Forgotten Griffin

ティラキヌス　Thylacinus potens

中新世後期に生息したフクロオオカミ属の一種。

Something that could have been

Here’s a nice thylacine photograph I personally hadn’t seen before. From Eric Guiler’s book “Tasmanian Tiger: A Lesson to be Learnt.”

Photo caption in the book states that it’s a male at the Beaumaris Zoo.

New Thylacine Photos

Thylacine skull By: W. S. Berridge From: The Book of the Animal Kingdom 1910

Charles R. Knight (1874-1953), Tasmanian Wolf and Cubs

Hi!!! I baguely remember a photo of a thylacine with a joey poking out of the pouch and it stuck with me a lot because it surprised me to learn their pouch opened backwards, but I can't for the live of me to find it. Do you perhaps have it around? Thank you!!

Hello! Thank you for the ask!

I have a few ideas what the photo you are looking for might be.

First is the Buckland and Springbay mother and pups photo. This was a taxidermy that was later destroyed, however portrays a joey emerging from the pouch:

Next is the family group from the Washington zoo:

(portrait done by Joseph M Gleeson of the Washington zoo family)

This was a mother and 3 Joey's that were brought into the national zoo in Washington DC. The Joey in the pouch ended up passing away in September unfortunately.

Beaumaris zoo group:

This was a mama with an extended pouch from four Joeys. In the film where the keepers are getting them into the den for the night her pouch is easily seen moving as she walks.

Lastly pictographs:

These are a collection of pictographs from around mainland Australia that depict Thylacinus Cynocephalus. Note the two middle on the left that have an extra tail, showcasing young in the pouch.

This doesn't show the pouch but it's one of my favorites.

If none of these are it and you have more ideas on what the picture may be let me know! Send as many asks as you'd like! As far as I know I'm aware of all or at least the majority of thylacine media.

I spend a lot of time in archives *sob*

Dobsegna: in some parts of Papua New Guinea

I've also heard moonlight wolf (hence the blog name lol) that's uncommonly used.

What’s in a name?

Just for fun, I thought I’d compile a list of names for the thylacine in various languages.

Scientific: Thylacinus cynocephalus (lit. ‘dog-headed pouched one’); formerly Didelphis cynocephala (lit. ‘dog-headed opossum’) [x]

English: Thylacine, Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, zebra wolf, marsupial wolf - Uncommon/old names: Zebra opossum, dog-faced dasyurus, native hyena, native tyger

Aboriginal: Coorinna, loarinna, laoonana, lagunta [x]

Spanish: Tilacino

German: Beutelwolf (lit. ‘bag wolf’)

French: Loup marsupial (lit. ‘marsupial wolf’)

Japanese: フクロオオカミ (fukuro-ookami, lit. ‘bag wolf’)

Swedish: Pungvarg [thanks bigfishboss]

Finnish: Pussihukka

Do you know any others?

There's a lot of angles of the skin we're missing

But I know a Thylacine's stripes are often compared to finger prints

(these are just observations)

1. Highlighted: branches of Benjamin's stripes where they connect to each other within the fur pattern.

Most are connected visibly on the photograph, while the skin only has one major visible branch.

We have witnessed museum specimens losing coloration before so that could be a theory as why the pelt is different if it is Benjamin.

2. Next is these two marks that I can't tell if their stripes or scars that Benjamin had. I don't know if the skin is cut where those marks would be visible or not.

Again just observations ^^

BRUH????

They are friends

(idk when yellow footed rock wallabies first broke off into an individual species, but perhaps Thylacinus Cynocephalus was on the mainland then)

Also I found the resource I've been looking for to make that art project of thylacinid family tree.