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    I heard of a thylacine being spotted in 1981

    Jan 13, 2022 4 minutes

    WAS INTERESTED TO READ JAMES FAIR’S article on thylacines (November 2021), having written about the subject for (then ) in 1982. I’ve been to Tasmania twice. Wilf Batty, ‘last man to shoot a tiger’ in 1930, told me that it had been hanging around his farm for a week, with an eye on his poultry. I spoke to Michael Sharland, and noted zoologist David Fleay, who both searched for the fabled beast. Fleay actually caught one in a trap in 1946, but it escaped, leaving hairs behind. It was intriguing to visit places such as ‘Tiger Range’ in the Florentine Valley, where the last live thylacine was

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