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There are no Thylacines left. If there were, one would have been road killed by now. Source. Australian. Have had near misses with every kind of non-extinct Au
by simonvc 8y ago
There are no Thylacines left. If there were, one would have been road killed by now.
Source. Australian. Have had near misses with every kind of non-extinct Australian wildlife while riding motorbikes around tassie.
- danieltillett 8y agoThere are a few dead ones in museums. As long as the DNA remains there is hope we could bring them back.
- pvaldes 8y agoThis way of thinking, "but we could always bring them back" can be also a problem. I would call it the belief in Magic science. We don't know the economics of recreating an extinct species, but would be most probably not only technically challenging, but also very expensive. Even if we technically could bring back the rainforests to small areas of the sahara, the probability of seeing it done is zero. Is possible, but the huge resources needed are limited and would not allow it. Saving the vaquita or the totoba, or the frogs, can be challenging but is easier and much cheaper than trying to bring back the same animals from the extinction tomorrow.
- danieltillett 8y agoI agree, but I was just trying to make the point that the Tasmanian tiger is only 99.99999% extinct. The genetic information we have is vastly better than having nothing all. I personally would love to see a living Tasmanian tiger and while I don't think I ever will, maybe my grandchildren will.
- dwd 8y agoI recently visited the East coast and was shocked at the amount of roadkill. You see more dead wildlife in a day than you're likely to see alive in any zoo.
- XalvinX 8y agoThere are something like 50,000 mountain lions in California alone (and many more throughout North America) yet they never end up as roadkill..unheard of. Some animals are smarter than others.