i have a couple of sightings, none of which were actually me, but both have been in my presence. in yr 7 we went on a camp to gippsland, not sure where abouts, but it was "rainforests" camp. and a group of they guys swear to have seen a black panther moving off into the bushes, boys being boys the next day we all sharpened sticks and ran off into the bush looking for it, we figured anyone can copy and paste a photo, but if you drag a courpse out of the woods, noone can really say it didnt happen.... unfortunantly we didnt see it again, but we did see some pretty damn big footprints.
the other sighting was in my driveway:| wasnt me, was my mothers freind about 3 years ago. she claimed to have seen a tassie tiger running across our driveway. we live in eltham, and our property is surrounded buy trees.
as much as i love to believe these claims, i am still a bit sceptical about them, if it is so hard for people to get a picture of them, how are they managing to still reproduce, with enough numbers for several generations to have passed. howcome no-one has ever come across a courpse? do they just disintergrate on death or something? wild animals ofcourse could eat their flesh, but still, bones? i would LOVE for tassie tigers to still exist, they were such an amazing animal, but the lack of proof makes me a little skeptic, expecially when they are in populated areas such as warrendyte and eltham. black panthers i can believe, because there is such a large area, protected where they have been "seen" that it is believeable that there is a lack of evidence.
in conclusion, SEND SOME SCIENTISTS AND A CAMERA CREW OUT TO FIND THEM!! they manage to catch some of the rarest animals on camera, that no-one has seen for years, yet something there is common sighting on, an extinct animal, and no-one wants to rediscover it?
