Is The Tasmanian Tiger ALIVE In Papua New Guinea?

Is The Tasmanian Tiger ALIVE In Papua New Guinea?

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Do we think the Thylacine is still in Papua New Guinea? Comment Below! 👇👇

[BoonsackBush]

I’m from Tasmania and my godmother lived in a large part of the Tarkine Forrest. Actually in a trapper lodge. She said the last time she’d seen one was around 1996 lounging on a dirt road used for logging.

[colbykinney]

The Saola or " Asian unicorn " is a 250lb forest dwelling bovine that was discovered in Central Vietnam in 1992. If a critter that size in a country with that population that large could go undetected gives me hope that the Thylacine could still be alive in someplace as remote as Papua New Guinea or in other remote regions.

[immortal]

If anyones life was on the line, you would obviously say no. It’s the safe choice. But I think it’s still possible. The New Guinea Singing Dog was found after being extinct for several decades

[rb]

My best mate is from the highlands in PNG before he was adopted by a biologist in the west. He hears stories from family to this day and tells me himself that when he visits there are still tylacine roaming the jungles.

[lorko]

YES: I've flown over the PNG Highlands. You've got no idea how dense, remote and rugged it is. Insanely steep jungle covered mountains so high they disappear into the clouds, occasionally getting snow on their peaks.
The US War Graves people are STILL there looking for missing WWII aeroplanes. If there's an undiscovered animal anywhere in the world it's in PNG.
As for no reported sightings;
By who, to who?
There's 600 different languages, no two the same. The tribes hate each other and don't communicate. No two major towns are connected by roads. Inter city travel is by boat, plane or foot but not road.
There's uncontacted tribes and Cannibalism in the mountains behind Lae (they still eat their recently deceased relatives) I've been there.
The common language is Pidgin which doesn't exactly have a word for Thylacine.
I'll try;
Doc imi got long strip long arse long bodi blong im.
Or
Wun pella doc imi be lookum samesame long wunpla cat
Not exactly a concise description that would make the scientific community say "can you repeat that please"
Nowadays there's more Thylacine sightings in the tropical far north of Queensland than there are in Tasmania. So, I reckon if they're in Qld then they're in PNG for sure.
PS
I have a friend, an Aussie soldier who was hiking on the Kokoda track in the highlands. He turns off the track to take a leak from off of a cliff. He swears he stumbled onto a perched pterodactyl! He was within six foot of it. It was startled and took to flight. He would've lost his job if he told anybody so he didn't. But several years later he told me.

[lorrietsaoussis]

I have a funny feeling that there in PNG it's a big remote place there probably in the mountains were people can't go often or in the valleys people haven't been

[nixequestrian]

Personally I think it is "possible" they are still alive in PNG, but it isn't "probable"- so if it was a million dollar answer, then it'd have to be a 'No' from me- like you say there simply is not the evidence to support them still being alive at this point in time... however I would revise that answer back to 'possible' IF & only IF no one has actually done a decent search for them over there in the last 100 years.

[milkybar]

I disagree with you. It took over 200 years for the gorilla to be fully recognized by main stream science.

[Apopateus]

New Guinea is an island 11.5 larger than Tasmania with low population density (like Tasmania as well) and vast areas of unexplored forests. If we consider that a leopard in an island in Zanzibar 41!!! times smaller than Tasmania and double population was thought extinct for 25 years, then we have a good chance to find a thylacine in New Guinea. So the probabilities in terms of size exploration and population in in thylacine's favour.
What is not in thylacine's favour though, is the animal's physiology. What I mean by that: Thylacine was/is an ancient type of mammal, with much smaller brain than dogs, weaker jaws and lesser adaptability. That's why it was extirpated from north to south until it found refuge in Tasmania where there were not dogs. In New Guinea there are dogs similar to dingos and this isn't good for thylacines. On the other hand, wild singing dogs are very rare too. So who really knows... We can only hope.

[Bexamina]

Yes. Based on Forest's video about it. He was very convincing. I hope he can get out there & find one & take you along. ☺️

[pavlovssheep]

thylacine sightings on Australian main land, have been increasing since the erection of the dingo fence, so maybe there was a relic population of mainland thylacine that has slowly been increasing with the reduction of dingo competition

[noahwatson.]

If you think about it, if tribes of people can be found living in a jungle undiscovered for hundreds of years? Then a animal the size of a dog can go undiscovered ! Just a thought.

[devinfinall]

Hay I live in Papua New guinea and I've been to a lot of remote places in PNG and in those remote places all most no one has phones. So there could be dobsegna here but no one has a phone

[catco]

It’s probably a banded palm civet (Hemigalus derbyanus), which superficially resembles the thylacine and is native to southeast Asia. However, it’s range does not reach past Borneo.

[mosherj]

The Dorcopsulus Wallaby was recently discovered in Papua Neu Guinee, and just this century several large mammals have been discovered in Vietnam, Papua Neu Guinee, Brazil, and various other parts of the world.
The remains of a Saola were discovered in Vietnam in 1992 but a living specimen wasn't spotted and photographed until 2010. Larger mammals are out there so there is a chance, no matter how small, the Thylacine might still be out there too.

[peterdowsley]

PNG possibly.. I think there's an extremely high chance of Thylacine here in Tasmania.. When you consider such large areas of the place is so densely covered with rainforest or vegetation so thick its impenetrable or due to the topography of the land it's impossible for humans to access...

[nealcorbett]

Considering that Papuans living in such remote locations have no idea what a thylacine is, and yet describe an animal that matches it perfectly, what do you think they are seeing if it's not a thylacine? They have no other frame of reference but to call it a dog. It's not like they are misidentifying some non-descript green bird for some other non-descript green bird.

[reubendaly]

if someone had a gun to their head and said it was there, the person would die of old age before they could be proved right or wrong.

[JosephMcEwan]

might be a wild idea but someone could go to one of these villages who can draw and ask someone to give a description of the striped dog and it might look like a Tasmanian tiger