Seems all the news services are keen to show this footage. Wonder if it would be the same reaction when someone finally gets some decent Yowie footage.
Still reckon it will be from a HD dashcam along our country roads. I'm trying!
I agree that there's a lack of detail and the video is inconclusive...but the people trying to say it's a quoll really need an eye test or something. Whatever it is, it's too big to be a quoll, in my opinion.
The video (that we get to see) is awfully blurry. Difficult to make much of it.
However the colour seems about right (spotted quolls are usually darker) and the size, too.
I wouldn't mind betting that Mr Mooney has suggested a Spotted Tail Quoll in an effort to "hose down" excitement.
This would be to minimize the number of people going out trying to get a better picture.
The footage might be blurry but you can make out the distinctive body features he is describing quite easily.
On the trapping issue, I wonder if they have attempted to procure a licence to trap one alive for scientific verification?
It is not necessary to kill them but taking one alive for temporary study seems feasible.
You can bet that if their existence is proven, someone will ask for money to study numbers and the genetic purity of the modern line compared to samples currently held.
