One very interesting detail of thylacine
One little detail about the book and TV-series "Arthur C. Clarke's mysterious world" is that in this book we will meet our friend "thylacine"(1), or "Tasmanian Tiger", and I sometimes have thought that this animal has something, what people don't want to tell to a great audience. So the question is, why Clarke choose that animal in the book that tells about great mysteries? The "thylacine" died because of hunting and the last known individual died in the zoo in the year 1933. That animal seems like a mixture of German Shepherd and opossum(1), and it hunted like the opossum. But it was bigger than it. But the biggest species of opossums is 90 cm long, and that means that it can also be very big.
But then we can think another possibility, that another marsupial "Tasmanian devil" has been killed that very interesting animal, and the reason would be that thylacine was not afraid of the Tasmanian devil. And what would be the reason for that? There is one theory, that might be interesting about people, and the thing is that thylacine didn't know that Tasmanian Devil is the beast. And that brings a really interesting question about that. Normally animals are afraid of their natural hunters and the question is, why thylacines were not afraid of the beast.
So was thylacine newcomer species? And here it goes very interesting. The thylacine is looking like very much another marsupial opossum. The opossum drinks the blood of the prey and that makes thing makes those animals sometimes very creepy, and there are many tales about those animals.
That behavior is not unique in the world of animals, and also cats and other beasts are drinking the blood, what comes from the injuries of the victims, because that denies other animals notice, that the beast is hunting in some areas. Sometimes the victims of vampires are victims of the opossum but those might be only stories. Here we must remember that opossums are very large groups of animals, and the largest known species, the Virginian opossum could be over 90 centimeters long.
So could thylacine be opossum? When we are seeing the pictures of the thylacine, they seem very big, but if the pictures are taken in a zoo, those animals could be much bigger than the same kind of animals, what is living in the natural environment. But the thylacines are looking like little bit German Shepherds, and that thing has brought in my mind one very creepy question: are those animals hybrids?
So if the opossums are somehow entered into Tasmania, we must ask the reason, what those animals are doing in there? Did they swim over the Pacific ocean? Or are they took to Tasmania for some kind of purpose? And is that purpose make some kind of hybrid species, for some kind of purpose? But what would be the purpose of that thing?
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