Thylacine photographs? Very interesting.

[Shazzoir]

Hey everyone,
there's an interesting thread over at Cryptozoology.com with pics that are very interesting - possible Thylacine.... poster says creature was photographed in Victoria but posts a map of NSW.... he may be talking about two different areas.

http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topi ... pid=729131

Images from the thread are reproduced here:

[Ella]

Well, to me the animal looks like a pit bulldog or some other kind of bulldog. As for the stripes, they could have been added to the photo. I'm in Texas, but this does not resemble any old photos of the thylacine that I've ever seen. I'll bet it's just another hoax.

[deadpool]

It seems to conform with what the Thylacine looks like. Elongated snout, long thin tail, stripes along its hindquarters. Survey says its 90% real. My Bull***t-o-meter isn't going off as it does when I see such an obviously fake/frauded photo.

[Shazzoir]

I also thought it was a dog, and something with pricked ears, so a bull terrier cross or something fits the bill, as does a Pit. I actually wondered if it was manipulated with a computer programme (Photoshop), because I can clearly see stripes, but the ears aren't rounded and the muzzle doesn't look long enough to me, though it does have massive lower jaw musculature at the angle of the jawbone...

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Shazz

[Ella]

I would sure hope it was a Thylacine, but just doesn't look like a photo of one of the last real ones in captivity that I've seen. But if it were, it would mean that a few have survived! Just that the head IMO is totally wrong. But we could keep our fingers crossed.

[AL Pitman]

Having worked with sheep dogs in the past the head is very Kelpie like but its the tail that makes me uncertain , it just appears to be to long for the average Kelpie , almost Kangaroo in its dimensions this was a trait attributed to the Tasmanian strain of the Thylacine .



MY FINAL DECISION IS MAYBE ( et al the rear of a wicked camper )

[forestguy]

Stripes seem a bit close? Almost like they're drawn on?

[SAB 8]

This image just doesn`t sit right with me. It looks totally unnatural to its surroundings. Not to mention its awkward-ghostly appearance.

[Ella]

The muzzle looks way too short to me too, and the shape of the head looks wrong--only judging from old photgraphs I've seen of the Thylacine in captivity taken many decades ago. If I had to bet either way, I'd have to say it was a dog and that the stripes are false.