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Thylacine - long way from home
I found this poor bugger stuck in the Museum of Natural History in New York. He was dumped at the top of a staircase, with no fanfare. I can't imagine many people taking notice of it unless they happened to recognise that it was a Tasmanian Tiger. The thing died in a Boston zoo. I got really sad, even a little teary looking at it. It was a skinny stuffed thing, but I thought it was very beautiful, which kind of suprised me. I thought if this is all that's left, then it should really be back home in Tasmania. The sadness of the animal's extinction tends to get lost behind stories about whether there are survivors out there in the wildness. There aren't, and humanity's to blame. We suck.
PS. Another Tassie Tiger photo can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/cenz/11848145/
Thylacine - long way from home
I found this poor bugger stuck in the Museum of Natural History in New York. He was dumped at the top of a staircase, with no fanfare. I can't imagine many people taking notice of it unless they happened to recognise that it was a Tasmanian Tiger. The thing died in a Boston zoo. I got really sad, even a little teary looking at it. It was a skinny stuffed thing, but I thought it was very beautiful, which kind of suprised me. I thought if this is all that's left, then it should really be back home in Tasmania. The sadness of the animal's extinction tends to get lost behind stories about whether there are survivors out there in the wildness. There aren't, and humanity's to blame. We suck.
PS. Another Tassie Tiger photo can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/cenz/11848145/