Tasmanian tiger devotees feed Australia's guilty obsession with a deliberate extinction
Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 20.21 EST They regularly post bags full of scat to biology professors for testing. They spend their life savings on expensive camera equipment trying to capture one creature and create active social groups which have broken into warring rival factions. One has spent half a century of his life on the quest. And they’re on the plane down to Tasmania even more than Jacqui Lambie. What makes people so fixated on trying to prove the thylacine – also known as the Tasmanian tiger and last spotted in 1936 – isn’t extinct? One thing’s certain: their disappoin...
Source: theguardian.com