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PostPosted: 19-07-2012 16:12    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 20-07-2012 22:12    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here are the photos at this link as well as some fairly rarely produced images of them.

http://s1170.photobucket.com/albums/r536/revotisThartmannIII/?action=view&current=Tigers1977.jpg

The one with the female carrying young in the foreground is quite common but it shows the thickening at the base of the tail which is where healthy individuals stored up fat, note that none of the other specimens have this.
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PostPosted: 22-08-2012 22:23    Post subject: Reply with quote
Came across this;

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=95ntTQtgF4kC&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq=thylacine+maximum+size&source=bl&ots=FPTYA-FFJW&sig=vLd8PcVfB03KViKm2sp1wpb

Presumably from some sort of 'Fate' compilation. Anyone looking at it should scroll up one page to the beginning of the chapter.

I liked it because it obviously comes from the early Eighties, a time when there most probably still were thylacines out there. Much of it though is totally outdated or downright wrong.
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PostPosted: 28-10-2012 21:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
lordmongrove wrote:
Yes the mountain tribes in New Guinea call thylacines Dobsenga. They descripbe them as being like dogs with striped hindquaters and stiff tails. They say they come down from the mountains and kill pigs and other livestock. They are not hunted as they are 'taboo'. They have identified thylacine pictures as being dobsenga.


Stiff tails don't point to a thylacine so much as one of our many misconceptions about them. As Paddle points out looking at the known photos of the animal clearly shows their tails were as flexible as a dogs.

I realise that this isn't the most timely reply ever.
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PostPosted: 30-10-2012 02:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not 100% convinced of these pix but as for people not having heard of the thylacine, the CFZ have an intern who is an animal husbandry student. She is interested in cryptozoology, especialy magalania and homanids. She had never heard of the thylacine!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: 30-11-2012 05:42    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/species_info.php?id=545

From the EDGE website, intresting info on post 'extinction' sightings.
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PostPosted: 30-11-2012 09:09    Post subject: Reply with quote
Personally whenever I hear the last captive was female or that they could open their jaws to 180 degrees I click off.
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PostPosted: 12-12-2012 23:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
New, or at least new to me, group.

http://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/

Sadly for a group who claim to be

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a committed group of scientists, naturalists and specialists from diverse backgrounds.


Their description of the animal is identical to the wikipedia page. What does that say for their credibility?
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PostPosted: 06-01-2013 17:52    Post subject: Reply with quote
Getting back to the photo of the naturalistically placed mount from a few months back, here it is in colour;

http://s1170.photobucket.com/albums/r536/revotisThartmannIII/?action=view&current=thylacinepostcard.jpg

It seems to have been set up for a post card. It's a nice looking example for a taxidermy, the head seems well done, but I'd say it looks better in black and white, in colour you can see how discoloured and faded it is.
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PostPosted: 20-04-2013 18:59    Post subject: Reply with quote
Four thylacine pups which had been preserved in alcohol then lost have been discovered in a Prague museum. Don't know much else except that their discovery appears to be a result of work by the International Thylacine Database, as a paper on this subject was authored by its curator Stephen Sleightholme. Either way it's great news.
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Sad and sobering summary of O'Malley, Griffiths and Brown's thylacine investigations, even more disturbing for those who still hold out hope is that it was written in 1972.

http://eprints.utas.edu.au/14606/1/Thylacine_Griffith.pdf
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PostPosted: 08-10-2013 23:08    Post subject: Reply with quote
There was a short feature on the ABC news here recently - and a short summary of it is here on the net. Nothing much new though...

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Hunt continues for the Tasmanian Tiger

A scientist has raised the hopes of those who believe the Tasmanian tiger is still alive.

Tasmanian wildlife biologist Nick Mooney has written a chapter for a new book on thylacines, stating there is a slim chance they are still out there.

The thylacine had a bounty put on its head early last century and was declared extinct in the 1930s.

Mr Mooney says after decades studying and searching for the animal he cannot say it is definitely gone.

"I think there's enough opportunities in Tasmania for a very, very narrow chance that the animal's there," he said.

"It's probably gone, it just might be there."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-07/the-search-continues-for-the-tasmanian-tiger/5002406?section=tas
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