Can we try to sort out this cat/wolf/tiger-thing? It looks like a dog-thing to me.

Could you imagine working as a scat tester?

"how was work today?"
"crappy"

Some days, though, you'd be like "hey, this is some awesome shiat..."

[img]http://www.austcorporate.com.au/images/tas.gif[/img]

"*%*%* )(@* &^$@#&^ !^#@%$%!@ !&^@*! Cousin's back in town."

Tasmanian Tiger?

I'm astonished, but mildy relieved to discover that a GIS for "yawning pussy" returns no documents.

The tasmanian tiger is not a cat. Its called a tiger because its stripy. Its a marsupial, does'nt even look like a cat. Dont understand all the talk about big cats in the article, Oz have no native cats. But still preatty neat if theyre not extinct.

I thought Native Cats were indigenous to Australia. (I know I'm being facetious, so sue me :))

http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/mammals/images/geoflive.jpg

Yawning cats look like vicious cobras preparing to strike. *shudders* Cats are disgusting. I'm a fully hetero male, which means I like dogs. Wait, but not in that way....

This is a train-wreck of a post. :-(

The Tasmanian Tiger is back from the extinction(dead), and he is looking for revenge upon the blokes who wiped him out.
"Take yer Waltzing Matilda and shove it up yer ass!"
-Vengeful Marsupial, that is back from the extinction.

There are panther and cougar sitings in Australia, possibly animals that were being kept as pets. I believe in the 60's there was a fad of big-cat-pet-ownership, and people abandoned them when they got too hard to control. A panther could do pretty well in the blue mountains; kangaroos and emus probably wouldn't identify a panther as a big threat...until too late.

Any Relation?

cqaudi, nope, that is a Tazmanian devil, a different creature alltogether.

It would be great if they survived. Sad to see creatures like this disappear and only be seen through photos and models.

http://home.mira.net/~areadman/tiger.htm

"The female has a backward facing pouch, and extraordinary the male also has a pouch, his though to protect his testicles"

that is brilliant

I personally really hope they do discover a tasmanian tiger alive in Aus. For one thing, they've been extinct there for much longer than in Tasmania. Second, they are cool as hell. Ugly, but cool. I want to see one and I want my kids to see one.

jonr -

I said "relation" not same creature. For example, some say we are "related" to monkey's.

Last year there was a big to-do about a group of scientists attempting to clone a tasmanian tiger. Never heard anything else about it after that. Wussupwitdat?

"ok, let me know if his condition changes."

"hes dead."

Damn. I was hoping that they'd actually found one, instead of just more rumors. Can't say I put much credence into this. Certainly would be nice if they aren't all dead, though.

Go Steve Irwin Go!

Rumors of our extinction have been greatly exaggerated.

"I'm not dead yet!"

"Parks Victoria officer Glen Jameson, who compiled reports of thylacine sightings in the Warrandyte area between 1991 and 1999, said they could be an example of "mass sociogenic illness".

I'd call it "Taz-Mania"

/copyright Warner Bros.

I was watching this documentary about thylacines on the discovery channel, and I thought they were pretty boring because they just look pretty much like normal dogs. But then I saw one of those guys yawn.... holy crap, they could swallow a person whole with that mouth!

Microbe I personally really hope they do discover a tasmanian tiger alive in Aus. For one thing, they've been extinct there for much longer than in Tasmania.

Really? I thought they've been extinct for the exact same amount of time in both.