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Jeanette X · #1

The thylacine, or Tasmanian wolf, was a doglike marsupial that once lived in Tasmania. It became extinct because of man. On September 7, 1936, Benjamin, the last living thylacine on earth, died in a zoo in Hobart, Austraila. Ironically, governmental protection for the thylacine was insitutited just a few months earlier that very year. Today is the 67th anniversary of the the death of the last of a unique and beautiful species.
This day is also National Endangered Species Day in Austrailia.
This link lists the many species that have become extinct because of man: http://home.conceptsfa.nl/~pmaas/rea/extinctanimals.htm
To learn more about the thylacine, please go to http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/

R.I.P.

Immortal Goat · #2

Well, if it died in a zoo, they might have tissue samples or something, and if they do, then they can just clone the poor bastard and re-populate Tazmania, can't they?

Immortal Goat · #3

And another thing, this thread is called "National Endangered Species Day", but this creature you speak of is already extinct, and therefor no longer endangered.

KevinTheOmnivore · #4

This is a scary looking son of a bitch. Should we want this guy around....?

CaptainBubba · #5

Damnit, Kevin posted before me.

To: Immortal goat

1. Were you born stupid?

2. Are you stupid or something?

3. To clone an animal one would require far more than a flesh sample. You need a fertilized egg of a compatable species and unless dogs are close enough this would be impossible for obvious fucking reasons. I hate ignorance on cloning. It pisses me off to no end that people think cloning is somehow a magical process that requires nothing ut a DNA sample. Moron.

4. The anniversary of its extinction is the same day as this day for, once again, obvious fucking reasons.

Jeanette X · #6

Captain Bubba, I think I love you.

As for cloning the thylacine, they do have some snippets of DNA from a preserved pup in jar, but there are some reasons against cloning:
1. The DNA is only partial.
2. Since there are no thylacines around to implant the clone into, they would have to use its closest living relative, the Tasmanian devil, and nobody is sure that would even work.
3. It would cost an enourmous amount of money, money that might be better spent saving living species that still have a fighting chance.
4. Even if you do clone it successfully, it won't have any other thylacines to mate with, thus no offspring, and so it would be impossible to reintroduce the thylacine anyway.

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Originally Posted by KevinTheHerbivore

This is a scary looking son of a bitch. Should we want this guy around....?

That's just a still from an old film. Its only yawning. The reason the jaws are so large is because the thylacine used to use them to crush the skulls of prey.

ScruU2wice · #7

im with kevin thats one scary hound

I watch alotta tv and they show these people saying that there been sightings of these wolves around australia. They've just grown a fear of humans. I'm one of those people that like to believe in this kinda. However theres no conclusive evidence, to there existence. theres some more info on this site:
http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.ns...AN-53777B?open

Jeanette X · #8

Nobody can say for sure if there still are thylacines around. I certainly hope there are. But they are offically extinct.

I think the thylacine is cute, personally.

O71394658 · #9

99% of all the species that ever lived are now extinct. It sucks, but it's natural selection, even if "man" was involved.

It's competition (I would believe this was due to land encroachment by humans). They lost.

CaptainBubba · #10

I want one as a pet.

I have a thing for wierd and rare animals. So far I want one of these, a "pika", and this wierd pig thing with zebra stripes whose name I forget.

Those puppies they show in the page about Benjamin are awsome. They're so cute but have such evil mouths.

Jeanette X · #11

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So far I want one of these, a "pika", and this wierd pig thing with zebra stripes whose name I forget.

You mean a baby tapir?

FreakinStrange · #12

I want a baby tapir too

Immortal Goat · #13

Hey, on that cloning thing, i'm just going by what i heard about it on TechTV, and if it was inaccurate, don't blame me, blame the press.

CaptainBubba · #14

Thats it Jeanette! Tapir!

Also heres a pic of a Pika.

They're like really small bunny/hamster mixes. Basically the cutest thing on earth.

Jeanette X · #15

Ah yes. The pika. I put one in my "cute things" thread.

ScruU2wice · #16

Pft... its not so great its just posing of that one pokemon

El Blanco · #17

People, I'm supposed to be on a diet and all this is just making me hungry.

Jeanette X · #18

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Originally Posted by ScruU2wice

Pft... its not so great its just posing of that one pokemon

Christ. Someone else made a Pokemon joke on the other thread too.

Professor Cool · #19

They're gone live with it, yet LONG LIVE THE CANARY ISLAND GIANT LIZARD.

Sethomas · #20

I like to flavour my shark-fin soup with powdered black rhinocerous horn. You know, for fertility.

The_Rorschach · #21

Not to be overly cynical, but entropy embraces everything. In a universe where entire galaxies can disappear like grains of sand through an hourglass, what is one species?

Smile Jeanette, and don't pine after what has already passed. Be content that what is already gone can at least be remembered rather than lost completely to antiquity.

Perndog · #22

I think blue jays are beautiful, and they're not endangered, thus, I don't care about all those endangered species because after they die off I will still have blue jays.

Zhukov · #23

Jeanette X

It's called a Tasmanian Tiger you silly Americans.

It had the biggest jaw of any marsupial. And thats where my knowledge ends.

The Tasmanian devil is also becoming more and more rare, a mysterious disease is wiping them out.