Has anyone seen a thylacine?

Pootle said:
@DaLilFishie I agree, pack pops in the head early on, a thylacine was like a marsupial wolf, so it fits, but it seems a bit boring and we are dealing with marsupials here, so we are somewhat licenced to differ I feel. :)

@Zoofan15 That's a really good suggestion, a flame seems a very imaginative choice with reasoning too!. A flame of Thylacines, cool.

I had a think and bearing in mind we are dealing with marsupials in thylacines, I know about 'mobs' of wallabies and kangaroos, I read about a 'passel' of opossums, maybe we could do something with these words?

But I do like flame myself :D
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well is believed that thylacines werent social animals,they probably made small family groups which would consists of the female and her joeys.But again there's not much information about thylacines' social life
 
I’m also liking a Fire of Thylacines for the reasons I listed before re. Flame of Thylacines. With your permission, @Pootle, I’d like to organise a vote.
 
DavidBrown said:
On a related question, where can one see a (mounted) thylacine now?

Is the one at the Natural History Museum in London the only exhibited specimen, or are there other places? Is the one in London still on exhibit?
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late reply but I recall seeing one at the JApanese museum of natural sciences at Ueno Park.
 
I've seen a taxidermied one at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. They only exist as taxidermies because they went extinct for almost 100 years.
 
Lets just imagine...

Someone next week got great film footage of a Thylacine romping about, what happens next...?

1. People say it is fake and dismiss and ridicule the person filming it.
2. Convince people it has been generated to look real.
3. Just ignore it. (sounds daft but would happen).
4. Insist on more proof. - like what, another video or a selfie with it?

Until you have 100% proof, people will not believe other people, that is people for you, generally following the popular view/crew.

On another creature, the 'Patterson Gimlin film' provides just about 100% evidence that another living creature which Patterson himself filmed exists. Despite 10000s of witness's it does not exist yet. Some of the reasons of these two 'creatures' don't or no longer exist are linked actually.
 
Pootle said:
Lets just imagine...

Someone next week got great film footage of a Thylacine romping about, what happens next...?

1. People say it is fake and dismiss and ridicule the person filming it.
2. Convince people it has been generated to look real.
3. Just ignore it. (sounds daft but would happen).
4. Insist on more proof. - like what, another video or a selfie with it?

Until you have 100% proof, people will not believe other people, that is people for you, generally following the popular view/crew.
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You can probably get a pretty good sense of what would happen from the claimed ivory billed woodpecker video from 2005. It generated huge scientific and public interest, and massive attempts to replicate the sighting, none of which brought convincing results. Now it is mostly dismissed.

What would happen with a modern thylacine video would depend on whether it was confirmed with verified follow-up sightings or not.
 
DavidBrown said:
You can probably get a pretty good sense of what would happen from the claimed ivory billed woodpecker video from 2005. It generated huge scientific and public interest, and massive attempts to replicate the sighting, none of which brought convincing results. Now it is mostly dismissed.

What would happen with a modern thylacine video would depend on whether it was confirmed with verified follow-up sightings or not.
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I see you are catching up on the most recent posts @DavidBrown :D

I saw the alert and thought, when did I post about a Thylacine,? I mean its been over 3 years since I last saw one myself. :p
 
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