m an army veteran so very used to the environment and went there to get away with the dog for a while. I heard a cry some nights I never heard before while we were very very remote North West of Mt Garnet. The dog chased something one day it went down a ledge and onto a tree and down the side of the cliff face like a mountain goat. And took off into the bush dogs a ridgeback so he’s a big dog this thing looked like it had stripes and moved “ like a cat “ but NOT the same, it ran different and it’s face was flatter. Saw it for maybe 5 seconds then gone. Brown with dirty yellow beige stripes on its rear end and mottled up its back. But not like a leopard. I asked a couple of old black fellas about it in the pub a few weeks later in Normanton they said it was a tiger and they hunt from the trees old people used to hunt them because they were dangerous. So they went away from the people but are STILL out in country so you don’t walk at night under the trees. I always thought there could be animals out in our most hard to reach country the simple size to population and terrain issues make it , to me anyway, perfectly feasible. I have been in some of this country’s most remote place for extended periods of time alone ( just the dog) There are simply many many places white man or any man for that matter, has ever stepped. I’m lucky enough to have been to some of those places.
G'day @NedKelly1967 , that's awesome , can i make a video about what you have written or maybe a phone interview , you can be totally anonymous , have a great day jamie
this sounds like the species of thylacoleo that is in the "rilla's critter" photo, as opposed to the dark creatures seen by dennis wright in his book thylacoleo lives.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast , you didnt expect me to be here? oh come on now! you are the only person who knew exactly what my id photo was. and a pleasure it is to meet you here. tantanoola tigers is one of my favourite favourite channels. he fills a niche that no-one has done. it pays respect to witnesses of the past which modern "experts" would dispute. he seems to have a never-ending supply of material. but i prefer demo dave's channel! honest!
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast,a late thought. because of a delivery buggerup, i ended up with 2 copies of dennis wright's thylacoleo lives. if you can direct me to a po box number i'll send it to you if you like.
Love the videos ur the man!
The Queensland Marsupial Tiger was almost believed and accepted by the scientific establishment, as many eyewitnesses and skins were recorded. They were incredibly savage- and it is believed they still exist today! My Cryptozoology book Out Of The Shadows (by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper) has an entire chapter devoted to it- and didn't include it in the Alien big cats part of book- as many had been shot- and was accepted by most as a normal animal...
for those of you who havent read that book, it is probably the best on this subject.
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Yes- very well researched and valid. 👍
Where did the skins disappear?
Have any skeletons or footprints been recorded? I would love to believe such animals still exist, but its apparent that if they do exist that they are super rare.
@@haza8137
Yeah I wished they'd kept the skins too.. they degrade over time- especially in the tropics of North Queensland unfortunately...
Google Queensland Tiger sightings, you'll read about the latest alledged sightings..
It never made sense to me that Australia has only Dingoes as it's only large carnivores..
Nature is always in balance (untill humans interfere) so a large continent full of herbivores needs carnivores to keep the balance .. 🤷
Edit, the Aboriginals were very scared of them- as they were very elusive and savage, and would kill their pet Dingoes - and a man too... 😳
@@haza8137 , it seems the thylacoleos, like the thylacines, always were rare. it is now obvious that there was less forested land when the white man first invaded the country. the abos used regular burning to turn all useful land into a giant kangaroo farm. when the white man came here he prevented a lot of the burning off. which allowed forests to re-establish where there hadnt been forests for hundreds or thousands of years. modern people used to question the observations of the early explorers who crossed the blue mountains and the other pioneers who ventured further. tests of mud in lakes and swamps proved their observations to be honest.
Zeb Jefferies (1923), Marsupial Tiger, was on display at the herberton post office until the stink got to much.
The old people described it as having tusks that protruded from its lower jaw.
nigel bowe, what?!!! tusks?!!! wild pigs dont have stripes so its not a pig. what is that reference to zeb jefferies? i'd like to search that up.
There was plenty of newspaper interest at the time.
Nanna was only young, but she remembered the pong, the locals disagreed over what the animal was, the description was 2 side by side teeth that protruded from its lower jaw described as tusks.
It wasn't big, the size of a cat.
The markings description vary from no marks to spots to large stripes( however it was in a decomposed state, that's how long it was displyed).
Zeb skinned it, to send the pelt down to Cairns, as there was an expedition up here then looking for them, but the dogs got too it.
I've often wondered if somewhere there a weird skull sitting in an old shed.
Up here you hear about native cats (Quolle) and tiger cats, something much savager, the aboriginals call them yarri yarri (scary scary), whether that's reference to a scary story or a scary animal, I couldn't say.
@@nigelbowe6688 , so you got it from a close relative that it all happened. not good enough for "experts" like mike archer though. so who is zeb jefferies? i thank you for this special information.. also, i found mention in a 60 year old walkabout magazine about thylacoleo type creatures seen on magnetic island.
There are reports of many roo carcasses found stashed high up in tree's, upstream from Wallaman falls in northern Queensland.
I live in Cairns but born in Tasmania, my grandfather was with his 3 sons , driving late in the afternoon in the 60s and he said to me that he see what he thought it was a kangaroo but it had strips on its back, so it was on all 4s and jumped off one side bank off the road and landed on its two hind legs like a kangaroo in the middle of the road and then jumped into the bushes on the other side ,
Her said it was a Tasmania tiger , not sure where it was , but maybe in cockle creek Tasmania???
The famous Drop Bear. What ever happened to all the skins of these slain animals? On the one hand people said they would be worth a fortune, then on the other they have been shot and the skins have just disappeared. How exasperating is that? It is the same scenario over and over through out Ozzie history.
Given the genetic disposition (the progeny of convicts, who couldn't lie well enough to avoid deportation) it's not unexpected these very cash valuable collectors' items are seen and shot yet lost to science.
I spent 18 months in the FNQ jungle, tablelands, and around the inland cape just before the Plandemic . I’m an army veteran so very used to the environment and went there to get away with the dog for a while.
I heard a cry some nights I never heard before while we were very very remote North West of Mt Garnet.
The dog chased something one day it went down a ledge and onto a tree and down the side of the cliff face like a mountain goat. And took off into the bush dogs a ridgeback so he’s a big dog this thing looked like it had stripes and moved “ like a cat “ but NOT the same, it ran different and it’s face was flatter. Saw it for maybe 5 seconds then gone. Brown with dirty yellow beige stripes on its rear end and mottled up its back. But not like a leopard.
I asked a couple of old black fellas about it in the pub a few weeks later in Normanton they said it was a tiger and they hunt from the trees old people used to hunt them because they were dangerous. So they went away from the people but are STILL out in country so you don’t walk at night under the trees.
I always thought there could be animals out in our most hard to reach country the simple size to population and terrain issues make it , to me anyway, perfectly feasible.
I have been in some of this country’s most remote place for extended periods of time alone ( just the dog)
There are simply many many places white man or any man for that matter, has ever stepped. I’m lucky enough to have been to some of those places.
G'day @NedKelly1967 , that's awesome , can i make a video about what you have written or maybe a phone interview , you can be totally anonymous , have a great day
jamie
Can you describe the facial features of the animal? Was the head different from a big cats?
More power to your elbow Jamie ! Great stuff 👍, thanks Coll 🏴🇬🇧
We have the " Speewah Tiger " here in FNQ.
this sounds like the species of thylacoleo that is in the "rilla's critter" photo, as opposed to the dark creatures seen by dennis wright in his book thylacoleo lives.
Fancy meeting you here!
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast , you didnt expect me to be here? oh come on now! you are the only person who knew exactly what my id photo was. and a pleasure it is to meet you here. tantanoola tigers is one of my favourite favourite channels. he fills a niche that no-one has done. it pays respect to witnesses of the past which modern "experts" would dispute. he seems to have a never-ending supply of material. but i prefer demo dave's channel! honest!
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast,a late thought. because of a delivery buggerup, i ended up with 2 copies of dennis wright's thylacoleo lives. if you can direct me to a po box number i'll send it to you if you like.
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