Mystery tails

Freshwater Creek’s Harry Cook on the lookout for the Tasmanian tiger, generally accepted as extinct since the 1930s. PHOTO: REG RYAN

Pumas, panthers, Tasmanian tigers, Asian leopards – reports of ferocious wildlife across the region might be just feverish flights of fancy but, as NOEL MURPHY finds, accounts from terrified or bemused witnesses down the years suggest otherwise.

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