Questions remain over Tantanoola tiger 130 years after it was shot dead

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Questions remain over Tantanoola tiger 130 years after it was shot dead – ABC News

A large, black cat sculpture in with trees and a fading sunset behind, and. Stories of big cats prowling the Australian bush are generations …

Jonathan Downes

Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.