How were we going to lure the thylacine into the immediate range of our cameras?

Being Australia’s greatest carnivore, we had to think along the lines of the diet documented within historical records of the mammal. The Thylacine tended to eat the offal of other animals, this being the heart, lungs, kidney, liver, intestines etc. We tried a number of Pet Food Suppliers and eventually outlined our proposal to ‘Champion Pet Foods’ in Croydon who have regularly supplied the quantities of bait necessary to assist in luring the animal. The baits proved to be a useful ploy with foxes and domestic dogs, being attracted and being filmed by our cameras. We’ve also tried left over dinner scraps, bags of left over pastry supplies and other food items and whilst they have proven to be successful in luring all of the other animals of the Australian bush i.e., birds, kangaroos, possums, wombats, echidnas, hog deer, foxes and cats they have never lured the thylacine. The live baits can never be used (rabbits, chickens, ducks etc.) and quite often we have moved roadkill animal carcasses to within range of our cameras and still have not obtained any thylacine presence.

All of this despite coming across fresh kangaroo roadkill carcasses that have been dragged some distance and which on some occasions are missing their heads. Which is a telltale sign of thylacines eating patterns.