Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/17/newly-discovered-c-1933-footag.html
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I’ve seen a few stills of the Tasmanian Tiger, seeing it in motion gave me chills. It looks like no animal I’ve seen before. It seems somewhat dog-like but also not quite. Really cool, and a shame that it is gone forever like so many other animals.
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The sun above me and a concrete floor below
Scratch at the chain links, maybe bare my teeth for show
Fed twice a day, I don’t go hungry anymore
Feel in my bones just what the future has in store
I pace in circles
So the camera will see
Look hard at my stripes
There’ll be no more after me
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I keep out some small, vain hope that there are a few in the wilds of Tasmania. There are some moderately credible sightings and that is some wild, uncharted country.
The book “Tasmanian Tiger” by David Owen is a great read.
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Now I need to go watch Howling III again.
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We are always looking for new information on this amazing animal.
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Mike! Thanks for joining us! Keep up the great work.
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The museum in Hobart has this footage on a permanent loop:
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Thanks Pesco.
I am hanging on the coat tails of my friends who really know there tiger lore. 
It’s an example of convergent evolution. Completely different family tree, however they’ve evolved in a similiar environment and this type of creature clearly survives well in it.
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BTW…if the thylacine was Australia’s native wolf/dog equivalent [1], then quolls are the Oz-evolved cat-equivalent.
Quoll:
[1] Dingos aren’t Australian-evolved, they migrated in from Asia a few thousand years before the European invasion.
You reminded me of this
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