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Queensland Tiger |
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Reported from the Queensland rainforests of Australia, the Queensland Tiger is not to be confused with the wolflike Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacine, another cryptid. Queensland Tigers are medium-sized carnivorous marsupial striped "cats" known to the Aboriginies for many centuries and to Euro-Australians since the 1600's. In the 1940's and 1950's, a wave of sightings erupted to the south of North Queensland's tropical rainforests. Witnesses told of encounters with a striped tiger-like beast around Maryborough and Gympie, just to the north of the Sunshine Coast. Expeditions in pursuit of the Queensland Tiger have tried to catch one for decades with no success. The Queensland Tiger is a large, German sheperd-sized animal with stripes across its whole back, a catlike head, and a nasty habit of using its sharp front claws to rip the guts from animals that it attacks. It is said to do the same thing to kangaroos and other animals it wishes to eat. Bernard Heuvelmans relates the Queensland Tiger to the fossil marsupial "lion," Thylacoleo. - entry provided by Danny Lattman, Lattfam2@aol.com
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