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our friends.This page offers a glimpse of the future. Whilst the Victorians Taxidermist killed birds and mammals directly for the production of dioramas as was then the fashion, we have either intentionally or by neglect caused massive disrutpion in the Earth's fragile ecosystem in the last 100 years. An interesting fact is that 82 million barrels of oil are consumed daily. This oil is finite, with no practical alternative in the pipeline. We are a Hydrocarbon based economy whether we like it or not. We are all in for significant change in the future. In ecological / geological terms, that changes is merely seconds away. For example, the grains of sand on a beach may exist in a phenomenal quantity, but if just an eggcup of sand is removed from the beach every day, in geological time the beach will disappear in an instant. Such is the power of time Lets hope we are prepared. Lets hope our children are prepared.
Fools Crow, Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux
"Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to
you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow
it from our Children."
"Mergus australis" was restricted to the Auckland Islands, New Zealand, by the time of its discovery in 1840, but subfossil remains of a Mergus species have also been found on South and Stewart Islands. It was largely a freshwater species, foraging in inland streams, estuaries and, occasionally, sheltered bays. Its decline was presumably caused by a combination of hunting and predation by introduced pigs, rats, cats and dogs—the species' incipient flightlessness made it especially vulnerable. At least 26 specimens were collected in total, the last in 1902; there have been no records since, despite intensive searches.
The Tazmanian Tiger
The Tasmanian Tiger died out on the Australian mainland and New Guinea due to the competition of the dingo that was brought there by the aborigines. The last remaining population on Tasmania declines after the arrival of the Europeans, and finally died out, due to extensive (bounty) hunting, habitat destruction, disease, and competition with domesticated dogs.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. Now Extinct.
The last confirmed report of a Thylacine in the wild was in 1930. The last captive animal was recorded as dying in Hobart Zoo in 1936. Occasional reports of sightings since that time have not been confirmed and several organized searches for the animal have failed to find conclusive evidence of the species' existence. The Thylacine became extinct on the Australian mainland thousands of years before European settlement of the continent, but it survived on the island state of Tasmania along with several other endemic species, including the Tasmanian Devil. Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributory factors may have been disease, the introduction of dogs, and human encroachment into its habitat. Despite its official classification as extinct, sightings are still reported.
Like the tigers and wolves of the Northern Hemisphere, from which it obtained two of its common names, the Thylacine was an apex predator. As a marsupial, it was not related to these placental mammals, but because of convergent evolution it displayed the same general form and adaptations. Its closest living relative is thought to be either the Tasmanian Devil or Numbat.
The Thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes (the other being the Water Opossum). The male Thylacine had a pouch that acted as a protective sheath, protecting the male's external reproductive organs while running through thick brush.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. This animal is housed at the Booth Museum, Brighton and upon closer examination is actually much larger than first envisioned.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. This animal is housed at the Booth Museum, Brighton and upon closer examination is actually much larger than first envisioned. Would hazzard a guess at it being the size of a Labrador Dog.
The indigenous peoples of Australia made first contact with the Thylacine. Numerous examples of Thylacine engravings and rock art have been found dating back to at least 1000 BC. Petroglyph images of the Thylacine can be found at the Dampier Rock Art Precinct on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia. By the time the first explorers arrived, the animal was already rare in Tasmania. Europeans may have encountered it as far back as 1642 when Abel Tasman first arrived in Tasmania. His shore party reported seeing the footprints of "wild beasts having claws like a Tyger".
Aboringinal rock art on the Australian mainland depicting the Thylacine.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. This animal is housed at the Booth Museum, Brighton and upon closer examination is actually much larger than first envisioned.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. This animal is housed at the Booth Museum, Brighton and upon closer examination is actually much larger than first envisioned.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. This animal is housed at the Booth Museum, Brighton and upon closer examination is actually much larger than first envisioned.
The first detailed scientific description was made by Tasmania's Deputy Surveyor-General, George Harris in 1808, five years after first settlement of the island. Harris originally placed the Thylacine in the genus Didelphis, which had been created by Linnaeus for the American opossums, describing it as Didelphis cynocephala, the "dog-headed opossum".
Recognition that the Australian marsupials were fundamentally different from the known mammal genera led to the establishment of the modern classification scheme, and in 1796 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire created the genus Dasyurus where he placed the Thylacine in 1810. To resolve the mixture of Greek and Latin nomenclature the species name was altered to cynocephalus. In 1824, it was separated out into its own genus, Thylacinus, by Temminck. The common name derives directly from the genus name, originally from the Greek (thılakos), meaning "pouch" or "sack".
Cabinet skins of Tazmanian Tigers. Pityful remnants of a now extinct marscupial.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. Now Extinct.
Tazmanian Tiger, which is actually a marscupial. Now Extinct.
Tazmanian Tiger hunting. Now Extinct.
Tazmanian pup, which is actually a marscupial. Now Extinct.
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