In the age of the Pleistocene, the water levels of the oceans were extremely low. New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania together formed a single land mass, known as Sahul-shelf. After the last Ice Age, 10,000 years, the sea level rose gradually, and Guinea been to the island. The land bridge to Australia, however, which had existed over 40,000 years, is the reason why you can sometimes still be found in New Guinea particular species that are as native to the Australian mainland.
Also Thylacinus cynocephalus, the thylacine was once represented in New Guinea. It means, however, that he should be extinct there by 8000 BC - for reasons that are still unknown to science.
We all know how it went then 2000 years ago, the tiger disappeared from the Australian mainland, 69 years ago allegedly by Tasmania, and the way is now eradicated. The fact that probably not entirely true, is relatively well known, but still is no clear evidence of the continued existence of the tiger appeared.
Do I have to find the last hidden wolf population in the bag however be confined to Tasmania?From the Australian mainland, more reports of sightings have been reported, as is the case of the small island off the south coast. And probably the most amazing are the rumors that said to have been observed recently in New Guinea even bags wolves!
In 1992 came the farmer and the Tasmanian thylacine researcher Ned Terry on the first descriptions of a mysterious animal that should live in the mountains of Irian Jaya in western New Guinea, one of the least explored areas on earth.
Terry received the call at that time already a retired man who was a missionary in Guinea have been operating. He then had a local native tribe pictures of different Australian marsupials shown, including the thylacine, which was at that time already extinct. The locals, however, recognized the Tigers and excitedly reported, this animal lived in the mountains of Irian Jaya.They called it the "Dobsenga" and described it as a brownish-colored creature that has the head and front legs of a normal dog, a slender body with distinct dark stripes and a long, stiff tail.
Two months later, the researchers made in person to find the Dobsenga whose description clearly pointed to a thylacine. With an airplane Terry and some companions were taken to a remote indigenous village in the unspoilt nature of Western New Guinea, where they were two guides available who claimed they knew where to find the creatures were staying. They had allegedly only three years before even seen one. The natives told Terry that the Dobsenga occasionally from the mountains down to the villages came to snap pigs, chickens and other pets. People were afraid of the robber and chased him.
Ned's search party bridged 4000 meters and took three days on foot behind. But they found nothing - no trace of a bag wolf, not even evidence that lived here some other large animal.
When he returned to the village of the natives, Terry was told that the Dobsenga his favorite prey - couscous, wallabies and possums - always followed. If these animals are not present, it was the sought Dasyuridae not.
Without tangible evidence in the hands of researchers came back from the New Guinea tropical forest. He firmly believes in the authenticity of the reports, however, because the descriptions of the natives to coincide well with the shape of the bag wolf to be dismissed as a hoax. It is noteworthy also that the tribe when Dobsenga not a mythological creature of myth and legend speaks, but from a real existing predator.
When the natives of New Guinea west is a relatively withdrawn living "primitive", the most exotic animals are not known. The thylacine - the common doctrine that disappeared 10,000 years ago from New Guinea - should they not really know as a living animal. But if it is not Thylacinus cynocephalus or another representative of the Thylaciniden act that kills as from time to time with the local livestock and fear and terror - what could it be for a creature to be? One answer is as difficult.
In my opinion, it's very easy to imagine that exist in some hidden, unexplored regions of New Guinea are still remnant populations of the bag wolf. These animals escape the past ten thousand years since their discovery by successful people. The areas are where most of the reports of sightings are, even in our modern times still one of the infamous "white spots" on the map - areas has in the partial set never a researcher his foot.
Tasmania Perhaps not the most profitable place to look for survivors bag wolves. Perhaps had the animals in a tropical jungle of New Guinea much better chances of surviving the perilous raid of man. The reports of the locals speak it. And even if Ned Terry 1992 to his three-day expedition in the mountains of Irian Jaya had no luck, I'm relatively confident: If making a better-equipped expedition set out for New Guinea, they would meet there at least on tracks that thesurvival of wolves bag support - if not even prove.