posted 20-01-2004 07:15            

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Does anybody know where i can find the published photos of kevin camerons thylacine please?

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posted 24-01-2004 12:08            

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I too have been looking for these. Surely someone has scans of the original published images?

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posted 24-01-2004 22:08            

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Still no luck this end,but i have sent an email to the NEW SCIENTIST magazine which published them in 1985 i think,fingers crossed,seems a mystery to me that these pics are talked about but have mysteriously vanished??

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posted 07-02-2004 22:02            

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Got them at last!If anyones interested in looking at them,they are really quite convincing!

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posted 15-02-2004 17:53         

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Hi,

I would like to see the Kevin Cameron pictures. I've read alot about them being obvious fakes but haven't seen them to judge for myself. You could e-mail them to me at raill@xtra.co.nz. I could scan the picture out of the Thylacine out of my 1896 Handbook to Marsupiala and Monotremata by Richard Lydekker and send the image to you. It's not one I've seen anywhere else and I have 46 known images.

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posted 17-02-2004 21:36            

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hi sent the images for you!I have over 200 images so far and this was i think the last for me ,but unless you know otherwise take care nick xx

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posted 23-02-2004 13:54            

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Hey Guys,

I too would really appreciate having those photos emailed to me - have looked everywhere!!!

My email address is rdefonseka@claytonutz.com

Thanks in advance,

Ravi

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posted 29-02-2004 12:36         

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Wow! Thanks for the pictures Nick. I agree they look pretty convincing but the 'Thylacine' has no stripes on its rump and I don't think they were into digging. What do you reckon he used to fake the photos (if they are hoaxes)?

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posted 12-03-2004 00:14            

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The orcs in LOTR looked pretty convincing as well... *shrugs*

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posted 27-07-2004 15:52            

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I've also been looking everywhere for these pictures! If you know where I could find them on the net, please let me know.

Or you can e-mail me at: twohorses_creations@yahoo.ca

I've read a very interesting article about why it's probably a hoax. Here's the article:

"Following the rash of thylacine sightings in Western Australia, the state's Agricultural Protection Board sent Kevin Cameron, a tracker of aboriginal descent, to investigate. Soon Cameron reported that he himself sighted and identified a living thylacine in Western Australia. But this was not proof enough. Then in 1985 Cameron produced pictures that he claimed were taken of a living thylacine, along with casts of thylacine footprints. The pictures were presented to zoologist Athol M. Douglas at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. They showed an dog like animal burrowing at the base of the tree. The head was hidden from view, but it's striped back and stiff tail strongly implied that it was a thylacine. Suspicions began to arise though. Cameron would not say where he took the pictures, and he vacillated on giving permission to have the pictures reproduced for publication, eventually agreeing. Cameron accompanied Douglas to a photographic laboratory while he made enlargements. Douglas found,
"When I saw the negatives, I realized Cameron's account with regard to the photographs was inaccurate. The film had been cut, frames were missing, and the photos were taken from different angles - making it impossible for the series to have been taken in 20 or 30 seconds, as Cameron had stated. Furthermore, in one negative, there was the shadow of another person pointing what could be an over-under 12 gauge shotgun. Cameron had told me he had been alone. It would have been practically impossible for an animal as alert as a thylacine to remain stationary for so long while human activity was going on in its vicinity. In addition, it is significant that the animal's head does not appear in any of the photographs."
The story and pictures were released in the New Scientist magazine, and it's readers were soon criticizing the authenticity of the photographs. They pointed out that the animal seemed to stay dead still from photograph to photograph. And they realized by the differing lengths of the shadows that the pictures were taken over at least an hour. It would seem that the pictures were a hoax, and the specimen was a stuffed thylacine. But the first picture, the one that showed the shadow of a person holding a gun aimed at the thylacine, was omitted from the New Scientist story. Douglas feels that,
"The full frame of this negative is the one which shows the shadow of the man with a rigid gun-like object pointing in the direction of the thylacine at the base of the tree. This shadow was deliberately excluded in the photos published in New Scientist. If I am correct in this supposition, the thylacine was alive when the first photo was taken, but had been dead [and frozen in rigor mortis] for several hours by the time the second photograph was taken."
Douglas hoped that the carcass would surface, but that is doubtful since shooting a thylacine is punishable by a $5000 fine. Cameron was not helpful in shedding any further light on it. So the "Cameron" episode remains clouded in mystery. Either it was a hoax using a stuffed thylacine, or a living thylacine was shot, for reasons unknown, and pictures were taken of it. The fact that the head is not in any of the photographs may be because the animal was shot in the head. If they were using a stuffed thylacine, then why hide the head?"

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posted 22-09-2004 21:05         

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Hi Folks,

Im new here, but am convinced the tiger is still among the living. Could you send me a copy of the cameron pictures please?

LatKing@elvis.com

I havent seen these pictures, but after reading the reports on them am convinced that they are not fakes, but as most of you think, of an initially live, then dead tiger.

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posted 13-02-2005 21:56            

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I'm recently registered here, but likewise have literally spent years trying to track down these photos. If anyone could email me copies, I would be massively grateful.

richardinoz2001@hotmail.com

cheers

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posted 22-02-2005 12:39            

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Hello Thylacine people! I just arrived today and I'm glad to meet you. I've been fascinated by crypto-zoology all my life and the thylacine tops my list of things I'd love to find. I'd like to exchange photos with any and all and offer my huge collection of animal, bird and reptile photos, should you have interest. Is there no way to post photos here?

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posted 28-02-2005 16:03            

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There is a comprehensive report of Kevin Camerons hunt for a thylacine in a booklet published by a dairy farmer, Sid Slee, from Yoongarillup in Western Australia, 'The Haunt of the Marsupial Wolf'
Mr Slee has a small museum at his home of artifacts relating to thylacine, all of which have ben recovered from his property and nearby. There are some very good plaster casts of paw prints in his collection.

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posted 03-03-2005 12:36            

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Hi,

I would also love to have a look at these photos if that were possible.

My email is

dan.hartney@animatorsatlarge.com

Thanks

Dan

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