I just missed seeing this thylacine alive. It had been reduced to a skeleton by the time I arrived at Sydney's Australian Museum
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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the nam... [read more]
Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the nam... [read more] Blog: the hunting of the Snark...I mean thylacine
Date: November 30th 2007
The thylacine is known by many names. Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf...well, I guess that's about all really. Once upon a time it dealt its tigery vengeance amongst marsupials all over Australia. The introduction of the dingo by Indonesian traders about 4000 years ago doomed the thylacine on the mainland and by the time Europeans discovered the country it was restricted to Tasmania. Which is wher ... read more
Date: November 30th 2007
The thylacine is known by many names. Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf...well, I guess that's about all really. Once upon a time it dealt its tigery vengeance amongst marsupials all over Australia. The introduction of the dingo by Indonesian traders about 4000 years ago doomed the thylacine on the mainland and by the time Europeans discovered the country it was restricted to Tasmania. Which is wher ... read more
Comment on I just missed seeing this thylacine alive. It had been reduced to a skeleton by the time I arrived at Sydney's Australian Museum
I live in New Zealand. I started this blog when going on a 2006 trip through Malaysia and Thailand for three months to see the wildlife. The first 43 blog entries are for that trip, followed by ones from around NZ, Fiji, and Australia looking at animals. After another trip into southeast Asia for six months, mainly in Indonesia, I took a short sojourn into New Caledonia. Now I'm heading back into Indonesia for a couple of months. Anyone who is not interested in animals and who thinks nature is a waste of space shouldn't be reading this blog. Go back to your bars and your temples and your massa... full info
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