| The thylacine, with its twistable elbow, was more of an ambusher. |
| Historians in centuries hence will wonder if the thylacine was an actual animal of flesh and blood or a pantheon of thylacinamorphic deities. |
| Occasionally, Tasmanians report possible sightings of a thylacine lurking in the wilderness. |
| In life the tail probably passed almost imperceptibly into the body, as in the Tasmanian thylacine. |
| In Australia, he predicted with great regret the extinction of the thylacine and called the authorities short-sighted for not protecting red kangaroos. |
| Dingoes were originally pack animals and Australia's largest carnivores, and are believed to have caused the extinction of the thylacine and Tasmanian devil on the mainland. |
