Rare footage of the Tasmanian Tiger

[indohyus]

From 1935, this is recently discovered footage of the Thylacine in captivity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RPap1BWYns

[austrosaurus]

As a Tasmanian, it's incredibly sad to see such an iconic part of our island's fauna driven to such a lonely extinction. There are many anecdotal tales of tiger sightings in the southern rainforests, but even if a population still existed it would never be large enough for the species as a whole to recover.

[Shonisaurus]

It is a very sad story that of the thylacine. Whenever I see this beautiful recently disappeared mammal, I do not know why, but it causes me great pain, even though we did not coincide in time, I feel somewhat identified by that incredible extinct creature.

Hopefully the cryptozoological story in which it is said that the thylacine actually still exists is true.

[Faelrin]

I'm glad to see more video of this exists, but it is still incredibly tragic that this species is gone forever (unless we were lucky enough to clone it I guess), and of course that others still have gone extinct rather recently (such as the Chinese Giant Paddlefish, and possibly the Vaquita at this rate), and likely more to come in the future with how things are unfortunately progressing.

[Shonisaurus]

I suppose maybe in the future that extinct mammal and even recently extinct animal species can be cloned, but for that science must advance. In fact, in the Museum of Natural Sciences of Madrid they have a dissected thylacine if I remember correctly and there are in Australia tilacines preserved in formaldehyde (young of thylacine) perhaps that may be the solution.