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new thylacine photo!!!!!!!!
Old 28-09-2007
check this out!!!!!!!! apparently this photo was taken in 1978 at a wildlife park in indonesia...
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Wow!
Call me gullible, but I'm sold!(The back foot is a real indicator.)

Do we know anything about this animal? Captured in New Guinea?
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Old 28-09-2007
Call me sceptical, but I'm sure if it was real, we'd have heard about it before now! It looks pretty good, but the animal looks very overweight for a thylacine, and it's forearms are way too fat. It's face also looks pretty short and overly padded.

Did it come with any half-decent info Pat?
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I think it looks suspiciously like a fossa with added stripes
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Thats a interesting photo Pat, wonder what a expert would make of the shape of the backfoot?
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I knew I'd seen it before. It must be an inside job.

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Patrick, Patrick, Patrick!

Not only are you a fine artist, you're a fine BS artist too!!

Well done my friend. Surely I could harness your talents somehow?
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Old 28-09-2007
Bet you australians never seen a fossa before? You really should visit Duisburg Zoo sometimes :P
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Such a tease, but excellently done!
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Yes,I've seen this picture before, I think that It's a fossa at Colchester zoo.
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Call me sceptical, but I'm sure if it was real, we'd have heard about it before now! It looks pretty good, but the animal looks very overweight for a thylacine, and it's forearms are way too fat. It's face also looks pretty short and overly padded.

Did it come with any half-decent info Pat?
Anything is possible. Especially in rainforest habitat. New species are being described from little researched areas like Indochina and even well researched ones in Madagascar all the time. So, nothing ... nothing is impossible. Vast parts of New Guinea have never seen a westerner. And westerners are not particularly well known for visitting SEAZA range zoos. So, ...... anything is possible and I remain an optimist when it comes to saving the world's flora and fauna (scepticism only breeds complacency in the face of all threats to the earth's natural wonders).
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Old 29-09-2007
Oh well, you got me there ....

But I do think that extinction is not a laughing matter. We might be complacent about 1, 100, 1,000 or 10,000 .. but in the end we kill ourselves off. If you are not into nature conservation ... fine, but do it than for one's own damn survival!!!
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Old 29-09-2007
I'm glad I realised what it was before I started getting excited.... The chubby foreleg is a bit of a giveaway and I don't think you have the ears QUITE long enough, but otherwise it certainly lends itself very well to the job you've done. I do admire the striping and particularly how carefully you have placed the light patches above and below the eyes- a very distinctive feasture which isn't often mentioned.

VERY clever....
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wow, that was really well done. Maybe a few too many stripes to the fore, but very impressive. Shows how you can never trust photographic evidence these days! Kudos to patrick (or kudus if you prefer )
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