Close to zero chance they’re still around but may have still been around as recently as 40 years ago (see THIS recent analysis.)
Basically the same view as Monk for me. There's little doubt in my mind that thylacines persisted beyond 1936, perhaps even as recently as the 80s, but the possibility of there still being a population of big predatory mammals large enough to sustain itself for this long and yet remain undetected is extraordinarily unlikely.
I've heard of the New Guinean thylacines (or "dobsegnas" as they are allegedly known), and I do think it'd genuinely make more sense for them to still survive there. The descriptions supposedly given by the indigenous people do sound pretty convincing as thylacines, my main worry though is that cryptozoologists have an extensive history of making up or twisting oral legends and attributing them to indigenous groups which really makes me question the credibility of these claims. If a more reliable study on indigenous accounts of thylacine-like animals was conducted, similar to one recently done in Madagascar to investigate the possibility of late surviving giant fossa, then I might have more faith, but until then I'm remaining sceptical.
I absolutely loved this idea so I also created a tree for the mammals I've seen in the wild. Very productive. I couldn't get the coloring as pretty as @Chuditch , but I still think it's cool:The list of terrestrial vertebrate species I've seen in the wild currently sits at 74 mammals, 331 birds, 99 reptiles and 10 frogs, so much too many to recount here. However, I did make a phylogenetic tree out of my mammal life list the other day (no better way to procrastinate on my uni assignments lol), which offers me a particularly fancy way of presenting it:
(introduced species have their names in red)
That’s an amazing amount
I see that you had a lot of crazy encounters too! I mean tapir? Wow! Where did these encounters happen?Hmm I can go over the encounters. A lot are from my home country, and last year I got to travel quite a bit, and had quite a bit of luck there.That’s an amazing amount
OMG i've been wanting to watch the orcas in puerto Madryn. I'm probably going back this year so i hope i'm lucky enough to see them this time.
Hey I might be there this year as well! Also, take a guided tour. The guides notify each other if one finds an Orca, which greatly increases your chances.
pretty impressive, I see you miss a lot of Asian animals
I'd say go to Borneo I think the best place for SEASimilar story here! My dog was barking at something and i went to investigate. Managed to snap a picture of this weird creature scurrying around in the bushes.
Reminds me of a funny video I've seen on instagram a while ago: a guy birding sees a mockingbird through his binoculars and shouts in excitment "oh is that a mockingbird?!" and the mockingbird is mocking him and repeats the sentence twice making the birder feel ridiculous
They don’t come out of the water often. I only see it once every few months, but I always take pics every time I see it.Reminds me of a funny video I've seen on instagram a while ago: a guy birding sees a mockingbird through his binoculars and shouts in excitment "oh is that a mockingbird?!" and the mockingbird is mocking him and repeats the sentence twice making the birder feel ridiculous
Also, really cool too see a snapping turtle moving on land. I've never seen one outside of the water (in zoos).
