The last known confirm Tasmanian tiger died in 1936 at Hobart zoo , Australia . However , there ’s been go back reported sighting in the state of nature of this expose beast ever since .
Anew video(below ) has been released appear to show the Tasmanian tiger ( Thylacinus genus Cynocephalus ) , also known as a thylacine , roaming around South West Victoria . The grainy footage was said to be film at dusk , around 200 meters ( 660 feet ) aside from the beast . It follows on fromanother video(see bottom of pageboy ) released to begin with this month claiming to show a Tasmanian Panthera tigris in a suburban area , rooting around trash cans in a front garden .
Dr Cath Temper , a mammal expert from the South Australian Museum , told theBBCthat the latest footage " could really be anything " .
She add up : “ There ’s never been a thylacine specimen from the mainland . But you never know , it would be arrogant if I say there was no fortune . "
Nevertheless , the group behind the television remain adamant that small pocket of Tasmanian Panthera tigris populations have live in mainland Australia . Thylacine Awareness Group of Australiaargue since this carnivorous pouched mammal was an solar apex vulture and able to labor burrows , it ’s likely it could thrive yet rest untraced in the vast Australian outback .
" scientific discipline does n’t want to touch it so it comes down to unbalanced people spending their own time and money look for them – such as myself , " the grouping ’s founder Neil Waters told theHuffington Post .
" We need self-coloured DNA evidence like hair or scat singing or sadly a roadkill carcase until they ’ll even opine about it . "
Aside from the farinaceous video footage and fuzzy eyewitness anecdotes , there ’s little - to - no hard grounds around . In 2005 , Australian magazine Bulletin and a Tasmanian tour hustler put up areward of AUS $ 3 million(US $ 2.2 million ) for the live capture of a thylacine . The offer fell flat and no evidence at all was brought onward .
For the meantime , it seems like story of the Tasmanian tiger will have to continue in the realm of rumour and cryptozoology , alongside the Loch Ness Monster , chupacabra , or Bigfoot .
