Thanks for remembering this thread, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for!
Has anyone seen a thylacine?
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Thanks for remembering this thread, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for!
Jayden8763
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I watched a documentary, and it was just one that was done by a kid, but it was pretty good to be honest, and in it, there was one person who said they remember thylacines from when they were a kid, and almost the exact sound they made, and described it to be like a hyena, or at least because that's what their father called them according to the man
I watched a documentary, and it was just one that was done by a kid, but it was pretty good to be honest, and in it, there was one person who said they remember thylacines from when they were a kid, and almost the exact sound they made, and described it to be like a hyena, or at least because that's what their father called them according to the man
If its the one I saw, it was a pretty good effort for his age. The man was probably Will Cramp who recounted that as a boy he visited the zoo to help out on Sundays and helped feed the Thylacine. The problem with these sorts of recollections i.e.' the noise it made was like a Hyaena', had he ever heard a Hyaena at that time? There would have been none in Tasmania in the 1930's and he would probably have needed to go to Africa to hear one. Of course later on he might have heard them in films etc and made the comparison in retrospect- or was it more just an association with the nickname 'hyaena' for Thylacines perhaps? We can't know.
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Jayden8763
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apparently he called them that based on what the soldiers who went to africa described it as, or something to do with that, and because of that called them hyaenas. Also it was only a nickname that the guy gave them, not really anyone else.
Hyaena was a fairly common name for Thylacines in Tasmania.
Yes he did talk about them in that way but as Chlidonias has pointed out, it was actually one of the several other terms commonly given to Thylacines. I think it derived from early settlers who saw some resemblance in their appearance, in the same way 'tiger' and 'wolf' were widely used too.
Jayden8763
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I really thought that they were just called either tasmanian +/or tiger, wolf, or just thylacine. The more you know I guess.
