Talk:Thylacine

message: In the lede, the sentence that begins "They had almost died out out on the Australian mainland from around 2,000 years ago..." is not very good. I presume the duplicated "out" is just a typo; if the second "out" was meant to form a phrase "out on the Australian mainland" this is a poor choice of words. I don't know what to make of "almost died out...from around 2,000 years ago". What does that mean? If it means that their population started declining 2,000 years ago and they almost died out, we should say that. -- Srleffler (talk) 07:24, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There is better wording for that situation in the section of the article titled Dying out on the Australian mainland, where it is well sourced, so I have used that text to replace to poor wording you identified. Thanks for raising the issue. HiLo48 (talk) 08:13, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  They had almost died out out from 

message: The idea that climate change was a factor in the extinction of the Thylacine his highly dubious at best.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zenzpete (talk • contribs) 11:00, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Zenzpete - That was my first impression too, but that part of the section titled Dying out on the Australian mainland is well sourced. HiLo48 (talk) 22:45, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The source does give climate change as a legitimate cause, but it is one of many, and i'd be OK with reducing its importance to the level of human encroachment or the distemper disease etc. If nobody objects I will come back at a later time and do this, or someone else can do it. Desertarun (talk) 20:19, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubts about climate change as cause for extinction 

message: An omission from this article is the reason the dingo is likely to be the major cause of thylacine's extinction. It does seem clear to me that the dingo predated on the thylacine and actively killed them, in the same way that the Gray Wolf when reintroduced into America began hunting Coyotes and drastically reduced their numbers in that locality, but I didn't find a source that says this. The closest I came was finding a source that said dingoes aren't present on Tasmania and this is the smoking gun that means they pushed out thylacine on the Australian mainland. Desertarun (talk) 20:19, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Just be careful of writing something that is obviously your own original research. ALL our content is expected to be backed up by reliable, independent sources. This same comment applies to your proposal in the section above. HiLo48 (talk) 00:35, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course, I'm saying I think a source for this exists, so does anyone have it? Desertarun (talk) 05:05, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Dingoes hunting thylacines

message: The description of the Thylacine’s ideal prey says “small to medium-sized prey such as […] opossums”.
Shouldn’t this be edited to “possums” and point to Phalangeriformes instead?   Australasian possums are a completely different animal (the opossum article even makes this distinction). Soskit (talk) 23:24, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possums 

message: The current section about the last captive thylacine - which says the animal was female - is confusing and appears to contradict Endling#Mammals in regard to details such as the gender of the animal, and the name of the trapper who caught it. The Endlings article quotes a 2023 review which concludes that the last Hobart zoo thylacine was male. Muzilon (talk) 00:56, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict with [[Endlings]]