In addition to a brief, wishful-thinking introductory clip of an alleged recent sighting, this video contains all known footage of Thylacinus cynocephalus, the largest predatory marsupial of modern times. The Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian wolf and the Tasmanian tiger though it was of course neither wolf nor tiger, has been extinct for 72 years. The last one died in Hobart, Tasmania’s zoo in 1936.
That was difficult to watch. And it made me cry. This species and passenger pigeons hold a dear place in my heart for the tangible human brutality they represent. What catastrophic losses… and all from ignorance and fear.
We haven’t changed much, have we?
weird