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ALIEN BIG CATS & THE THYLACINEThe Thylacine
Aka: Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf
Description
The creature is half wolf and half tiger, with a head like a large dog's, hindquarters like a hyena's, and tiger stripes covering only the rear half of its body ending with a long, rigid tail. It also has a pouch like a kangaroo's, except that the pouch opens backwards.
Origin
Acarnivorous marsupial, the thylacine was exclusively native to Australia. The species seems to have been driven off the continent's mainland about 10,000 years ago, probably because of a losing battle against dingoes. The thylacine found refuge on the island of Tasmania, which was once connected to the continent by a land bridge, and became the only place on Earth where thylacines were found.
Sightings
In the 19th century, European settlers on Tasmania considered the thylacine as a destructive menace responsible for slaughtering sheep and other livestock. Both government and private agencies offered bounties to have them killed. Thylacines were exterminated at a rapid pace, with the animal's strange appearance making it an easy target. By the early 20th century, the thylacine was nearly wiped out and no longer a significant threat, and yet the killing continued. Bounties on the animal were officially ended in 1909, but the thylacine was still being hunted down as late as 1930. In 1933, the last known specimen, Benjamin, was captured and kept at the Hobart Zoo until he died 3 years later. Despite a vast number of sightings in wild areas across Tasmania, and discoveries of alleged thylacine tracks, no concrete evidence of the species' survival has yet been produced. In 1985, Kevin Cameron produced a series of alleged photographs of a living thylacine taken in Western Australia. These photos are generally judged to be of a fake or stuffed thylacine. The thylacine has also been recently spotted alive as far as Indonesia and England.
ALIEN BIG CATS
Aka: ABCs. The Beast of Bodmin Moor. The word "alien" here is meant to denote large felines that are "out of place," rather than "extraterrestrial"
Description
Leopard-like felines
Origin
63-year-old Leslie Maiden admitted that he released both a panther and a cougar into the wilderness about 26 years ago. Their owners, who could no longer keep them because of new laws, had given the cats to him. Maiden says he knows of two other animal collectors who also released their wildcats. Another man, 61-year-old Lewis Foley, says that he also knows of people in Sheffield who released wildcats into the moors as a result of the law. Even if the beasts were 100 years old by now, who said they could not have bred.
Place
Southwestern England around Cornwall
Sightings
In the early 1990s, reports began to circulate of alien big cats in southwestern England around Cornwall. Bodmin Moor was the elected place of most sightings (around 300 in 1996) and reports of inexplicably slain livestock. In 1995 an official study concluded that there was "no verifiable evidence" of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species. There were also several reports of ABC’s bodies but further examination revealed that the skulls had been imported as part of a leopard-skin rug.
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