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Chris Rehberg shares the results of his quest for the elusive Thylacine...
Wildlife biologist Nick Mooney once said that something like gold-fever overcomes people infatuated with the Tasmanian tiger. I think I know first-hand what he was talking about! The Tasmanian tiger (or thylacine) was Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial. It looked like a wolf, had stripes like a zebra, and like a kangaroo, carried its young in a pouch. Sadly, it would seem that its only trace we have left are a few silent black and white films, photos, artworks, stories and museum specimens. The Tasmanian tiger has entered the realm of folklore and myth. Or has it?
Several times in my childhood, I'd be fixated with the prospect that the thylacine might live on in the wilderness of Tasmania. What could seem more reasonable? The island state is one third protected in national parks and world heritage areas – surely ample room for a few hundred dog-sized animals to seek refuge? After all, there are tens of thousands of Tasmanian devils in that state, yet you'll be lucky if you see one while driving around. Living in Sydney (and not Tasmania) makes it awfully hard to search for thylacines, so I turned my efforts to the area most accessible: research.
Trawling through books and websites, chat forums, community groups and museums, I began searching for any evidence that the thylacine might be alive today. Although hundreds of Tasmanian sightings have been reported since its accepted extinction in 1936, what was more surprising was that this number was just about matched by mainland sightings. In 2004, the Western Australian government released a report providing data derived from some 203 alleged sightings in that state. A thylacine mummy discovered there in 1966 was initially assumed to be only a few years old based on its pristine condition. Carbon dating eventually put it at 4,600–4,700 years. Then there was the theory that the dating was tarnished by groundwater, which had soaked through the carcass.
In South Australia, in the late 1960s, there were a spate of sightings as farming land was opened up in the south-east of that state. Then, in 1973, some of the most intriguing film footage was captured of an animal running through a camp-ground with a gait that can only be described as inelegant. If only there were film footage from the 1930s of a running thylacine to make a comparison!
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Chris Rehberg shares the results of his quest for the elusive Thylacine...
Wildlife biologist Nick Mooney once said that something like gold-fever overcomes people infatuated with the Tasmanian tiger. I think I know first-hand what he was talking about! The Tasmanian tiger (or thylacine) was Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial. It looked like a wolf, had stripes like a zebra, and like a kangaroo, carried its young in a pouch. Sadly, it would seem that its only trace we have left are a few silent black and white films, photos, artworks, stories and museum specimens. The Tasmanian tiger has entered the realm of folklore and myth. Or has it?Several times in my childhood, I'd be fixated with the prospect that the thylacine might live on in the wilderness of Tasmania. What could seem more reasonable? The island state is one third protected in national parks and world heritage areas – surely ample room for a few hundred dog-sized animals to seek refuge? After all, there are tens of thousands of Tasmanian devils in that state, yet you'll be lucky if you see one while driving around. Living in Sydney (and not Tasmania) makes it awfully hard to search for thylacines, so I turned my efforts to the area most accessible: research.
Trawling through books and websites, chat forums, community groups and museums, I began searching for any evidence that the thylacine might be alive today. Although hundreds of Tasmanian sightings have been reported since its accepted extinction in 1936, what was more surprising was that this number was just about matched by mainland sightings. In 2004, the Western Australian government released a report providing data derived from some 203 alleged sightings in that state. A thylacine mummy discovered there in 1966 was initially assumed to be only a few years old based on its pristine condition. Carbon dating eventually put it at 4,600–4,700 years. Then there was the theory that the dating was tarnished by groundwater, which had soaked through the carcass.
In South Australia, in the late 1960s, there were a spate of sightings as farming land was opened up in the south-east of that state. Then, in 1973, some of the most intriguing film footage was captured of an animal running through a camp-ground with a gait that can only be described as inelegant. If only there were film footage from the 1930s of a running thylacine to make a comparison!
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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