Comments on: 1950s Thylacine Encounters

By: mastiff

mastiff — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:05:07 +0000

There are reports of people shooting thylacines into the 1950′s.These reports were recorded in select documents as native cat shootings and most people put these reports down to large quolls or tasmanian devils, however it has been speculated that these reports may refer to thylacine shootings! I have read several good books on the subject and it seems quite logical that they survived up until the 1950′s

By: corrick

corrick — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:14:39 +0000

The geography is certainly correct for the 1954 Tasmanian sighting. Most experts consider Northwestern Tasmania as the last stronghold for the tiger on Tasmania.

By: Desertdweller

Desertdweller — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:34:18 +0000

It makes we wonder what will be the fate of the soon to be returned to production mammoths.

Will they be confined to zoos?

Bred to be slaughtered on hunting preserves?

Or turned loose to live free with free range bison?

I vote for the last option.

By: David-Australia

David-Australia — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:23:04 +0000

Several typos in the Danish link, and I can assure you that “New South Wales” (a state) is definitely NOT “some 300 km west of Melbourne” (capital of the state of Victoria)! The only thing NSW is immediately “west of” is the Pacific Ocean . . .

By: Hapa

Hapa — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:13:10 +0000

You know, if this species had survived up to the modern era, it would no doubt have been targeted for the exotic pet trade. Some Aussies kept them as pets. Recently Russians have been promoting a domesticated form of Fox that was bred there: if Thylacines could be rediscovered, and brought up in population to common levels, would they be the next target for domestication? And what would that look like?

Remember, all dogs descended from Wolves: that includes the pint-sized Chuhuahua to the 200 lbs Mastiff!