Last Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacine, 1933

An extremely agitated thylacine. Notice that when rearing up on its hind legs, it often rests the entire heel on the ground in a "plantigrade" stance. This accounts for the long heel mark sometimes seen in its tracks. This doesn't usually occur in dogs, as they walk primarily on just their toes.

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[DJ118USMC]

Yeah if evolution is a slaughter of species by man. The loss of the Tassie Tiger was not because evolution made it extinct. It is dead because man saw it as a threat tho their lively hood.

[DemonPegasus]

the reason it is extinct is because it was hunted, the intorduction of dogs, loss of habitat and general human malice, if not for that, it would probably still be alive... also tigers and kangaroo's cannot breed with thylacines for a number of reasons... its people like you that should go extinct

[Andre Brown]

really? kangaroos and tigers?



[amm019]

Not to mention that disease might've also played a role in it

[PACR66]

There were already a few Tasmanian Tigers before the man started to hunt them.

[giehlemanns]

Watch "The Hunter" with Willem Dafoe. A really touching movie about the tasmanian tiger :-)

[nathali flores]

wait they kill her why D:

[nathali flores]

ok he is right dogs don't do that that's because its not in the dog family i know what family its in but i cant spell it XD also Benjamin was female

[dirtypms]

I hope they are just extant.

[Kristina Brotzman]

Poor Benjamin. I'm looking at my kitty now, and I could never taunt him like that. If they knew he was the last Tiger and that they would be extinct after him, they should've just let him go to live out the rest of his days in the wild. Instead they killed him (and they did - he died from neglect from being locked outside in his enclosure and being exposed to extreme weather conditions.)

RIP Benjamin and the rest of the Tazzy Tigers

[ROCKETMANN56]

Why do europeans always have to ruin things for the reat of us. If it wasnt for those retarded farmers the thylocine could still be alive :0