Beutelwolf :D

eyesperceive:

well this is an interesting animal… thylacine

Colorized Thylacines pt. 3

A woman looks into a diorama of three Thylacines, date and location unknown. [ x ]

From 50 Facts About Animals by Ron B. Taylor, published in 1983.

Vanished Species, written by David Day, published in 1989. Illustration by Maurice Wilson.

some more images of the thylacine you have probably never seen before

Dobsegna: in some parts of Papua New Guinea

I've also heard moonlight wolf (hence the blog name lol) that's uncommonly used.

What’s in a name?

Just for fun, I thought I’d compile a list of names for the thylacine in various languages.

Scientific: Thylacinus cynocephalus (lit. ‘dog-headed pouched one’); formerly Didelphis cynocephala (lit. ‘dog-headed opossum’) [x]

English: Thylacine, Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, zebra wolf, marsupial wolf - Uncommon/old names: Zebra opossum, dog-faced dasyurus, native hyena, native tyger

Aboriginal: Coorinna, loarinna, laoonana, lagunta [x]

Spanish: Tilacino

German: Beutelwolf (lit. ‘bag wolf’)

French: Loup marsupial (lit. ‘marsupial wolf’)

Japanese: フクロオオカミ (fukuro-ookami, lit. ‘bag wolf’)

Swedish: Pungvarg [thanks bigfishboss]

Finnish: Pussihukka

Do you know any others?

some more thylacines from the london zoo

some more images of the thylacine you have probably never seen before

Preserved adult thylacines