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The Thylacine always struck me particularly hard as an extinct species. Something about it being recent enough that we have some old video footage available is so haunting. Definitely up there with the recording of the Kauai O'o.
For a bit of perspective on how shockingly recent this extinction event was, the last Tasmanian tiger died in captivity when Queen Elizabeth was about 10 years old
6:31 It always amazes me whenever I see pictures like this where someone is so proud of a kill they just made. Especially whenever it's a very special animal and the last of it's kind. I guess they didnt know any better but it's crazy to see someone so satisfied with wiping an entire species out of existence. Its truly heartbreaking.
People are conditioned to see some animals as a disease rather than a living thing, it doesn't sit right with me when I hear people's disgust with various species like snakes or lizards or even mice and rats. Yeah, sometimes they need to be controlled a bit due to causing damage, but it's not fair how humans encroach on their territory then have the audacity to label them a "pest" that needs eradication.
@@beemo4 what a ridiculous analogy. Nobody had thylocenes in their walls, people moved to islands where thylocenes lived, then proceeded to kill off the native animals as they saw fit. If animals come into my dwelling and cause damage I'll remove them. I don't go out into the field where they live and kill them just because I can though.
Personally, I think we should definitely bring back recently extinct animals - animals whose demise, like the thylacine, dodo, and quagga, can conclusively be traced back to humans. I think these would raise the least amount of resistance and have the fewest problems in regard to feasibility and ecological upheaval. Certainly, a lot less than trying to bring back a mammoth, an animal that is not only huge, but whose habitat no longer exists or is in decline.
The problem is we don't know how the extinct animals lived. Even if we do clone them, where will they go? Just live a short, sad life in some laboratory or an attraction paraded in a cage? Everyone keeps bringing up Jurassic Park in these kinds of discussions but really the real victim here is the cloned animal brought into a world it no longer exists in.
The thylacine is nothing more than a pipe dream. We don't have a comparable species that could birth one let alone raise it. I'm afraid it's gone the way of the dinosaurs. The other two can still be done, along with quite a few others.
Thylacines used to be my favorite animal, I used to be so disappointed by the fact that literally the coolest animal that has ever existed were all killed off by humans, but now I’ve learned to appreciate the awesome modern day animals that we have now, like jaguars, and cassowaries, and even Tasmanian devils and quolls
I do not understand why an extinct animal cannot be your favourite. If people have a favourite dinosaur, you are able to love both extinct and extant animals.
I’m fascinated by the thylacine. I first learned about them at a museum in Australia and I’ve been hoping some would turn up for decades now. Sadly, I don’t think we’ll ever see them again, although I’d really like to be proven wrong about that.
@@KassMeierable no, there can be no "theory" about that. A "theory" is a scientific concept that has been rigorously tested by multiple professionals, all of whom have reached the same conclusion. There are no scientists or zoologists who have proven that any thylacines have ever been found in the Western Hemisphere. An uneducated person might have created a hypothesis about thylacines being seen outside of Australia, but since no scientists have ever seen any evidence for this, it can only remain an unproven hypothesis.
When that was a young guy in the mid 90s I remember discovering this animal and a animal encyclopedia my parents gave me. I was so fascinated by it because it was a creature that felt so close to dinosaurs. Wild and exotic and strange. a dog-like cat marsupial, that’s pretty freakin cool
What are the odds? My husband and I were talking about this animal yesterday! I was telling him how my grandfather had books from the 30s and on one page there was a picture of this animal (I can't spell it 😅) and it captivated me so much as a kid for looking so unique!
I'm going to be awkward and insist we ought to call it the (Tasmanian) Tiger-Wolf. Far more accurate, and a really cool name too. I suppose the time to have this argument is if/when they do 'bring it back' though. :)
@@normaleverydayman7004 Sadly, its incredibly unlikely seeing as how they were outcompeted by dingos on mainland Australia thousands of years ago, which is where all the "sightings" are from. However, as the video mentioned, we're super lucky to have enough specimens to eventually clone them! We could give them a comeback that way, at the very least on a small island.
Sadly, while it's entirely possible they continued to survive well past the date we think they went extinct, there is basically no chance any of them are still around. The bounties posted for evidence of one since the 1980s have more or less sealed it. People will do a *lot* for a million dollars, or 1.75 million for that matter. And the widespread deployment of camera traps across tasmania in the 21st century without any photos is confirmation. Similar measures have helped us rediscover elusive carnivores elsewhere.
I am visiting Tasmanian next year, so I will keep a look out for this species. If I did find one then I can assure you, I would never tell a soul. Best to leave them in peace in the Tassie wilderness.
I saw one of these near Adams , Illinois in 1972. I described it to my mother in law and she said she also saw it. It scared the crap out of me because I didn't know what it was . About 10 years ago I was watching a show on TV and they showed one. I was surprised because that was exactly what I saw back in 1972.
The story about thylacines makes me very sad. It makes me angry to see people posing with their dead corpse while their numbers dwindled down. I do hope one day we will see them again, but then again I fear that someone will go out their way to hunt them down again.
Australia and Tasmania are stretch for the thylacine to be alive in those areas of the world. Papua New Guinea is only 10% discovered land mass and the majority of it is mountains and rainforest and this was once connected to Australia and Tasmania during the last ice age. Why am I talking about this instead of Australia or Tasmania, because thylacine fossils were discovered on Papua New Guinea and there have been sightings by the locals who say that a wolf with stripes lives on the island alongside them and out of all the canines and the images of the singing dogs, they looked at all the pictures they pointed out only to one and that's the thylacine as it is very close to the one that they saw, as they call it a wolf with stripes. So if any chance of the thylacine to come back it would have to be Papua New Guinea since there's new species constantly being discovered there and this island has a lot of potential of rediscovering a potentially extinct species like the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger. However since most of this land mass can't be accessed by foot and it's going to be very hard to prove it.
@@youcankillgod what an interesting addition to a talk on papuan tasmanian tigers, something that really needed to be said, you just had to go and say that, didn't you?
A great book, devoted to the thylacine, called "The last Tasmanian tiger." Written by Robert Paddle, may still be available. It is by a very creditable source. (Was my science teacher, 40 years ago.)
I read that book years ago and it had a profound effect on me which has not faded with time. I felt shocked and angry and I cursed my ancestors who allowed this beautiful animal to disappear. I still do.
The wonderful thing about tiggers Is tiggers are wonderful things! Their tops are made out of rubber Their bottoms are made out of springs! They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
The Australians literally had a war against emus. And the Australians lost... they seriously sent out their army with machine guns to kill the birds and lost lol.. didn't realize they did eventually go extinct
@@oliverwells8011 There were like four (drunk) soldiers and one malfunctioning machine gun, don't play it up. Then we won through contracting killing. That "Emu war" was on the mainland, too.
I remember watching an animal planet documentary on the thylacine, and how people in Australia claim they still see one from time to time. It totally had me obsessed with them. The bigfoot of the marsupials!
nice story (thumbs up from me) its a sad story even thro its exstinct its still a iconic tasmania icon. it appears on coins and coat of arms of Tasmania. Its a sad story a warning to keep animals a lot more safely in the future. Becasue of the mouth cancer the Tasmania Devil could end up like the Tiger. It would be amazing to see if they could bring the Tigers back by cloning but they would need to work out the ethics on it.
Like Bigfoot, the majority of seekers and report seem to be fabricated misinformation. It is simple to find many common animals in sometime blurry photos represented as thyalcines, even as definitive proof. Just no useful backup evidence, somehow all the positive scats don't get reliable DNA tests, often attributed to the conspiracy the Government and science follow (and these entities can be obstructive/dismissive unreasonably, egos and predetermined attitudes exist).
For anyone interested, a wildlife biologist named Forrest Gallante believes they may still exist and has been looking for them. He has a show called Extinct or Alive and hosts a podcast called The Wild Times.
I will never not be furious about the death of Benjamin the Tasmanian Tiger. What kind of person would be so negligent as to let the last known living specimen freeze? It’s horrific
Thanks for the presentation and exquisite drawings. I love your enthusiasm and dedication and can't think of a better advocate for all but especially endangered species.
For the past few days ive been on a thylacine binge researching whatever I can on this. So sad they were hunted into extinction. I really really hope there are small pockets of them around or at the very least be able to clone them without any health issues
I'm privileged to have had both Echidnas and Platypus wander onto my property, but I've only seen a Tassie Devil in a wildlife park. The Tasmanian Tiger is extinct IMO. The Thylacine at the end of this video has been seen by just about every primary school student in southern Tasmania. $0.02
At 4:03 is my Great, Great, Grandfather (On the right with the strung up Tassie Tiger). I have the original signed copy in storage. Sad to see the Tigers gone. I hope they make a return.
Read an article in the newspaper a few days ago that the same company that is trying to clone the Woolly Mammoth is also now trying to clone the Tasmanian Tiger as well. And they think they'll be able to clone a Thylacine much sooner too!
My deceased step-uncle saw one once on the west coast of Tasmania around the 1970s or 80s, where the other claimed sightings have occurred too. He was driving one the dark with a mate in the passenger seat, I can't remember if he said it was early morning or night - and a Thylacine crossed the road in front of them. He just turned to his friend and said "nobody would believe us." The other known sighting in the area was in the papers around the same time period, when a mad was travelling the west coast delivering newspapers - another old woman had an interview here once too and lived right in the whoop whoops and could hear their yips sometimes, but wouldn't reveal her area to protect them. so, who knows?
These animals were amazing. Absolutely magnificent. I hope they're still around somewhere, somehow. It's really a shame what we humans have done to so many unique irreplaceable creatures on this Planet. It's heartbreakingly frustrating, how much damage we've done. Particularly Europeans during the Colonial period.
You're been misinformed. Europeans weren't responsible for their extinction. They were already on their way out when Europeans got there. These fake news videos really irk me with their "white man bad!" Narratives
I’ve recently seen a video that mentioned a possible Thylacine presence New Guinea. Not saying it’s legit just that the issue has surfaced recently in New Guinea. I have a friend who’s parents were missionaries in the Baliem Valley in New Guinea for over 40 years. The two things that come to mind when I think of the interior of New Guinea are remote and inaccessible.
@Komodo dragon gr I do t think that’s true. Tasmanian tigers were found on the Australian continent until relatively recent times. In fact some pretty convincing photos of tigers in the continental bush have surfaced recently.
@@drewlovely2668 Yep. That’s what reminded me of that account. I sure hope they make a comeback somewhere - whether by finding wild ones or cloning from available DNA.
@@greghelton4668 their information is taken straight from Wikipedia. Whether the thylocine is absolutely literally extinct in any area or not, they are currently classified as extinct across the board. Like how the Koala was recently (after 2019 and 2020 wildfire seasons) classified as extinct, because they were believed to have been knocked down to population levels that were unsustainable. But shortly after, it was found the wildfires hadn't destroyed as much of their habitat as estimated, and they were returned to 'not extinct' status.
It’s really sad seeing and understanding how great of an affect colonialism had on our planet. It was not only the Indigenous peoples who were severely affected but our ecosystem as well. Love the context one of my favorite UA-cam Chanel ❤️
that coyote looking thing is still out there..my Aussie uncle said that even wen they were abundant they were rarely seen and they were always secretive
Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a large dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.
Given that Thylacines were presumably social animals that had to learn from their parents, and that they have no close living relatives to gestate the clone in, I dont see how bringing them back via cloning would be at all possible
Their nearest relative is the numbat, an insectivore that lives in semi arid areas. But numbats are too small. However scientists have said that a tiger embryo could be made by replacing the DNA in a Devil embryo and implanting the embryo into a Devil, with Devil milk being close enough to feed a new born Tiger.
Unlike dogs or dingoes, all five digits on the front paws of a thylacine touch the ground. So, if you’re on a lonely beach or track and you see the tracks of a five-toed dog, take a photo!
Frank Darby, who claimed to have been a keeper at Hobart Zoo, suggested Benjamin as having been the animal's pet name in a newspaper article of May 1968. No documentation exists to suggest that it ever had a pet name, and Alison Reid (de facto curator at the zoo) and Michael Sharland (publicist for the zoo) denied that Frank Darby had ever worked at the zoo or that the name Benjamin was ever used for the animal. Darby also appears to be the source for the claim that the last thylacine was a male. Robert Paddle was unable to uncover any records of any Frank Darby having been employed by Beaumaris/Hobart Zoo during the time that Reid or her father was in charge and noted several inconsistencies in the story Darby told during his interview in 1968.
3:25 "They reportedly loved eating chickens" This photo was staged, with a dead, stuffed thylacine being posed with a dead chicken. It was widely publicized and contributed to their extinction.
Man, the Tasmanian Tiger looks so amazing. It’s a shame that it’s extinct, unless there is a likely chance they could somehow still be alive, living in hiding. Heck, if the Tasmanian Tiger can be brought from extinction, that would be awesome sauce.
I had no idea that the last one died from essentially being neglected in a zoo. That's really sad. The thylacine's story always hit hard for me. There's footage of them but they are just gone due to humans.
As tragic as the Thylacine extinction was on Tasmania, it's nothing compared to how tragic the extinction of the Aboriginal Tasmanians was. Many people don't even know there were native Tasmanians. And they only lasted about 20 years after first European contact.
@@miguelpedraentomology6080 Of course this video is about an animal, but lord forbid you actually learn something you probably didn't know. And yes: The original, full blooded, dark skinned people of Tasmania...are indeed extinct. And have been since the late 1800's. There are hundreds of ethnic groups throughout the world that have gone extinct recently. And many of those extinctions have happened within the last 500 years. And those are only the ones we know about, and were documented.
@@Ispeakthetruthify SPECIES! all currently living humans are the SAME SPECIES! There needs to a distinction made between species extinctions and population demises. A term that used to be used when I did my Bio degree decades ago, but I don't hear much today is: extirpation Here: Extinction: a species no longer exists anywhere Extirpation: local extinction, at least one other population of the species still persists in other areas So though the unique population of Tasman aboriginals and their culture is gone, the HUMAN species is very much still widely extant. Have we lost something because of the disappearance of this group of people? ABSOLUTELY! The human epic is about ALL peoples and ethnicities and cultures. We have lost so much of that. But biologically speaking, we are doing VERY WELL indeed. TOO well!
@@rickkwitkoski1976 OMG.... where do we begin? While you're trying to sound smart, condescending, and clever....you obviously can't comprehend what I wrote, or you didn't read both of my my posts: Of course we humans as a SPECIES, are not extinct. Nobody said we were, and we're obviouosly NOT extinct. I can't believe I have to write this(sigh). But the native Tasmanians, the Palawa, the ethnic group of people that the Europeans encountered when they first reached Tasmania...the ethnic group/race of people that had been living there for THOUSANDS of years...are indeed extinct. That group of people no longer exists on the planet. That is the definition of EXTINCTION. In no way, shape or form....does that indicate the the entire human race is extinct. But this group of people are. And maybe you should go back to school, because you'd find out that many ethnic groups/races/cultures of people around the world, have indeed gone extinct. It's been happening since our beginnings on this planet, and it has definitely eccelerated within the last 500 or so years.
I don’t understand how people believe the Thylacine is still alive. Right or wrong who knows; I’m just saying that ‘I’ am confused. The information I have found states that: 1. While Thylacines were at one point on the Australian Mainland that they died out there due to competition from Dingoes long before the European Settlers arrived. 2. That the European Settlers only encountered them on the island of Tasmania which was their last stronghold. 3. And that the settlers then caused the Thyacines extinction on the island of Tasmania because they believed that the creatures were a threat to their livestock. 4. But now, most of the recent sightings of Thylacines are on the Australian Mainland? When they supposedly went extinct in Tasmania? So I don’t understand how that works. If Thyacines were already extinct on the Mainland, only surviving on Tasmania and then were wiped out on Tasmania; how did they get back to the Mainland? Where they had apparently been extinct for a long time already? And where the competitor that seemingly caused their original extinction still widely exists? It confuses me. What other information have people heard?
Congratulations on the tragic tale and video on the Legendary and mysterious Thylacine aka the Tasmanian Tiger/Wolf my friend! Perhaps one day it will reveal itself but not in Australia or Tasmania but the world will reveal it right before in our eyes.
She found it! And again, thanks for making these videos! Learning about animals with you guys (weather they be from the past or present) brings me so much joy! I don’t know if these guys are still out there but I hope so! Extinction is such a tragedy
Yay Danielle looks so amazing! She’s almost the same as when she first started out! I was always worried about her health but she is clearly taking care of herself again! Can’t believe how far this channel has come. I remember when I first found this channel and fell in love with Danielle and her art. Then the dark periods where they didn’t post for a year then Danielle leaving for a while. So happy that they’ve come back stronger than ever WITH DANIELL DUBOIS! Woo!
The scientists who are trying to clone Mammoths should be stopped asap. Its a horrible thing to do to a social creature and such a smart animal. Sometimes we just have to tell scientists no, its not okay to do that. Mammoths died out for a reason, and trying to bring it back is just awful. If they continue to try to do it in another country, they may need to just be dealt with. Bringing back species like that is not a great thing when you have to spend so much money to do so when that could be used on species that are alive today that need it way more.
Ironically literally 1 DAY AGO, the group trying to bring back the mammoth, (which I don’t really think we should do lol, but what do I know.), announced they were attempting to genetically make the closest thing to a thylacine.
The possibility that thylacines retreated into the jungles and have either not been seen, or been confused for dingoes when they were spotted isn't the most unlikely thing I've heard... Bonobos are an example of a species remarkably similar to humans that we didn't even know still existed until a few decades ago. An animal as adept at hiding and as intelligent as a wolf or a coyote could definitely avoid human contact in some of the most remote areas of Tasmania or Australia, and to be honest from afar it'd be hard to tell a pack apart from wild dogs or dingoes... I honestly don't think it'd even be that hard for them, have you seen the population density of Australia? 90% of that continent is just desert or rainforest.
Interesting that you don't blame aborigines for introducing dingos to the Australian mainland from runaways of their domestic dogs. Also aborigines with prey hunting, directly competed with thylacines. Their yearly fires destroyed habitat. They also outright hunted thylacines too. Over the millennia the thylacines were slowly driven to extinction on the mainland.
Poor Thylacines!! What made them so adorable was their extra long snouts and little teeth which made them look toothless. . At least, that's what I saw on Benjamin, the last survivor that was not cared for properly and died of hypothermia. I'm sure he got tired of pacing that hard cement cage he was forced to live his lonely life in, though. RIP, adorable Benjamin. 😢
Dingos and Aboriginal tribes drove them to extinction on the mainland, same story on Tasmania except for Dingos, and then the Europeans showed up in the last 250 years and it's all their fault? Why are Natives so infallible?
Totally right, the three mainland apex predators (Thylacine, Thylacaleo & Tas Devil) all extinct on the mainland during the reign of the indigenous culture. We have all been gaslit on the benevolence of the Aust Aboriginal culture & its effect on the ecology.
They are treated as so, despite killing off all the mega fauna and burning down most of the bush on the mainland (turning the majority of central Australia into desert. Down here they were wiped out almost entirely, the remnants being bred out of existence. Breeding them out was the plan for the mainland, too, but that fell through. The remnants have been treated somewhat unfairly for a fair while, but many still have rather poor living conditions as a result of Chinese ownership of water sources.
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Please make a video about quetzalcoatlus.
Can you do paleoloxadon the biggest elephant
We need a Gorgonopsid video
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The Thylacine always struck me particularly hard as an extinct species. Something about it being recent enough that we have some old video footage available is so haunting. Definitely up there with the recording of the Kauai O'o.
sadly we may never know what the tasmanian tiger sounded like :(
And it being our fault. I agree. Its haunting.
Why'd you have to bring up the kauai o'o, now I'm sad thinking about it
Horse breed associations are looking into cloning things like that. Idk if they are anymore but a few were
You saw the Kratt's creatures episode didn't you?
For a bit of perspective on how shockingly recent this extinction event was, the last Tasmanian tiger died in captivity when Queen Elizabeth was about 10 years old
And there could have been a couple still living in the wild for a little longer.
Oh wow! Thanks for this bit of info!
I mean she's old as hell. 🤣🤣
That's more of a testament how ancient the queen is.
@@drfrizzy and they have been seen recently on the mainland by many people. Not far from where l live and have lived!
6:31 It always amazes me whenever I see pictures like this where someone is so proud of a kill they just made. Especially whenever it's a very special animal and the last of it's kind. I guess they didnt know any better but it's crazy to see someone so satisfied with wiping an entire species out of existence. Its truly heartbreaking.
I do think the man was proud because he thought he was helping everyone else by getting rid of the main predator to their chickens
@@ElPolloLoco7689 yeah, that's why I said they didnt know any better. Still very sad regardless.
People are conditioned to see some animals as a disease rather than a living thing, it doesn't sit right with me when I hear people's disgust with various species like snakes or lizards or even mice and rats. Yeah, sometimes they need to be controlled a bit due to causing damage, but it's not fair how humans encroach on their territory then have the audacity to label them a "pest" that needs eradication.
@@Chudchanning i agree they are all living animals, but i doubt you would like having rats in your house
@@beemo4 what a ridiculous analogy. Nobody had thylocenes in their walls, people moved to islands where thylocenes lived, then proceeded to kill off the native animals as they saw fit. If animals come into my dwelling and cause damage I'll remove them. I don't go out into the field where they live and kill them just because I can though.
Personally, I think we should definitely bring back recently extinct animals - animals whose demise, like the thylacine, dodo, and quagga, can conclusively be traced back to humans. I think these would raise the least amount of resistance and have the fewest problems in regard to feasibility and ecological upheaval. Certainly, a lot less than trying to bring back a mammoth, an animal that is not only huge, but whose habitat no longer exists or is in decline.
That should be done decades or a century down the line when there's better tech, instead of now and creating weird hybrids or defective individuals.
"Sometimes dead is better" ~Jud
Yeah! Let’s bring back extinct animals onto an increasingly inhabitable planet!
The problem is we don't know how the extinct animals lived. Even if we do clone them, where will they go? Just live a short, sad life in some laboratory or an attraction paraded in a cage? Everyone keeps bringing up Jurassic Park in these kinds of discussions but really the real victim here is the cloned animal brought into a world it no longer exists in.
The thylacine is nothing more than a pipe dream. We don't have a comparable species that could birth one let alone raise it. I'm afraid it's gone the way of the dinosaurs. The other two can still be done, along with quite a few others.
Thylacines used to be my favorite animal, I used to be so disappointed by the fact that literally the coolest animal that has ever existed were all killed off by humans, but now I’ve learned to appreciate the awesome modern day animals that we have now, like jaguars, and cassowaries, and even Tasmanian devils and quolls
No I still want my fantasy Pet Inostrancevia.
I do not understand why an extinct animal cannot be your favourite. If people have a favourite dinosaur, you are able to love both extinct and extant animals.
Don’t forget Okapi!
why is it always the weirdest animals that go extinct by human hands? oh well, at least we still have the platypus and the echidna
Enjoy them while they still around. We have the tendency to mourn better than to love.
I’m fascinated by the thylacine. I first learned about them at a museum in Australia and I’ve been hoping some would turn up for decades now. Sadly, I don’t think we’ll ever see them again, although I’d really like to be proven wrong about that.
I’m pretty sure there was one found in like 2018 or 2019.
@@drfrizzy if one was found, the scientific community was never told about it. All the experts on it are still quite certain it’s extinct.
Just came across a theory that they are on the American continent.
@@KassMeierable no, there can be no "theory" about that. A "theory" is a scientific concept that has been rigorously tested by multiple professionals, all of whom have reached the same conclusion. There are no scientists or zoologists who have proven that any thylacines have ever been found in the Western Hemisphere.
An uneducated person might have created a hypothesis about thylacines being seen outside of Australia, but since no scientists have ever seen any evidence for this, it can only remain an unproven hypothesis.
@@KassMeierable they've been seen all over Australia recently! Look up Thylacine awareness group.
When that was a young guy in the mid 90s I remember discovering this animal and a animal encyclopedia my parents gave me. I was so fascinated by it because it was a creature that felt so close to dinosaurs. Wild and exotic and strange. a dog-like cat marsupial, that’s pretty freakin cool
Posted a Harpy Eagle video last week, my favorite living animal, and now a Thylacine video?, my favorite animal of all time? Wow.
What are the odds? My husband and I were talking about this animal yesterday! I was telling him how my grandfather had books from the 30s and on one page there was a picture of this animal (I can't spell it 😅) and it captivated me so much as a kid for looking so unique!
Thylacine, try to write things you find difficult with time you will learn.
@@youcankillgod Ah yes, because I’m gonna remember and have time to look up something I don’t know the name of.
i just call it the tasmanian tiger
@@cosmicbars3518 no need to be so negative they were just giving advice
I'm going to be awkward and insist we ought to call it the (Tasmanian) Tiger-Wolf. Far more accurate, and a really cool name too. I suppose the time to have this argument is if/when they do 'bring it back' though. :)
I hope they do still survive in the wild, keeping well away from humans. They were exquisite…thank you.🖤🇨🇦
I HOPE the same thing, I know its, a hope not an actuality, but hope I'm wrong
Let's pray and hope they still around and would make epic comback
@@normaleverydayman7004 Sadly, its incredibly unlikely seeing as how they were outcompeted by dingos on mainland Australia thousands of years ago, which is where all the "sightings" are from. However, as the video mentioned, we're super lucky to have enough specimens to eventually clone them! We could give them a comeback that way, at the very least on a small island.
Forrest Galante believes Papua New Guinea could potentially have some of the last in the world. Look up wild times podcast on here.
Sadly, while it's entirely possible they continued to survive well past the date we think they went extinct, there is basically no chance any of them are still around. The bounties posted for evidence of one since the 1980s have more or less sealed it. People will do a *lot* for a million dollars, or 1.75 million for that matter. And the widespread deployment of camera traps across tasmania in the 21st century without any photos is confirmation. Similar measures have helped us rediscover elusive carnivores elsewhere.
I am visiting Tasmanian next year, so I will keep a look out for this species. If I did find one then I can assure you, I would never tell a soul. Best to leave them in peace in the Tassie wilderness.
Don't worry, a couple of Tasmanians are way ahead of you. Check out Levi Triffitt.
Everybody: So, are you extinct or still alive?
Thylacine: Yes
Schrödingers Thylacine 😁
I saw one of these near Adams , Illinois in 1972. I described it to my mother in law and she said she also saw it. It scared the crap out of me because I didn't know what it was . About 10 years ago I was watching a show on TV and they showed one. I was surprised because that was exactly what I saw back in 1972.
@@larrysisk28 it doesn’t / didn’t live in America 💀
Schrodinger's Thylachine.
Definitely extinct
The story about thylacines makes me very sad. It makes me angry to see people posing with their dead corpse while their numbers dwindled down. I do hope one day we will see them again, but then again I fear that someone will go out their way to hunt them down again.
You can blame COMMERCIALLY MOTIVATED hunting, but the basis was the opposite of hunting per se - namely farming.
Australia and Tasmania are stretch for the thylacine to be alive in those areas of the world. Papua New Guinea is only 10% discovered land mass and the majority of it is mountains and rainforest and this was once connected to Australia and Tasmania during the last ice age. Why am I talking about this instead of Australia or Tasmania, because thylacine fossils were discovered on Papua New Guinea and there have been sightings by the locals who say that a wolf with stripes lives on the island alongside them and out of all the canines and the images of the singing dogs, they looked at all the pictures they pointed out only to one and that's the thylacine as it is very close to the one that they saw, as they call it a wolf with stripes. So if any chance of the thylacine to come back it would have to be Papua New Guinea since there's new species constantly being discovered there and this island has a lot of potential of rediscovering a potentially extinct species like the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger. However since most of this land mass can't be accessed by foot and it's going to be very hard to prove it.
unless we get a live specimen, it can never be proven
That would be really cool though!
Not just by that papua new Guinea is one of the most difficult to acess because of the widespread rape culture and canibalism in the natives cultures.
@@youcankillgod what an interesting addition to a talk on papuan tasmanian tigers, something that really needed to be said, you just had to go and say that, didn't you?
@@youcankillgod can I get a source on that?
A great book, devoted to the thylacine, called "The last Tasmanian tiger." Written by Robert Paddle, may still be available. It is by a very creditable source. (Was my science teacher, 40 years ago.)
I read that book years ago and it had a profound effect on me which has not faded with time. I felt shocked and angry and I cursed my ancestors who allowed this beautiful animal to disappear. I still do.
The wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
Wait a damn minute.. that.. it makes so much sense-
Thylacine is one of my favorite animals ever
Not anymore
Sad that this is the first I've heard of the Tasmanian Emu... also killed off...
I didn't know anything about thylacine behavior before this vid!
The Australians literally had a war against emus. And the Australians lost... they seriously sent out their army with machine guns to kill the birds and lost lol.. didn't realize they did eventually go extinct
Tasmanian devils: * sweats nervously *
emus are not extinct, not sure where you got that from
(apart from on Tasmania as noted in the clip)
@@oliverwells8011 There were like four (drunk) soldiers and one malfunctioning machine gun, don't play it up. Then we won through contracting killing. That "Emu war" was on the mainland, too.
I remember watching an animal planet documentary on the thylacine, and how people in Australia claim they still see one from time to time. It totally had me obsessed with them. The bigfoot of the marsupials!
nice story (thumbs up from me) its a sad story even thro its exstinct its still a iconic tasmania icon. it appears on coins and coat of arms of Tasmania. Its a sad story a warning to keep animals a lot more safely in the future. Becasue of the mouth cancer the Tasmania Devil could end up like the Tiger. It would be amazing to see if they could bring the Tigers back by cloning but they would need to work out the ethics on it.
Like Bigfoot, the majority of seekers and report seem to be fabricated misinformation. It is simple to find many common animals in sometime blurry photos represented as thyalcines, even as definitive proof. Just no useful backup evidence, somehow all the positive scats don't get reliable DNA tests, often attributed to the conspiracy the Government and science follow (and these entities can be obstructive/dismissive unreasonably, egos and predetermined attitudes exist).
For anyone interested, a wildlife biologist named Forrest Gallante believes they may still exist and has been looking for them. He has a show called Extinct or Alive and hosts a podcast called The Wild Times.
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I would be so thrilled if they were still alive. They're such interesting and unique creatures. On another note I love your hair!
I will never not be furious about the death of Benjamin the Tasmanian Tiger. What kind of person would be so negligent as to let the last known living specimen freeze? It’s horrific
My grandfather was a teenager when they went extinct. He always referred to them as "Australian Tiger Dogs".
Thanks for the presentation and exquisite drawings. I love your enthusiasm and dedication and can't think of a better advocate for all but especially endangered species.
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I remember my Nanna telling me when I was a kid that she saw a live one in the zoo when she was a child.
That was the last one ever
My first ever PowerPoint presentation in middle school was about the Thylacine. I was obsessed with them.
Wow that was like 20 years ago.
You really went out your way to draw whatever is going on down there in detail
protects them like a wallet
I, for one. Still hold out hope. I also think about the _Ty the Tasmanian Tiger_ video games everytime thylacines are brought up.
Ah yes, the thylacine. What happens when you slam a quoll, a fossa, and a jackal into a blender.
I heard they may exist on some of Tasmania's nearest islands. Maybe? Hugs and loved the show 🌸
Bruny Island, King Island, or Hunter Island? All of which are part of Tasmania, but they aren't part of the Tasmanian mainland.
You have no idea how much I wanted a new science video to watch
For the past few days ive been on a thylacine binge researching whatever I can on this. So sad they were hunted into extinction. I really really hope there are small pockets of them around or at the very least be able to clone them without any health issues
If they were anywhere, they would be in southwest tasmania.
@@blakenance8143 nope, West Papua
@@jaromor8808 papua new guinea is full of animals relatively recently discovered so there's a chance
The video showing it roaming around has been always heartbreaking for me
I'm privileged to have had both Echidnas and Platypus wander onto my property, but I've only seen a Tassie Devil in a wildlife park. The Tasmanian Tiger is extinct IMO. The Thylacine at the end of this video has been seen by just about every primary school student in southern Tasmania. $0.02
At 4:03 is my Great, Great, Grandfather (On the right with the strung up Tassie Tiger). I have the original signed copy in storage. Sad to see the Tigers gone. I hope they make a return.
Read an article in the newspaper a few days ago that the same company that is trying to clone the Woolly Mammoth is also now trying to clone the Tasmanian Tiger as well. And they think they'll be able to clone a Thylacine much sooner too!
My deceased step-uncle saw one once on the west coast of Tasmania around the 1970s or 80s, where the other claimed sightings have occurred too. He was driving one the dark with a mate in the passenger seat, I can't remember if he said it was early morning or night - and a Thylacine crossed the road in front of them. He just turned to his friend and said "nobody would believe us." The other known sighting in the area was in the papers around the same time period, when a mad was travelling the west coast delivering newspapers - another old woman had an interview here once too and lived right in the whoop whoops and could hear their yips sometimes, but wouldn't reveal her area to protect them. so, who knows?
Wish science will succeed to bring Thylacine back.
It's a real possibility, probably one of the species with the best chance of "de-extinction". And it's original habitat still exists!
Hopefully we will be careful this time not to infect it with some common dog disease
There's no need when they still exist! They've been seen in a number of states on the mainland.
These animals were amazing. Absolutely magnificent.
I hope they're still around somewhere, somehow. It's really a shame what we humans have done to so many unique irreplaceable creatures on this Planet.
It's heartbreakingly frustrating, how much damage we've done. Particularly Europeans during the Colonial period.
You're been misinformed. Europeans weren't responsible for their extinction. They were already on their way out when Europeans got there.
These fake news videos really irk me with their "white man bad!" Narratives
Idk if it mentions it yet but I wish more people realized they weren't endemic to Australia/Tasmania but were found in New guinea among other places
I’ve recently seen a video that mentioned a possible Thylacine presence New Guinea. Not saying it’s legit just that the issue has surfaced recently in New Guinea. I have a friend who’s parents were missionaries in the Baliem Valley in New Guinea for over 40 years. The two things that come to mind when I think of the interior of New Guinea are remote and inaccessible.
@Komodo dragon gr I do t think that’s true. Tasmanian tigers were found on the Australian continent until relatively recent times. In fact some pretty convincing photos of tigers in the continental bush have surfaced recently.
They mention it.
@@drewlovely2668 Yep. That’s what reminded me of that account. I sure hope they make a comeback somewhere - whether by finding wild ones or cloning from available DNA.
@@greghelton4668 their information is taken straight from Wikipedia. Whether the thylocine is absolutely literally extinct in any area or not, they are currently classified as extinct across the board.
Like how the Koala was recently (after 2019 and 2020 wildfire seasons) classified as extinct, because they were believed to have been knocked down to population levels that were unsustainable. But shortly after, it was found the wildfires hadn't destroyed as much of their habitat as estimated, and they were returned to 'not extinct' status.
"It's probably been stuffed for about a hundred years now." -- Damn, how much did it eat to be stuffed that long?
Everyone -Thylacines are extinct
Forrest Galente-NO
Poor Benjamin, dying of cold when they left him outside.
It’s really sad seeing and understanding how great of an affect colonialism had on our planet. It was not only the Indigenous peoples who were severely affected but our ecosystem as well. Love the context one of my favorite UA-cam Chanel ❤️
that coyote looking thing is still out there..my Aussie uncle said that even wen they were abundant they were rarely seen and they were always secretive
Willem Dafoe did an excellent job in the film ‘The Hunter’ looking for said Thylacine in a Tasmanian wood, strongly recommend.
Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a large dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.
Given that Thylacines were presumably social animals that had to learn from their parents, and that they have no close living relatives to gestate the clone in, I dont see how bringing them back via cloning would be at all possible
Their nearest relative is the numbat, an insectivore that lives in semi arid areas. But numbats are too small. However scientists have said that a tiger embryo could be made by replacing the DNA in a Devil embryo and implanting the embryo into a Devil, with Devil milk being close enough to feed a new born Tiger.
Thylacine sounds like a drug they'd give you in hospitals
Unlike dogs or dingoes, all five digits on the front paws of a thylacine touch the ground. So, if you’re on a lonely beach or track and you see the tracks of a five-toed dog, take a photo!
Frank Darby, who claimed to have been a keeper at Hobart Zoo, suggested Benjamin as having been the animal's pet name in a newspaper article of May 1968. No documentation exists to suggest that it ever had a pet name, and Alison Reid (de facto curator at the zoo) and Michael Sharland (publicist for the zoo) denied that Frank Darby had ever worked at the zoo or that the name Benjamin was ever used for the animal. Darby also appears to be the source for the claim that the last thylacine was a male. Robert Paddle was unable to uncover any records of any Frank Darby having been employed by Beaumaris/Hobart Zoo during the time that Reid or her father was in charge and noted several inconsistencies in the story Darby told during his interview in 1968.
3:25 "They reportedly loved eating chickens" This photo was staged, with a dead, stuffed thylacine being posed with a dead chicken. It was widely publicized and contributed to their extinction.
they did a better job stuffing that one than the one at the end shown at the museum!
The channel should do a video about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
Hoping that they are around, I learned quite a bit from this!
And almost exactly a month later, a company is now actively working to clone them back into existence.
The same company which is also focusing on cloning the Woolly Mammoth.
If possible(because I’m not sure how much info there is on them), I would really like a megamouth shark video
I hope they are still with us, such a beautiful animal.
Man, the Tasmanian Tiger looks so amazing. It’s a shame that it’s extinct, unless there is a likely chance they could somehow still be alive, living in hiding. Heck, if the Tasmanian Tiger can be brought from extinction, that would be awesome sauce.
Tasmanian emu sounds like a nightmarish creature.
I had no idea that the last one died from essentially being neglected in a zoo. That's really sad. The thylacine's story always hit hard for me. There's footage of them but they are just gone due to humans.
That mouth opens way more than I expected or was prepared for
Can you do oar fish? I just discovered it and it’s crazy!
Oh yeah, don't forget Taz...
He put the Taz in Taz-Mania,
Down in Tazmania, come to Tazmania. We mean you!
Wa-ba-ba-bla-bloopthb!
Yay! Great to see an episode on one of my favorite species!
I love that you included an art wip in the background!
As tragic as the Thylacine extinction was on Tasmania, it's nothing compared to how tragic the extinction of the Aboriginal Tasmanians was. Many people don't even know there were native Tasmanians. And they only lasted about 20 years after first European contact.
this is about animals not human history. technicaly arboriginal tasmanians are not extinct, the species still lives on
@@miguelpedraentomology6080 Of course this video is about an animal, but lord forbid you actually learn something you probably didn't know.
And yes: The original, full blooded, dark skinned people of Tasmania...are indeed extinct. And have been since the late 1800's. There are hundreds of ethnic groups throughout the world that have gone extinct recently. And many of those extinctions have happened within the last 500 years. And those are only the ones we know about, and were documented.
Humans suck. Bring back the thyla
@@Ispeakthetruthify SPECIES! all currently living humans are the SAME SPECIES!
There needs to a distinction made between species extinctions and population demises. A term that used to be used when I did my Bio degree decades ago, but I don't hear much today is: extirpation
Here:
Extinction: a species no longer exists anywhere
Extirpation: local extinction, at least one other population of the species still persists in other areas
So though the unique population of Tasman aboriginals and their culture is gone, the HUMAN species is very much still widely extant.
Have we lost something because of the disappearance of this group of people? ABSOLUTELY! The human epic is about ALL peoples and ethnicities and cultures. We have lost so much of that.
But biologically speaking, we are doing VERY WELL indeed. TOO well!
@@rickkwitkoski1976 OMG.... where do we begin?
While you're trying to sound smart, condescending, and clever....you obviously can't comprehend what I wrote, or you didn't read both of my my posts:
Of course we humans as a SPECIES, are not extinct. Nobody said we were, and we're obviouosly NOT extinct. I can't believe I have to write this(sigh).
But the native Tasmanians, the Palawa, the ethnic group of people that the Europeans encountered when they first reached Tasmania...the ethnic group/race of people that had been living there for THOUSANDS of years...are indeed extinct. That group of people no longer exists on the planet. That is the definition of EXTINCTION.
In no way, shape or form....does that indicate the the entire human race is extinct. But this group of people are. And maybe you should go back to school, because you'd find out that many ethnic groups/races/cultures of people around the world, have indeed gone extinct. It's been happening since our beginnings on this planet, and it has definitely eccelerated within the last 500 or so years.
I don’t understand how people believe the Thylacine is still alive.
Right or wrong who knows; I’m just saying that ‘I’ am confused.
The information I have found states that:
1. While Thylacines were at one point on the Australian Mainland that they died out there due to competition from Dingoes long before the European Settlers arrived.
2. That the European Settlers only encountered them on the island of Tasmania which was their last stronghold.
3. And that the settlers then caused the Thyacines extinction on the island of Tasmania because they believed that the creatures were a threat to their livestock.
4. But now, most of the recent sightings of Thylacines are on the Australian Mainland? When they supposedly went extinct in Tasmania?
So I don’t understand how that works.
If Thyacines were already extinct on the Mainland, only surviving on Tasmania and then were wiped out on Tasmania; how did they get back to the Mainland? Where they had apparently been extinct for a long time already? And where the competitor that seemingly caused their original extinction still widely exists?
It confuses me. What other information have people heard?
I'd love to see Thylacine in my life time in the zoo or in the wild enjoying life.
I would too, I know its impossible but I want to believe its possible
If they get it’s blood or something i think they can revive it
@@Pebbledudee yup, enough dna can be used to make a new one that being said current cloning tech is not the best, it would have a shortened lifespan
Cloning maybe strange and creepy but it could be incredibly useful for both animals and humans.
I would love to hear the story of the short faced bear
Its one of my favourite extinct animals
my dad saw one in 1952 he was 16 years old it walked in front of his truck
Congratulations on the tragic tale and video on the Legendary and mysterious Thylacine aka the Tasmanian Tiger/Wolf my friend! Perhaps one day it will reveal itself but not in Australia or Tasmania but the world will reveal it right before in our eyes.
She found it! And again, thanks for making these videos! Learning about animals with you guys (weather they be from the past or present) brings me so much joy! I don’t know if these guys are still out there but I hope so! Extinction is such a tragedy
The reports of recent Thylacine sightings are by the likes of those who see Bigfoot, The Lochness Monster, and The Mexican Trotting Duck.
Not always.
Missed you, the Artwork is still great. I like watching the drawings develop over the course of the video. 😆😆👍🏻🌹🇦🇺
Yay Danielle looks so amazing! She’s almost the same as when she first started out! I was always worried about her health but she is clearly taking care of herself again! Can’t believe how far this channel has come. I remember when I first found this channel and fell in love with Danielle and her art. Then the dark periods where they didn’t post for a year then Danielle leaving for a while. So happy that they’ve come back stronger than ever WITH DANIELL DUBOIS! Woo!
these bois look like they would take care of the feral cat problem in no time
Awesome this animal has always been interesting to me love hearing about it!
Such magnificent and beautiful animals. I hope they're able to be resurrected.
Love these videos, keep up the great work
Tiny tiger from Crash Bandicoot brought me here
The first time i know about these guys was from crash bandicoot series
I love you, Thylacine! Please come to Brazil!!!!
Can you do somethig About Clownfish
But who shall shed a tear for the noble Tasmanian emu?
Awesome video 😍😍😍😍
Thylacine sounds a lot like some kind of geological epoch
My heart breaks for the loss of this magnificent animals and all the others who have come and gone. 🤍
The scientists who are trying to clone Mammoths should be stopped asap. Its a horrible thing to do to a social creature and such a smart animal. Sometimes we just have to tell scientists no, its not okay to do that. Mammoths died out for a reason, and trying to bring it back is just awful. If they continue to try to do it in another country, they may need to just be dealt with. Bringing back species like that is not a great thing when you have to spend so much money to do so when that could be used on species that are alive today that need it way more.
The closest living relation to the Thylacine is actually the Dunnart. You are wrong. It's not the Numbat !
Could it be cloned, I wonder if theres enough genetic material available ?
There seems to be a lot of specimens
Ironically literally 1 DAY AGO, the group trying to bring back the mammoth, (which I don’t really think we should do lol, but what do I know.), announced they were attempting to genetically make the closest thing to a thylacine.
They could definitely recreate them. They're beautiful creatures.
WOW it's so cute though 🥰
The possibility that thylacines retreated into the jungles and have either not been seen, or been confused for dingoes when they were spotted isn't the most unlikely thing I've heard...
Bonobos are an example of a species remarkably similar to humans that we didn't even know still existed until a few decades ago.
An animal as adept at hiding and as intelligent as a wolf or a coyote could definitely avoid human contact in some of the most remote areas of Tasmania or Australia, and to be honest from afar it'd be hard to tell a pack apart from wild dogs or dingoes... I honestly don't think it'd even be that hard for them, have you seen the population density of Australia? 90% of that continent is just desert or rainforest.
Interesting that you don't blame aborigines for introducing dingos to the Australian mainland from runaways of their domestic dogs.
Also aborigines with prey hunting, directly competed with thylacines. Their yearly fires destroyed habitat. They also outright hunted thylacines too.
Over the millennia the thylacines were slowly driven to extinction on the mainland.
Poor Thylacines!! What made them so adorable was their extra long snouts and little teeth which made them look toothless. . At least, that's what I saw on Benjamin, the last survivor that was not cared for properly and died of hypothermia. I'm sure he got tired of pacing that hard cement cage he was forced to live his lonely life in, though. RIP, adorable Benjamin. 😢
Dingos and Aboriginal tribes drove them to extinction on the mainland, same story on Tasmania except for Dingos, and then the Europeans showed up in the last 250 years and it's all their fault? Why are Natives so infallible?
Totally right, the three mainland apex predators (Thylacine, Thylacaleo & Tas Devil) all extinct on the mainland during the reign of the indigenous culture. We have all been gaslit on the benevolence of the Aust Aboriginal culture & its effect on the ecology.
Because Europeans did in 250 years what aboriginal tribes and dingoes couldn’t do in 4000+.
@@myacct8304 So you're saying Europeans are superior?
@@R.Lennartz Lel
They are treated as so, despite killing off all the mega fauna and burning down most of the bush on the mainland (turning the majority of central Australia into desert. Down here they were wiped out almost entirely, the remnants being bred out of existence. Breeding them out was the plan for the mainland, too, but that fell through. The remnants have been treated somewhat unfairly for a fair while, but many still have rather poor living conditions as a result of Chinese ownership of water sources.
Thylacines were like the last living windows of the ice age world.