Illustration of a thylacine-like Queensland tiger with the classic thylacoleonid dentition, by William Rebsamen.Īccounts of the Queensland tiger are generally very consistent, and have been for a century. A similar cryptid, the warrigal, has been reported from the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, and some cryptozoologists also believe that the same animal could explain some sightings of alien big cats in Australia. Most controversially, some cryptozoologists have identified the Queensland tiger with the mainland thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus). On the other hand, several Australian naturalists have argued that it is a form of giant dasyurid marsupial, the family containing quolls and the Tasmanian devil. The most popular theory regarding this cryptid's identity is that it is or was a modern descendant of the Pleistocene marsupial lion ( Thylacoleo carnifex), or a smaller relative, and some cryptozoologists refer to the cryptid itself as Thylacoleo. This interest continued for the next two decades, but the cryptid's existence was never proven, and sightings have become less frequent since the late 20 th Century, to the extent that some cryptozoologists regard the Queensland tiger as extinct. At this time, it was sometimes described in Australian natural history books. When Bernard Heuvelmans covered it in On the Track of Unknown Animals (1955), he referred to the Queensland tiger as the unknown animal closest to official recognition.
The Queensland tiger is usually described as an arboreal, notoriously aggressive cat-like animal about the size of a medium dog, with a striped coat.įirst reported in 1871, the Queensland tiger is well-known due to the great number of specimens which were allegedly killed, but almost never retained, by settlers and explorers. The name punchum was applied to a similar animal on southern Queensland's Gold Coast. The Queensland tiger is a feliform cryptid reported from eastern Australia, mainly from the montane rainforests ("scrubs") of the Wet Tropics of Queensland ↗, where it or a similar animal was known as the yarri (Djirbalngan or Warrgamay: "quoll"). Marsupial cat, marsupial lion, native tiger, punchum, Queensland tiger-cat, yaddi, yarri The Ozenkadnook tiger photograph has been suggested to depict the Queensland tiger, though others have identified it as a thylacine.
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