Search ongoing for extinct Tasmanian tiger amid efforts to revive species

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

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Thylacines - marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers - were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild are thriving. Scientists are also working to bring back the species.
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@60minutes 2 ай бұрын

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@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

Thanks! Subbed 👍🏽

@benbeck1 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@teodorotaneo1688 Ай бұрын

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

@DavidWilson224 Ай бұрын

hello from Tasmania Australia! :)

@brycepardoe658 2 ай бұрын

I so badly want to believe these creatures still exist

@bunyip7343 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@lanichilds2825 Ай бұрын

Bigfoot

@Slay_No_More Ай бұрын

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

@MattMan01 2 ай бұрын

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

@buxomboba 2 ай бұрын

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

@brianshorey 2 ай бұрын

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

@buxomboba Ай бұрын

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

@brianshorey Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

@@brianshoreyWell said.

@JD-qh3sd 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@bluexwings Ай бұрын

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

@davida.4933 Ай бұрын

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 26 күн бұрын

@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 22 күн бұрын

@@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.

@sarantissporidis391 2 ай бұрын

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

@maximusolivia9982 2 ай бұрын

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

@indiopeninsulares6723 2 ай бұрын

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

@sarantissporidis391 Ай бұрын

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

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@taylork3043 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

Exactly, clone

@da6640 2 ай бұрын

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

@lantrick 2 ай бұрын

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

@Skywatchers 2 ай бұрын

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

@chewy99. 2 ай бұрын

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

@TheECSH 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@TheECSH 2 ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@JoniusGnome Ай бұрын

I live in Tasmania. A lot of the landscape here is rugged, steep and inaccessible, with quickly changing weather patterns. I believe the Thylacine still exists. Many extinct species have been found in remote places, look at the Coelacanth, the prehistoric fish found still alive and kicking.

@tehmtbz Ай бұрын

There's a guy here on KZfaq, a biologist I iirc, who means to collect enough money to, at some point, travel to an area of Tasmania he has identified as inaccessible to any natural predators, and well-removed from any human populations. He says he doesn't want to go there until he has the money to do it right so he can feel certain one way or the other. Incredible prospect. He feels it's very likely still alive. I hope I live to see it.

@jillianj310 Ай бұрын

@@tehmtbzi saw this, I thought it was in papau new guinea where the singing dogs were rediscovered. And it was a tribe member who had one as a pet! But extremely interesting either way.

@alfredvalrie5541 Ай бұрын

The problem is that the Tiger is megafauna which preferred grasslands not mountains.

@JoniusGnome Ай бұрын

@@alfredvalrie5541 Tasmanian Tiger was too small to prey on Megafauna.

@jillianj310 Ай бұрын

@@alfredvalrie5541 to be fair, I think they said it might be a close cousin of the Tasmanian tiger. Like a slightly differently evolved version.

@JMcKey21 Ай бұрын

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

@donnievance1942 27 күн бұрын

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.

@spaceace1006 10 күн бұрын

In America we've got Posssums! Though not Marsupials, we also have Trash Pandas!! I think that in the Americas, Possums are the only marsupial!

@LemurianMermaid 7 күн бұрын

That is wildly Amazing!!

@tourdegadetheskankslayer1065 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

😂 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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@joedennehy386 2 ай бұрын

Richo was pranked

@DonutCrazyYT Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@MeadowDay Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@steverichardson6920 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@leonardotheuseless4188 Ай бұрын

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

@bolbyballinger Ай бұрын

@@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.

@JLYVE89 Ай бұрын

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

@TopFix Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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_ 14 күн бұрын

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 9 күн бұрын

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

@kikigood7567 2 ай бұрын

Deer actually make some crazy loud weird sounds just not often

@anthonyhardt1994 2 ай бұрын

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

@KhanMann66 2 ай бұрын

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

@creeperFIN123 Ай бұрын

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

@wahoonbox Ай бұрын

You are so correct

@fazofiguer0996 14 күн бұрын

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

@CompoundingTime 2 ай бұрын

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

@Yogachara 2 ай бұрын

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

@andrewchalmers7422 2 ай бұрын

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

@Legiey 2 ай бұрын

💀

@HanginOffThaReel 2 ай бұрын

Exact same! Lol @@Yogachara

@pichan8841 Ай бұрын

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

@bradwilliams1691 Ай бұрын

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 28 күн бұрын

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

@nunliski 11 күн бұрын

It was not a thylacine.

@Lebofly 7 күн бұрын

@@nunliski Prove it

@nunliski 7 күн бұрын

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

@captmulch1 2 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, the annual Tasmanian Tiger story …

@Gigglypuffx3 Ай бұрын

Lmao

@ricardorascon88 Ай бұрын

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

@mrjames-hc7nu 27 күн бұрын

@@ricardorascon88relax buddy you only exist because of European spanish people 😂😂

@ricardorascon88 27 күн бұрын

@@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 14 күн бұрын

It could be chupacobra.

@markleon411 2 ай бұрын

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.

@ricardorascon88 Ай бұрын

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

@TopFix Ай бұрын

@no_name787-fs3yk Ай бұрын

Not my fault 🤷

@tommc3622 25 күн бұрын

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 24 күн бұрын

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

@dislikebutton4593 Ай бұрын

Tasmania native here, these creatures still exist. But they are very rare. I’ve seen 2 in my lifetime while out and about.

@tomodomo7675 Ай бұрын

Dang, you could've been famous if you had a camera at that time

@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn 28 күн бұрын

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

@bbllaakkeeee 27 күн бұрын

@@tomodomo7675I’m absolutely certain they have photos but refuse to disclose it. Think about how many poachers that would show up and think about how bad the government screws up, now you’re giving them something else to muck up.

@mistakemcgee2807 25 күн бұрын

I’d love to hear more about your sightings!

@corey2232 19 күн бұрын

@@bbllaakkeeee No chance. They're not worth anything to anyone dead. If a poacher came & killed the only sighting, who would they sell to? A collector could just pay for one of the many already dead ones if they cared that much.

@elderinmoi1571 Ай бұрын

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 28 күн бұрын

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

@LadyhawksLairDotCom 25 күн бұрын

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

@kellyruddock8822 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@dianagraham4021 Ай бұрын

THANK YOU!

@titaniumquarrion9838 Ай бұрын

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.

@fluxpistol3608 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@Tasmanaut Ай бұрын

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

@rumpeltyltskyn Ай бұрын

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

@Tasmanaut Ай бұрын

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

@rumpeltyltskyn Ай бұрын

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

@mdee8784 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@bradwilliams1691 Ай бұрын

Totally agree.

@xergiok2322 16 күн бұрын

@@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.

@puppetguy8726 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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.

@prameelaramanujan5672 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

There all dead. There isn’t any

@Cloud_JOB 2 ай бұрын

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.

@Abbybabby29 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@richardclark. 2 ай бұрын

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

@Antechynus 2 ай бұрын

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

@badbattleaxe5832 2 ай бұрын

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. 2 ай бұрын

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

@SovietMOB 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@eldiablo3794 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Species have gone extinct since the beginning of time.

@SovietMOB Ай бұрын

@@jgs1703 obviously. 🙄

@ShooterMcGavin-zm6rm Ай бұрын

Was it your Dad?

@sarahbass6116 2 ай бұрын

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

@tornmien 2 ай бұрын

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

@AFloridaSon 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but they're not actually tigers.

@tornmien 2 ай бұрын

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

@Robochop-vz3qm 2 ай бұрын

🤣

@svenmorgenstern9506 2 ай бұрын

But do they like breakfast cereals? 🤷‍♂️

@joshclark756 Ай бұрын

tony the tight is real

@laurieb3703 24 күн бұрын

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 😢

@Bhafez1 2 ай бұрын

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

@comfortablynumb9342 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@liamgross7217 2 ай бұрын

@@OGtruthserumyea, way before the loch was formed.

@KhanMann66 2 ай бұрын

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

@liamgross7217 2 ай бұрын

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

@kobrapromotions 2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@vsznry 2 ай бұрын

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

@danielmartin7838 2 ай бұрын

That was a great movie!

@bryanbaker5730 2 ай бұрын

The Hunter I think!

@atruceforbruce5388 2 ай бұрын

The howling 3 : marsupials, mentions some.

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@stadic5311 Ай бұрын

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

@alejandroguerra6755 Ай бұрын

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

@amycastor2872 2 ай бұрын

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

@enticingmay435 2 ай бұрын

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

@9ofClovers 2 ай бұрын

Press F to pay respect to Harambe

@AFloridaSon 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

@@9ofCloverstoo soon

@radicalsuggestions 2 ай бұрын

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

@jonathanroberts-bj7yl 2 ай бұрын

It’s amazing how long they survived.

@DalazG Ай бұрын

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

@MrPaulviles 2 ай бұрын

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

@johnbwill Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@YortOK Ай бұрын

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

@davida.4933 Ай бұрын

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

@cheshunt5597 2 ай бұрын

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.

@WILD__THINGS 2 ай бұрын

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

@kristaprice1954 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@mrsugar2352 21 күн бұрын

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

@CowboyJojosAdventures Ай бұрын

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

@marleyboy7732 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

Aussies are a blast in general!

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

I LOVE Aussies!

@futureport Ай бұрын

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!

@josh26566 Ай бұрын

@@futureportwhat's a goanna?

@marleyboy7732 Ай бұрын

@@futureport 🤣🤣🤣 crazy

@WorldView22 Ай бұрын

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

@satderry8149 Ай бұрын

Robert Deniro's range is incredible

@chuckjenkins4348 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@YuSayinFuqery 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@danielcharles4451 2 ай бұрын

“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.

@FelixRisingOriginal 13 күн бұрын

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

@WatchDanReviews Ай бұрын

Really hope they still exist. Such a cool animal!

@kathleenmartin7498 2 ай бұрын

I truly do hope they find some who have still survived.

@willyates9176 2 ай бұрын

I hope there are still some around, but I don’t wish them to be found by humans. Look what happened last time. They are only extinct or nearly so because of human intervention.

@andyshriner5443 Ай бұрын

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."

@forgingstrength6119 Ай бұрын

I really hope they are still out there, somewhere.

@quester09 Ай бұрын

thylacine: I'm back! coelacanth:

@craig9563 2 ай бұрын

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

@MarijkeWillemsen990 2 ай бұрын

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

@igorz3551 Ай бұрын

Yeah 😒

@retriever19golden55 Ай бұрын

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

@corey2232 19 күн бұрын

@@retriever19golden55 The government stepped in to preserve them

@jg3000 14 күн бұрын

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

@jg3000 14 күн бұрын

@@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 .

@mypalfootfoot9591 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Same. I hope, but I doubt.

@MTG776 Ай бұрын

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.

@BabbittdaWabbitt Ай бұрын

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

@donjuanako Ай бұрын

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

@4bidden1 Ай бұрын

😂

@brucekuehn4031 2 ай бұрын

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

@marvymarier8988 2 ай бұрын

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"

@BabbittdaWabbitt Ай бұрын

Oh, you beat me to it…Doh !

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

So sad and so true.

@larrymondello8475 25 күн бұрын

Thank you

@ThumbBandit04 6 күн бұрын

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

@chakuseki 2 ай бұрын

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

@maximusolivia9982 2 ай бұрын

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

@aguyinavan6087 2 ай бұрын

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

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

@@maximusolivia9982😆🤣😂

@tituswillow Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣howling😂

@FaydsterTV Ай бұрын

“60% of the time it works every time”

@desiv1170 2 ай бұрын

"What is the middle ground? You could be right. You could be lying." Um... Pretty obvious that the other option there is: "You could be wrong." What a weird statement...

@hunterurban5465 Ай бұрын

That "zoo" the captive one was housed in looked awful. Poor thing.

@kimberlylewis5820 Ай бұрын

I watched a video not long ago about a potential population that might still exist in New Guinea. The range of the Thylacine extended not only into mainland Australia and when sea levels were lower many of the pacific islands were close enough that animals could more freely migrate.

@winesap2 2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

Life, uh, finds a way

@taramansion Ай бұрын

Idk if I'm on board with 'creating' them, but after watching that sad footage of the last known one in a zoo, it would be cool to know they still exist.

@nephos100 Ай бұрын

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

@Ryne918 2 ай бұрын

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

@Moishe555 2 ай бұрын

haha and your icon winked too!

@ricktaylor3748 2 ай бұрын

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

@gointothedogs4634 2 ай бұрын

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

@ricktaylor3748 2 ай бұрын

@@gointothedogs4634 Who is "us"?

@NoOneHere2Day 2 ай бұрын

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

@richardburgess5865 2 ай бұрын

Thylacene never howled the way canids do!

@KhanMann66 2 ай бұрын

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

@bolbyballinger 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

@@zxyatiywariii8 there are NO foxes in tasmania

@ufocatalunya5693 2 ай бұрын

Yowies are out there too and the academia keeps ignoring the sightings.

@boosted_l6787 2 ай бұрын

As soon as I heard his howling I thought crazy

@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc 2 ай бұрын

Lol samesies

@boosted_l6787 2 ай бұрын

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

@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc 2 ай бұрын

@@boosted_l6787😆 🤣

@minirock000 2 ай бұрын

They do not call them shrimp they call them prawn.

@gointothedogs4634 2 ай бұрын

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

@minirock000 2 ай бұрын

@@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-yp2jh 2 ай бұрын

@@minirock000Naa, we know it's swill!! And the shrimp bit Hoges did was so the Yanks didn't get confused.

@minirock000 2 ай бұрын

@@baabaabaa-yp2jh Aye.

@Alberthoward3right9up 2 ай бұрын

@@baabaabaa-yp2jh seppos aint real smart 😂😂

@adamwest3266 Ай бұрын

I live out here in Washington, in remote forested area. I leave a trash can lid of food outback for Bigfoot every evening. He never uses the fork.

@slyphwing Ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating…

@superflyers148 2 ай бұрын

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

@danielmartin7838 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

It's mostly cheese these days.

@XxBloggs 2 ай бұрын

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

@hin_hale Ай бұрын

So many people out there looking for them and nobody can produce a decent image of one. That is very frustrating and certainly points to them not being out there, in my humble opinion.

@HiImJeff00 Ай бұрын

“Don’t nature mess with animals mess” - a wise person

@andrewkellett6290 Ай бұрын

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.

@BasicUniversalEconomics 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@pauledwards6446 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@TheRobojay 27 күн бұрын

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.

@InfinitelyQurious Ай бұрын

Adrian Richardson's dedication and passion are great. Dude is doing the Lord's work trying to bring attention to a local legend of an animal.

@zxyatiywariii8 Ай бұрын

Yes ❤

@ultragarrison 17 сағат бұрын

Been to Hobart last year. What a beautiful state.

@gointothedogs4634 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@leegalen8383 2 ай бұрын

Gotta love Australians❤

@mitchellulrich930 Ай бұрын

Thylacine, Tasmania's equivalent to our Ivory-billed woodpecker.

@tylahchambers-brennan627 Ай бұрын

They live in mainland australia…I have seen two in central coast Nsw..We have heard them at warnervale train station as well! It sounded like a barky quacky duck !

@rosariodagosto6484 2 ай бұрын

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

@rickh3714 2 ай бұрын

A teardrop of an island- bigger than Switzerland? 🤔 Remember on maps you're comparing it with the Australian mainland-not Bermuda!

@shaundgb7367 2 ай бұрын

I was down Tasmania just over a week ago. Think it bigger than my own state. Took a good six hours drive to go from bottom part of it to the top part of the state. Still not seen the west side of Tasmania. Think that is real wilderness so would not be surprised this Tassie Tiger could exist in an area where not many humans live.

@deejay4837 Ай бұрын

That looked pretty legit...It definitely looked like a Thylacine with that tale floating....

@JacobafJelling Ай бұрын

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

@MrBrenos 2 ай бұрын

A few Tassie boys that go looking for the Tasmanian Tiger stumbled onto tiger footprints a couple of weeks ago. Here’s hoping they are still here

@octavius428ball Ай бұрын

Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂yeh I bet they really did being experts in the field and all 😂😂😂😂

@MrBrenos Ай бұрын

@@octavius428ball yeah so funny champ. Kind of like the animals they have been rediscovered in Tassie after being classed as extinct for over 200 years. Those experts?

@brucewayne3633 Ай бұрын

The footprints looked a bit small, perhaps a possum...

@corey2232 19 күн бұрын

@@octavius428ball I don't think you used enough emojis. How can we tell how funny your comment is with only 10 of them + an "Lmao?"

@effmltalks 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Very sad when species go extinct.

@richardclark. 2 ай бұрын

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

@jonbinki9651 2 ай бұрын

How many tears have you shed for never encountering a saber tooth tiger or a troop of North American Hyena's, during a field walk?

@AMM0beatz Ай бұрын

A presumed extinct bird in cebu, philippines called cebu flowerpecker island in philippines was re-discovered in 1992. They hid in the thick forest and became very elusive. Now there are over 700 kown surviving in the wild.