What were we thinking?
The NFSA has released colourised footage of the last known surviving Tasmanian tiger - or Thylacine - for National Threatened Species Day. Read more about how this B&W footage has been given a new life. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/colourised-footage-last-tasmanian-tiger …
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Thylacine Colour
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Ask that to the poachers/hunters
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This makes me feel so sad
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I'm crying...
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It's so crazy how the Thylacine looks so much like a dog, kinda acts like a dog, yet it couldn't be any further from a dog.
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Convergent Evolution. It's fascinating. There's an excellent article about it here: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-shared-evolution-of-the-tasmanian-tiger-and-the-wolf#:~:text=The%20thylacine%20and%20placental%20canids%20such%20as%20wolves%2C,similar%20forms%20in%20response%20to%20shared%20environmental%20challenges ….
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it suddenly feels so much more real despite being the same footage
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And with that it becomes so much more sad that it’s gone
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Watching the footage with this song playing was a bit hard on my heart. :(
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