Thylacine Video.

By gail in Animals & Pets on Feb 20, 2007 at 9:18 pm

This is video from 1933 of the “last Tasmanian tiger,” the thylacine. Thylacines, now extinct, were carnivorous marsupials that inhabited Tasmania until they were wiped out by a human campaign of extermination that lasted through the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, although thylacines were never a threat to anyone. You can learn more about them at the Thylacine Museum.

I was reminded of the thylacines when I posted the article on the danger to Tasmanian devils. Thanks, dodgyd55.


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  1. sal
    Feb 20th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

    Creepy.. Like a ghost caught on film.

  2. gail
    Feb 20th, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    Yes. That’s exactly the feeling I had. Creepy and sad.

  3. Denita TwoDragons
    Feb 20th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    *sigh* They were extinct long before I was even born, but I still miss them…

    –TwoDragons

  4. gail
    Feb 20th, 2007 at 11:21 pm

    They look a lot like dogs too, and that always tugs at my heartstrings. I expect if they were a type of rare squirrel or something I wouldn’t get that melancholy feeling — like I might have lost a friend — along with the natural sense of regret at losing something unique.

  5. su.wei
    Feb 20th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

    *sigh* its adorable! we humans really are wretched!

  6. Dan
    Feb 20th, 2007 at 11:57 pm

    Fortunately, it takes just a few moments to clone a thylacine.

  7. Alex
    Feb 21st, 2007 at 12:49 am

    JESUS CHRIST IT’S A THYLACINE GET IN THE CAR!

  8. Beth
    Feb 21st, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    I did a huge research paper on these guys in college. Got to be an amatuer expert (is that possible?) Anywho, there are still sitings of thylacines in Australia and New Zealand. There is a chance the species is still around, just severely depleted. I live in hope, as I fell in love with the critters doing all that research.

    Viva les Thylacines!

  9. gail
    Feb 21st, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    If it’s true, Beth, it would be wonderful. After all, the ivory billed woodpeckers seemed to be gone for 90 years or so.

  10. draculawatcher
    Apr 3rd, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    In the original Nosferatu film, a thylacine is shown as a “werewolf”.


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