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Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004
Uploaded by man_in_mudboots

Image credit: Benjamin A. Sheppard

Uploader comment: A photo of a thylacine

Image status: EXPLAINED The Tasmanian Tiger ( Thylacine ) was a real animal that was hunted to extinction in Australia in the 19th and early 20th century.

Recent comments on this image

#10 Posted by earthygirl04 on 7/25/2004

What the heck is this thing? It looks like it's half zebra and half rat!!!

#9 Posted by eternalfallout on 7/27/2004

Tazmanian Wolf?

#8 Posted by naotaman on 7/30/2004

no its a tazmanian tiger! This is the last on know which died in captivity!

#7 Posted by debunkster on 8/5/2004

It's said that some survivors have been spotted in the wild, but I am not optimistic about that. It's an awful sad story what happened to these animals.

#6 Posted by kingdom come on 8/8/2004

Yeah that's the famous Tazi tiger. It truly is sad that they were wiped out. They were hunted by farmers who complained that they were eating all of the sheep....but when you look at the picture there mouth and body proportions are not big enough to eat a sheep, so there's a bit of contraversy about that. However i reckon that there a terrific animal

#5 Posted by azraelschroeder on 9/15/2004

see, these are the kinds of things that seem exotic to us because we dont see them anymore. like dinosaurs. we would think them about as exotic as chipmunks if they still lived today. ;)

#4 Posted by grimlund on 9/19/2004

Remember the coelacanth. The scientists were convinced that it was extinct when it suddenly showd up in 1938. The last known living tazmanian tiger died in the 30:s in captivity just like "Naotaman" wrote here above. I´m convinced that the taz-tiger still is alive. Even to day people report that they have seen the animal.

#3 Posted by tamathea on 9/27/2004

If i was a Tassie Tiger I'd be hiding too. They were supposed to attack sheep, not eat them whole ;-) Not hard to rip a sheeps throat out.

#2 Posted by master_t on 10/5/2004

these things would still be around if we didnt kill them all..... were basterds

#1 Posted by da_mcvinster on 10/18/2004

Genocide is Ok when its us killing a "lesser" species....

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