Tasmanian Tiger Caught on Camera? (New 2024)
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The Tasmanian tiger, also known as Thylacine, is an animal I looked for on Extinct or Alive. It is one of the most well-known extinct animals, and this man n...

The Tasmanian tiger, also known as Thylacine, is an animal I looked for on Extinct or Alive. It is one of the most well-known extinct animals, and this man named Zack may have caught it on camera. Could this be proof thylacine is still alive?

Forrest Galante is a world-renowned wildlife biologist and TV Host. His mission is to inspire and educate people about animals and adventure through the media, including hosting programs on Discovery Channel, on-camera expert interviews, and production of his own wildlife and natural history shows.

Some really compelling footage from April 2024. The photographer doesn't want to be identified so there's a chance it's a hoax, but the host has run it by a few photography/wildlife experts who seemed optimistic. The photos begin at 25 minutes in and don't strike me as AI generated.

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    I would love for this to be real but I'm almost certain the pictures are AI. The guy's story also has a lot of holes, notably flying directly back to the US - a flight that doesn't exist.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      To me they're shitty in the wrong way for them to be AI. Like the host thinks it strikes me as a physical object being there. It resembles bad photos I've taken of critters at similar times. The graininess seems more natural than it does a filter and the motion blur seems accurate. Its mouth is weird in one photo but this boy has a weird-ass marsupial mouth that opens like a North American opossum's: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aXHcaX9Nt64/maxresdefault.jpg . I'm still on the fence about it being real, but there's enough interesting documentation there to warrant a really close survey of the area.

      He does seem like an unreliable source. Some of the commenters think that's social anxiety and not wanting to become a celebrity for cryptid fanatics but I'd only trust a proper source to follow up on his claims. Staying anonymous like this doesn't indicate he's trying to grift off of it, so I don't know what his angle is unless it's just fucking with that host in particular for some reason.