Part 10 Thylacine - Animal X Natural Mystery Unit

The Animal X - Natural Mystery Unit puts its investigative skills to the ultimate test trying to track down a live Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger as they are also known. Experts say the last of its kind died in an Australian zoo in the 1930's, but many believe this the last of the great meat eating marsupials is still alive and well.

Daniel and Natalie head into the wild Western Australian bush to talk with a farmer who swears he has seen the creature dozens of times stalking prey on his property. They discover footprints and scats that are just hours old. Could these have been made by a creature said to be extinct for 70 years?

As they travel this vast country meeting eyewitnesses, the evidence becomes more and more compelling. Dan and Nat uncover secret documents suggesting a population of Tasmanian Tigers was secretly released onto the mainland over 100 years ago. They meet a man who claims he wrestled with the creature and a respected wildlife officer who describes how he watched a Thylacine walking through the Tasmanian bush.
If it is out there, many believe that Tasmania's pro-logging policy will eventually kill off any chance the species has for survival. Is the government trying to keep the existence of the Thylacine hidden? Many think so.
Is the Thylacine still out there? The Animal X - Natural Mystery Unit investigates.

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[PaulTRW]

It's so odd that one person made 60 sightings and another had over 20, and neither bothered to buy a camera.

[HavokIsLord0120]

I wonder if the Australian government paid them under the table to report inconclusive so that they could continue that brutal method if logging on Tasmania. Remember folks, the government is our enemy!

[xWolfHauntx]

@EratoTiaTuatha Plus, skins go through a lot to be turned into hides, lots of preserving stuff rubbed on them and such, and that washes away all original scent, and bones are normally boiled or cleaned some other way, which also cleans away all original scent, and bones are the worst and keep scents in the first place. So yes, that would be a wonderful idea, if we had Thyla scent. =/ I believe that's why no one's tried it, I mean dogs are good, but they aren't magic. =(

[xWolfHauntx]

@EratoTiaTuatha I agree that Bloodhounds would be the best option, IF we had the Thylacine's scent. Unfortunately, all we have are a few fetuses, skins, and bones. NONE of those which would carry the original animal's scent anymore. The fetuses would smell like preservatives, and the skins and bones would smell like wherever they've been for the last 80 or so years.

[DestrIGNo101]

well that's a shame isn't it?



[tiffinmaster]

This was an okay documentary but I can't help feeling that this for any naturalist is a very attractive scenario. I am positive that Thylacine are still alive and well as we know very little and are a wholly ignorant species. If I lived there I would not go anywhere without a camera and the people who live there owe it to the Thylacine to prove that this animal still exists and then those beautiful forests can be protected from loggers, So why don't they?

[1jenstar]

Keep hunting

[HairyScronch]

I'm not understanding why they left the camera's in painfully obvious places..

[derthensbane]

this is dumb. If you really want a good chance of finding one you need to go bush, not a couple of cameras on the outskirts, go deep into the bush. Those two city slickers never had a chance.

[66fiveandahalf]

How come the old man glows like RuPaul?

[bishbangboosh]

awww. was really rooting for them to find something.

[EratoTiaTuatha]

@sonbuhitsunei Agreed. Animals are best at tracking animals, we humans should just get over it, cause it will take long years before our technology is anything close to their level. Actually, one thing I'm thinking now is - is it possible that nobody's done it yet?