He stated that it didnt look like some unusual hybrid but a species of carnivorous marsupial. I had slowed for a couple of hundred rabbits and was just starting up again in my old morris minor 1000 when I came at slow speed, 15mph in 1977 upon a second group and right in the middle was a young tasmanian tiger with a poined head, kangaroo like fur and a long thin tail it sat facing me mesmerized by the lights as were the rabbits. Australasian Post, 31 January. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extendedhalf way down the side of the body. The color of this animal was light in appearance & there were no stripes. Biologist and wildlife expert Nick Mooney has for years reviewed thylacine accounts and apparent footage and images. It had a sharp face, full ears, a hard erect rather round body, high in the shoulders, tall lean thin legs, long thin hard looking tail and the faintest glimpse of darker stripes around the body.". But why the hell would a baby thylacine, which I am absolutely confident that this animal is, be following a pademelon and be being followed by a pademelon?, he asks viewers. "Good description given, bounded into bush," the report states. Now, a newly released government document has revealed sightings have been reported as recently as two months ago. It was about 5ft from head to tail tip and up to 1 ft tall. Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itselfsomewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush-choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drivewithin view of Narrow Neck Plateau? Just outside the town was a small separate community called Brown Town by the locals. While it was also out during the day, it was mostly nocturnal and usually hunted at night, in pairs or alone. Join the conversation, you are commenting as. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub and situated at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. The animal appeared confused as it reached the middle of the highway, then dodging other traffic, it ran off under the roadside alcove and disappeared into bush, said Phil. She and a work mate looked at each other in total disbelief & both said together What in gods name was that? Fortean Times 25: 36. Sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. "It's not impossible but it gets less and less likely as time goes by.". , made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. "I met a bloke yesterday who said he had seen one in the Hunter Valley in NSW. I was driving south about 20 min into a 9 hr drive home to Melbourne when a 'thing' with the strangest walk/run burst from the scrub straight across the road, in front of me & a White landcruiser ute travelling the other way. The animal retreated into bush at the top of a gully.". [January 1979 sighting by married couple at night], "1979, Tyagarah; David saw a strange thylacine-like animal and it reminded him of the Tyagarah Lion observations that people had talked about over the years.". I have rung and reported this to my local veterinarian.". It was greyhound in size, covered in a dirty golden-brown short fur with no distinct stripes and a long tail that sloped down to the ground and back up again. A report from north of Waratah in January 2017 also describes a large cat-like animal "half trot, half run" across the road. "At 10.15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 1972, a friend and I were driving along thee Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath towards Katoomba in the NSW Blue Mountains. They might not be extinct after all | by Iselin Aspen | Creatures | Medium Write Sign up Sign In 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. A group of residents conducted an armed search of Myrtle Creek but found nothing. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. The most remarkable feature was the strange manner of running: although the animal was swinging regularly sideways, the hind part of the body made a kind of bobbing up and down movement; the impression was as if the animal was drunk, as I had never seen anything like it. It became obvious to us that a colony of from 6 to 8 of these elusive creatures existed in the gully. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particular. It was only about a metre or two in front of my car. or maybe they aint.". She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. This animal's head was dog-like, but its ears were shaped somewhat like a cat's. ", "We were sitting around a campfire for a while, then climbed into our sleeping bags about 10.30pm as the fire turned to embers. There are some very telltale signs here that this is everything but a pademelon.. Even though it has been extinct since 1936, the slender, striped marsupial maintains its place in Australian mythology . It tried to get through the armour rail on the highway, but couldnt, so it ran parallel with it for five yards, then it went through the rail at a higher opening. It was the size of a small dingo but with an elongated, slim body and the hind quarters was more prominent. I did report it at the time my husband saw it, to an on-line group or organisation. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. Some years later he saw it again at the same time and place & then his wife saw it in similar circumstances near their house. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. Mr Waters latest video includes a series of interviews with experts ruling out all kinds of animals they could be, one of them the pademelon. Daily Telegraph (Australia), 19 November, p. 3. It could be found across the entirety of Australia, and even into the south of New Guinea. It seemed to be stationary for a second or two as it was down the end of a long stretch of road so I managed a pretty good look. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. Was it a tiger? Christian Kopp (11 at the time) and his father saw a thylacine when collecting firewood. In November 2017, three investigators including Adrian Richardson, who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. A senior veterinarian and former RSPCA president is quoted in the video as saying there is a 70 to 80 per cent chance the animal is a thylacine. The last thylacine, the official name of the Tasmanian tiger that was the Australian island's apex predator, died in a zoo in Hobart in 1936. I ran outside to find my cat facing off with a dog-like creature 4 times its size. Despite all official . Both at the same time - exactly the same time - my brothers wife and I yelled "Tasmanian Tiger". By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild became extremely rare, and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilfred (Wilf) Batty shot and killed the last-known wild Tasmanian tiger. The animal, he said, was a good 6ft [1.83m] length from nose to tip of tail, and stood about 2ft off the ground on all fours. The next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. . His teenage son has since set up a large live animal trap in an attempt to capture it. The road is long and straight. The creature then ran down the side of a house into scrub. Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. At this moment they both saw a greyhound-like animal, long and skinny, run across the highway from the right-hand side [south] to the left [north]. They decided that it could only be a Tasmanian tiger and phoned the national parks service to report the sighting and where most annoyed when they were not believed and told that they could not possibly have seen such an animal because it is extinct. More like a retching possum and it was surprisingly loud. It had sandy coloured fur, a stubby muzzle and a long tail. Uru Publications. Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. It had mousy-brown body fur, and blackish body stripes that extended from the mid-back to the rump of the tail on a greyhound-like [ie thin] body. The elderly chaps sighting was about ten years ago in the same area, closer to dawn, about 6am.". ", "The Wollangambe Wilderness is a truly wild and remote region, situated north of the Grose Valley and north of the Bell-Bilpin Road. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. Copyright 2023 The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. Its prehistoric presence there first came to light in 1960 when archeologists discovered the lower jaw of a Tasmanian tiger. It was covered with a fine short brown fur except for the rump and tail, which was bare skinned with individual hairs scattered evenly across it. Advocate (Coffs Harbour, NSW), 9 March. Later, above the gully, during a detailed search for more evidence we came across tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, beside which were the smaller tracks of a young cub. They said that the depth of impression of the tracks suggested an animal of at least 75 lb weight. ", "25th February 2006, Saturday night, 11 pm, Palm Avenue in Mullumbimby; Kali saw a strange animal running across the road. "Rex claimed he saw a thylacine on Tuesday, February 22, 1972 at 10.15pm on the Great Western Highway, south of Blackheath. It was obvious to us that the creature was visiting the farm from the Kanimbla Valley [which lies directly north of Megalong Valley] by moving up the gully. He vividly recalled his dads words: You dont see this every day, son. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. ", "1999, Brunswick Heads; Jodi saw a striped animal cross the road between the fish co-op and the highway. Its body was sloped and the tail followed the slope. I believed that its hunched back was due to the fact that it was bent over sniffing the ground. It was very dark brown in colour, its back was distinctly hunched and it was stationary. "On the morning of Thursday 24th March 1983, I received a phone call from Mr John Turner of Shipley, located on the west side of Blackheath close to the Kanimbla Valley cliffs. Also, on some evenings we hear an unusual sound from the same general area (our farm borders xxxx Rd). Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp, but sightings made by people on the western side of the Blue Mountains included the finding, on Sunday 31st July 2022 in the soil of a Newnes fire-trail of a paw and heel by me. Another report given to Samantha came from a woman called Gail who worked at Durrumbul preschool and who had seen one crawl from beneath the preschool building and walk in a hopping way. This was apparently the meal of the animal I had just seen. Local naturalists were convinced from the general description, that the mystery carnivore was a Thylacine. . Far longer than any dogs tail & kinda looked like a kangaroo's tail. My friend who was with me describes it as follows, it looked like a kangaroo but it walked rather than hopped. Both were of a buff colour with distinctively rounded ears, hunched backs and remarkably long thin straight tails. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. It was neither dog, nor dingo, nor wolf, and certainly not a fox. . However, reports of thylacine sightings continue. It looked, then lopped off into the cliff side of the road. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. According to Mr Pereira the animals body fur was a light brown colour with dark stripes along its body and it had a long thin strait tail which it did not wag.". They noticed that another passing motorist also saw it. It smelled of musk, like a mild skunk or possum odour. Refresh the. A Tasmanian tiger enthusiast has claimed to have captured photographic evidence of the extinct animal and possible "proof" of breeding. The only thing I found that approximately resembled the creature were pictures of marsupial cats, with the obvious difference that the creature I sighted had dark stripes, not white spots. My brother was asleep in the back. (2017). Thylacine hunter Michael Moss maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. The Tasmanian tiger or 'thylacine' The thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. In the few seconds before the animal dashed off the road into the darkness of the catchment scrub, we were able to get a good look at it. Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit's own thylacine sighting: "3rd February 2007, Jones Road, Yelgun; just after dark, Gary Opit watched, for about 5 minutes, an unidentifiable carnivorous marsupial that measured approximately 1.75 m in length and about .75 m in height standing in the middle of Jones Road, Yelgun, adjacent the Billinudgel Nature Reserve. Then I noticed that the fore and hind legs were of the same size and that it did not have the usual colours of a swamp wallaby such as the ginger head fur, pale face stripe, black forepaws or black tail. The large head had a short snout and three premolars on both jaws. He said it looked exactly like the Tasmanian tigers he had seen pictures of in books except that it was a lot darker in colouring. ", "5th March 2006, Sunday, Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby; Elle and her family saw a strange animal in their garden close to the house and watched it as it ran down to the creek. One bounty hunter suggested it was a lost species of extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Trailing a Tiger. I hoped to find some specific characteristics from the footprints, but the sandy soil did not show them up; they were of the size of a medium-sized dog's imprint. It really caught my attention, and I found myself thinking about this animal for days.", "25thFebruary 2006, Saturday night, Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby; Richard sighted a thylacine-like animal on the road as he drove from Main Arm to Mullumbimby and he pulled off the road to look where the creature went. ", Source:https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, "Mr John Gilmore phoned me in August 1986, to relate an experience he had back in August 1979, while driving along Putty Road towards Bulga. That same year, a government plant biologist saw what they believed to be a Tasmanian tiger ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), or thylacine, from 30 meters (100 feet) away in a remote area. Rather excited about the whole thing I tried officially reporting it to the ranger, who showed absolutely no interest in the matter, as you might expect. My wife works at the Werribee zoo in Melbourne and it certainly wasnt like any of the cats they have there. We all believed we had seen a Tasmanian Tiger. (1982). She seemed extremely curious-cautious. (2017). However, now she felt reluctant to go for walks on the road. It then ran into the vegetation. Gary is a one of the great people in this area knowing wildlife and ummm and so I was talking to him about it. The sighting occurred on the NSW/Vic border, and so is listed twice in the respective state databases. We were baffled. However, around 2,000 years ago, it became confined to the small island state of Tasmania, which is why it became known as the Tassie Tiger. He said the animal, which he claimed could not be confused with a dog, was the size of a fox, with the head of a kangaroo and had a thick striped tail which tapered at the end. after a good few seonds it loped away. It walked, going from tree to tree, looking up into the trees. Australia Wildlife Conservancy says there are only 800 numbats left in the wild, and none have been seen in NSW for more than 100 years. It had a very long thin tail that drooped down then lifted up towards the end. ", "On Thursday afternoon 28th January 2015, on a Blackheath fire trail, above a gully Rex Gilroy found a number of Thylacine paw prints in a sandy patch. Most data was collected from old material. It was unconcerned by his approaching car and he was able to get a close look at it. This is Opit's summarisation of the report (in bold): "2003, Wilfred Street, Billinudgel; Sue, owner of the Billinudgel Post Office and the general store, looked into the main street of Billinudgel one morning at 5.30 am and was surprised to see a very unusual animal standing in the middle of the road. I think it was young about 12-13 inches from the ground to the top of its back.I didn't see any stripes and I don't think it had any but it was obviously a marsupial. The animal seen on video is about a metre in length and about 50cm tall, which would be. Source: Lubbock, Adelaide. Wendy Bithell recounted her possible thylacine encounter near Byron Bay on the documentary series Boogeymen, season 2, episode 11, entitled "The Tasmanian Tiger: The Tiger, Wolf, Kangaroo Hybrid". The monster's screams, according to one local resident, were like "a woeful cough that goes on and on, like a human being on their death bed". It was around the year 1948. It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. Passing the Titania Motel [Oberon] sign at the Oberon turnoff, he spotted an animal with black body stripes the size of a large dog, as it ran across the Jenolan road from left to right into bush. The last Tasmanian tiger is believed to have died in captivity in 1936, but sightings like the ones released from Tasmania have persisted for years, with most of the sightings coming from spotters . He described the creature as having black to faded stripes on its back-end and smaller than a dingo. At this point they all saw, barely 4 metres away, a striped-backed animal, standing beneath a street light. These sightings do not include the most recent sightings of the last five to ten years. Fascinating new documents have revealed a series of reported sightings of the marsupial, which was declared extinct more than 80 years ago. Share your thoughts in the comments below or vote in our poll above, To join the conversation, please After shaking our heads in disbelief, we were the ones who left, having finished our fishing and as we left we were able to see it walking around in the distance.", "Also around this time, Russel and Michael were walking within the Brunswick Valley Nature Reserve near the flying fox colony and both independently observed thylacine-like animals, one slinking past in front of them & one apparently following them. A Victoria farmer, Peter Groves, made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. I decided that this was not a wallaby but, from its distinctive body shape, a carnivorous marsupial. 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. The document includes detailed accounts of alleged close encounters with the mysterious predator across the northern and western regions of the state. ", "Not long after this experience I learnt that, between December 1971 and throughout January 1972, there had been a spate of sightings of an animal, or animals, answering to the description of the Thylacine, near Blackheath along the Great Western Highway in the vicinity of our sighting. A Sydney driver found a crowd around his vehicle and an unsettling note when he returned to his car after shopping. It had a long thin tail about the length of its body. In 2005, two German tourists to Tasmania, Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen claimed to have taken pictures of a live Tasmanian tiger. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Are we on the cusp of finally confirming that the thylacine a.k.a. We came to some wild, hilly country covered with scrub and rocks. The moon was in the clouds with a bit of moonlight shining down. In all cases I have clearly cited the source. Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? We sighted it again a couple of days later from a distance, and finally on the third occasion I was fortunate enough to get an excellent view of it. It was grey/brown with a lighter underside, especially under the chin. Just as we drove up the one way road a creature darted across the road. After 5 minutes I drove slowly towards it and at about 10 m in front of my car it suddenly pushed with its hind legs and with great power it ran off the road into the vegetation on all four legs. They weighed 33 to 66 lbs. The animal "turned and looked at the vehicle a couple of times" and "was in clear view for 12-15 seconds.". The Tasmanian tiger, otherwise known as the thylacine, is a carnivorous marsupial native to Tasmania. "26th January 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; at around 6 a.m. (Australia Day) Russel was driving from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads. It looked used to civilisation she said. While the unconfirmed sightings may fuel the hopes of some, the thylacine is still widely considered to be extinct. From Mount Gambier or Tantanoola to the Coorong, South Australia is also a good place to find them. I made all the observations with great care, hoping to discuss the animal with my colleagues, but they unfortunately had been collecting on the opposite side of the road, and had not seen it. It didnt taper, or wag. In November 2017, three investigators including. Being an expert on wildlife identification he was positive that it was a thylacine. Source:Paramanov, S. J. Source: Anonymous. ", "Late 2007, New Brighton; Don was driving a bus with 8 passengers between 2 and 3am when they all observed a large unusual thylacine-like carnivore eating a small animal on the road, probably a bandicoot struck by an earlier vehicle near the speed bump. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. I saw it for about 5 seconds as it crossed a remote dirt road. Im not sure if this is a characteristic of the Thylacine. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". ", "8th March 2008, Frazer drive, Tweed Heads; Joel contacted me at the ABC Radio station and stated I was travelling on Frazer drive in Tweed Heads, near the Tweed Heights turn off, at 11.40 p.m. and saw this creature lopping across the road with its tail straight out behind it. (Thylacinus cynocephalus)", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/. 2024 Mercedes-Benz EQG EV spied inside and out, 2023 Mazda BT-50 price and specs: More expensive, up-spec manuals axed, 2023 Hyundai Kona hybrid, petrol detailed ahead of mid-year Australian launch, Virgin Australia flight attendants top tips for nervous travellers and the seats they need to book. The wolf-like thylacine . I thought it looked a silver colour but it was hard to tell because it was raining.", "5thMarch 2006, Sunday, Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby; Elle and her family saw a strange animal in their garden close to the house and watched it as it ran down to the creek. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is one of Australia's most iconic species. He says the animal also has short feet like a Tasmanian tiger and shiny hocks, with evidence of striping on the tail. Its tail was darker and it had short hair just like a roo. Then they all descended back through the bananas to head for home. A couple were spotlighting near Torington, when they saw three thylacines. As tall as a medium-sized dog, it looked something like a whippet crossed with a kangaroo. However, there have been many unconfirmed encounters with Tasmanian tigers since Benjamins death in 1936. By Cameron Baud and Bryce Luff / VIC News. Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) revealed there have been eight reported sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the past three years. We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. At one particular spot we came across paw prints unlike any of the others and certainly not those of any dog. The database currently contains 11,166 species and subspecies (as of January 2023). His wife was the first of the family to observe the animal, 3 months before while taking their child to the bus stop down their one kilometre long driveway. Driving on deeper into the range we stopped to investigate an extensive tract of swampland, whose muddy shoreline contained paw prints of wombats, wallabies, bandicoots, possums and dingos. It was illuminated by the headlights of my car approximately 20 m in front of me. I really did not think about it too much until about 10 years later when I saw pictures of the strange animal I encountered that day. It continued to sniff the dirt road unconcerned by the presence of my vehicle. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service acknowledges and pays respect to Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners, and continuing custodians of this land and acknowledges Elders - past, present . Join 1.7 Million Subscribers Two days later their teenage son observed it and described it as being a cross between a kangaroo and a greyhound. After the second time I saw it, it was gone nowhere to be seen. The tigers, or thylacines, were. Busy mum, blogger and musician, trying to thrive in Scandinavia. Of particular interest was that the animal that he saw had no stripes on the body, though it did have pale bands along the tail. The animal moved in a way that I had never encountered before. At that time sheep were being killed and torn up in Hartley Valley by a Tasmanian Tiger-like beast, and that is what I believed ran in front of my car. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. Abel Tasman's party recorded seeing footprints of "wild beasts having claws like a tiger" in Tasmania in 1642. No sex identifiers noticed. March 2, 2021 - 2:00PM The highly anticipated photos of a 'living' Tasmania tiger family have been released and the man who captured them says he's "absolutely confident" at least one is a thylacine. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 11(3): 13-30. My daughter became frightened, as she said she thought it was a feral dog, and yet it did not look like any dog she had ever seen. But the tinny-sipping South Australian Tassie tiger hunter, who filmed the clip wandering around northern Tasmanian bushland, was quickly shutdown, with the museum there ruling the photos were likely of a pademelon. My other children and I heard the strange noise, but did not go out to investigate. Groves managed to pull out his mobile phone and snap a picture of the creature which he then uploaded to social media. I saw it dash up a 4ft embankment into scrub, a greyish-furred, black body-striped animal. the Tasmanian tiger is not extinct but still roams Australia, . ", "1999, Federal; Graham and Rosalind had a close view of a strange animal when driving between Whian Road and Bates Road near the old Dip when the headlights illuminated it. They both wouldnt have believed what they had seen unless the other had confirmed it. maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. It stopped and looked in my direction then it continued off into the bush. The film was recently colorized by Composite Films in Paris. On hearing from Mr Heath of some of the Thylacine sightings he had been told about, an academic at a Queensland . Dr. S. J. Paramanov saw a thylacine at 11am along theBourke-Wanaaring Road, while collecting insects close to the road (Paramanov, 1968). F***ing joke: Neighbours stunning note, Firefighters stunned by treetop discovery, proof the extinct animals were still alive, Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger. It had no spots, but it had stripes just like the long-gone Tasmanian tiger.. As we approached the left-hand turnoff to Evans Lookout, at the corner of the local council water catchment fence which encloses a vast area of dense scrubland, we saw in the glare of the car's headlights a strange animal. Exploring animal welfare, animal care, and the human-animal bond. "On 13th June 1982, Heather and I were phoned by Mr Sam Condon, a university mathematics student and farmer, who owned a farm on the eastern side of Mittagong on the Wollondilly River. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? We were within yards of it when it moved off the road into the scrub with a loping cat-like run. It "had black stripes on the back side of the body." Start the day smarter Notable deaths in 2023 The world's . He believes about 200 Tasmanian tigers exist in three separate groups on the island, 100 in the south-west, 70 in the north-west and 30 in the north-east. The last close sighting was about 6 months ago and it was right by our car on our forest drive. These few houses were situated on the east side of the Great Western Highway, with an oval across the road on the western side [the community no longer exists]. The creature had escaped into scrubland which extends eastward to a gully which drops down into the Grose Valley-where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported by campers and bushwalkers to the present day. It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. 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