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Happydaysuall Grey Joined: 18 Jan 2013 Total posts: 6 Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 20-02-2013 12:30 Post subject: Are thylacines hiding in trees ? |
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I am quite new to F T and have only just discovered these wonderful creatures.
Does anyone think that there is any possibility that the tazzy tiger could swing from the trees using its tail.I understand that some people have said that they have rigid tails but I agree with old rovers post that they were indeed flexible.
Perhaps this is why there are no paw prints to be found and maybe people should start looking up into the trees! These creatures may also have developed some way to stop their young from falling out of their pouches whilst swinging through these trees?! If there's anyone who could find such photographic evidence I'm sure it will be old rover! |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 22-02-2013 16:52 Post subject: |
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OK, I'll bite.
Are you seriously suggesting that a terrestrially adapted animal has somehow become adapted to an arboreal life? There is flexible and then there is prehensile. Compare the tails of the Brushtail Possum, and Common Opossum to the Tasmanian Tigers. Compare the paws of these species and you will see that the paw of the thylacine is not adapted to grasping, unlike the other two species. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-02-2013 22:02 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Are you seriously suggesting that a terrestrially adapted animal has somehow become adapted to an arboreal life? |
No he isn't serious trust me. This is why people give me hammers. |
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| PaulTaylor Yeti Joined: 27 Jan 2013 Total posts: 79 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 22-02-2013 22:34 Post subject: |
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| oldrover wrote: | | Quote: | | Are you seriously suggesting that a terrestrially adapted animal has somehow become adapted to an arboreal life? |
No he isn't serious trust me. This is why people give me hammers. |
Hush! I'm diggin' the mental image of thylacines swinging themselves through the rainforest canopy by their tails. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-02-2013 22:47 Post subject: |
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Oh don't get me wrong I loved it too.
| Quote: | | Perhaps this is why there are no paw prints to be found and maybe people should start looking up into the trees! These creatures may also have developed some way to stop their young from falling out of their pouches whilst swinging through these trees?! |
These are my two favourite sentences. |
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| titch4 Yeti Joined: 17 Feb 2013 Total posts: 33 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-02-2013 00:55 Post subject: |
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| Now we know why we haven't found nessie yet. |
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| PaulTaylor Yeti Joined: 27 Jan 2013 Total posts: 79 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-02-2013 11:02 Post subject: |
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These are my favourite lines.
| Happydaysuall wrote: | | some people have said that they have rigid tails but I agree with old rovers post that they were indeed flexible. |
| Happydaysuall wrote: | | If there's anyone who could find such photographic evidence I'm sure it will be old rover! |
I can't wait to hear on the morning news that renegade zoologist Professor Old Rover has finally left for his expedition to find photographic proof of his unpopular theory of the thylacine's arboreal lifestyle. 
| titch4 wrote: | | Now we know why we haven't found nessie yet. |
Aye, I've watched over the Loch for thirty years now, and I've seen no sign of dear old Nessie! Just the salmon leaping from the water, the grebes paddling across the surface, and the plesiosaurs swinging through the surrounding trees. I'm beginning to think there's nothing there! |
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| Human_84 We wont hurt you human.
Great Old One Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Total posts: 1386 Location: Invisible, sitting next to you. Gender: Male |
| Posted: 23-02-2013 20:32 Post subject: |
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| titch4 wrote: | | Now we know why we haven't found nessie yet. |
 us cats don't have room for no Nessie! |
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| drbates Great Old One Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Total posts: 457 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-02-2013 20:55 Post subject: |
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| PaulTaylor wrote: |
Aye, I've watched over the Loch for thirty years now, and I've seen no sign of dear old Nessie! Just the salmon leaping from the water, the grebes paddling across the surface, and the plesiosaurs swinging through the surrounding trees. I'm beginning to think there's nothing there! |
Plesiosaurs all carrying photograph albums stuffed with Thunderbird pics  |
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