The Australian Tasmanian Tiger
What can we say?
This enigmatic animal, we believe, is still here.
It has not gone and never will.
We just finished listening to Ned Terry's 'Tasmanian Tiger -Alive and Well', which features Ned Terry's (you don't say!) interviews with old timber workers and tiger hunters.
There is also an interview with one of the eyewitnesses to Wilf Batty's killing of the last (offical) thylacine killed.
A brief list of the major Thylacine searches between 1937-1980 is below:
1937 Summers Search in northwest Official
1937 Fleming Search in west coast ranges Official
1938 Fleming Expedition to wet coast Official
1945 Fleay Expedition to west coast Private
1957 Guiler Search in Derwent Valley Official
1958 Guiler Search in Rossarden area Official
1959 Guiler Investigation at Trowutta Official
1960 Guiler Investigation at Woolnorth Official
1961 Guiler Investigation at west coast Official
1963 Guiler Investigationon west coast Highway Official
1963 Guiler Expedition to west coast Official
1966 Guiler Second expedition to west coast Official
1966 Guiler Search at Whyte River Official
1968 Griffiths and Malley Expedition to all districts Private
1973 Sayles Search in northwest Private
1978 Tangey Search in northwest Private
1980 Smith Investigation and search Official
1980 Guiler Search and expedition Official
