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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

On this day in 1936, the very last Thylacine died.
What a testament to our pig ignorance as a race, that we should have hunted such a unique and beautiful creature to extinction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odswg...&feature=share

thanks to Veronica Sullivan for the reminder.

Thank you JJJ and Veronica....

Originally Posted by Stardrifter_WA

That is sad jjjnettie, but sadly, not unusual, as we still haven't learned that lesson, it seems?

+1

Originally Posted by GeoffW1

It was in this mood I recently read Julia Leigh's "The Hunter" (also a good film starring Willem Dafoe), a novel about a man sent to hunt a (possibly the last) wild thylacine. It is set in just-recent times, and the theme seems to be on the intrusion of the outside, technical, commercial world into the preserved stillness of the remote Tasmanian wilderness.

I found it saddening and plausible, just as we should today.

Thanks

Watched the movie........Believable, haunting......Well worth the watch espescially on bluray!!!!!!! get it and watch it!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Ric

And we still haven't learnt.

+1

Thats all