tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330795933539580290.post8142001382079919534..comments2024-03-08T17:05:32.361-08:00Comments on Malcolm's Musings: Cryptozoology: The Wonthaggi "Monster"Malcolm Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330795933539580290.post-42176047136777848252023-09-18T04:02:14.533-07:002023-09-18T04:02:14.533-07:00Well in 1984 l explained to a friend that the pant...Well in 1984 l explained to a friend that the panther she had seen was infact a large black feral cat.<br />I explained that feral cats had become quite large though evolution of living in the Australian bush. <br />And that is why when a few weeks later while hunting a few minutes drive from her sighting l had a really good look at a panther in the Victorian high country and told nobody. <br />I didn't want the ridicule and Explanations that she got. <br />So l just forgot about it. <br />But the internet has made it possible for me to tell my story to interested parties. <br />I have no doubt that the Tasmanian tiger is alive and well in Gippsland with the occasional sightings and no.proof the same as my panther. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330795933539580290.post-45541700196565007282014-11-20T20:35:58.260-08:002014-11-20T20:35:58.260-08:00Hi Malcolm,
not sure if you're being a bit ton...Hi Malcolm,<br />not sure if you're being a bit tongue-in-cheek with the "case closed" ending your article, but scientifically I would say that is a premature conclusion. You have certainly offered a reasonable-sounding possible explanation, most likely to be aceptable to people who do not like to entertain the notion that there could be unknown animals about, but the fact is none of us actually know what these people saw, and your conclusion is a hypothesis rather than a definitive "case closed" solution.<br />kind regards,<br />ChrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330795933539580290.post-9995025174279652232014-11-20T04:28:15.990-08:002014-11-20T04:28:15.990-08:00Very interested and thought that I'd share.. ...Very interested and thought that I'd share.. <br />I was driving from Cape Paterson to Inverloch in December 2012 with my wife. We always encounter wildlife on the roads like rabbits, wombats, foxes, and Roos so we have a habbit of driving slowly.<br />We got about half way, around "Eagles Nest".<br />Coming around the bend, we saw an animal standing in the middle of the road over a small carcass.<br />This thing was big. It stood like a cat, was way too big to be a wild cat or dog. Big ears and long body.<br />What struck me was the way that it moved. As we got closer, it looked up, paused, and leapt into the scrub with what seemed to be one or two jumps. I'm talking 10 metres! It was too dark to see the colour clearly, but it seemed dark.<br />It also seemed to sum up the situation before it left the carcass, where all other animals flee.<br />Definitely not like any animal I've ever encountered in the wild.<br />Just thought I'd share , because I rarely bring it up because nobody believes us! I always wonder what it was.<br />Shannon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330795933539580290.post-66287150259012320742014-10-23T14:24:38.435-07:002014-10-23T14:24:38.435-07:00I shall be addressing that in my next post but, ba...I shall be addressing that in my next post but, basically, it looked nothing like a Tasmanian tiger. The witnesses never described stripes over the body, but rather, over the head and neck, which is one place they do not exist on a Tasmanian tiger. In later years, people started claiming to have seen thylacines all over the area, as I shall detail in my next post. But, in my opinion, their descriptions were not sufficient.Malcolm Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330795933539580290.post-69121432822018568402014-10-23T10:59:35.701-07:002014-10-23T10:59:35.701-07:00From the description, it seems they may have been ...From the description, it seems they may have been seeing a Tasmanian Tiger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine#mediaviewer/File:Thylacinus.jpg<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com