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‘Tasmanian tiger’ footage not of a thylacine but a pademelon, experts say
“We found a thylacine.”
They’re the words so many of us would love to be true.
And when we heard them (again) this week, this time in the title of a video posted to YouTube by the president of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia (TAGOA) Neil Waters, we couldn’t help but become a little bit excited, albeit against our better instincts.
In the video uploaded on Monday, Mr Waters claimed to have captured footage of not one, but three thylacines — proof, he said, “of breeding”.
Addressing a handheld camera as he strolled through “some little town in north-east Tassie”, Mr Waters admitted the footage of the “mum and dad” thylacines was “ambiguous”.
“However,” he claimed, “the baby is not ambiguous”.
“The baby has stripes, a stiff tail,…
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