Photo from open source Tilacin, or Tasmanian wolf, represents marsupial mammal, still relatively recently living in Australia and currently considered extinct. According to official information, the last representative of this species died from old age in 1936 at a private zoo in an Australian city Hobart. However, since then there have been periodic reports that Tilacins are seen in the wild.
So, in 2008, a woman living in southern Victoria made The video below. According to an eyewitness, she saw striped marsupials in this area about a dozen times. Despite the fact that the video was received as much as eight years ago, he surfaced on the World Wide Web just now when Australian the researchers decided to make of it something like a documentary movie with expert comments.
A photo from open sources
The record clearly shows a large dog-shaped animal with wide neck and long tail. The beast moves in leaps and generally looks very stocky, so it’s impossible to confuse with a fox, a dog or a hyena. Unfortunately, the video quality is still not so tall to see if the creatures have brown transverse stripes on the back. However, experts say: even the features of the gait of an animal captured on a roller, enough to call him tilacin.
Experts say: “In fact, there is nothing special startling. We are not talking about a bigfoot, but about real animal, which began to be considered extinct for less than a century back. However, Australia is huge and there are many wild regions where people do not step at all. Maybe there really inhabited by a small population of Tasmanian wolves that are like usually beware of the person and prefer not to approach him. I must admit that the woman who received this video is very lucky. ”
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