How do you mean?
Well, like this for example. There are more like that too.
I'veno doubt whatsoever of the value of Aboriginal tradition, but I'm very catious about accepting it when it relates to the thylacine, not because I'm doubting what they say as such, but because I'm doubting the interpretation of who says they said it. There's a very well known example of this in Paddle's 2000 book where he cites oral tradition of the thylacine from the Finders Range. Except when you go to his reference material, as Branden Holmes of the Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database did, you find that it's not at all related to the thylacine at all.
That's a very good point. To me it means further investigation is needed.
Yeah no problem. A friend of mine was involved in the Batty TV interview. Wilf was born in Bradford in 1904, died in 1989, I assume in Mawbanna. Which interview are you asking about though, radio or TV, I believe one was 1996, the earlier one I'll ask my friend, and the radio interview I don't know but it's here
But equally surely the method of dating the age of the tradition isn't that accurate either so it evens out? Either way +/- 2,000 years is still well within the area's occupation period.
Doh! It says 1974, is there more than one interview?
I meant to mention that remark.Doh! It says 1974, is there more than one interview?
I want to know everything please OR, thanks you have been very helpful.
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Interesting. Old rover - that dog in the photo looks shit scared, and he's looking pointedly at the Tigers carcass.
Yes, that photo has been used to illustrate that point. But there's another photo taken moments before or after that shows the dog looking completely relaxed.
That might well be it. My old dog was petrified of guns.Oh I dunno OR - he still looks tense in the alternate photo - his shoulders are set and his head's still down...on second thoughts maybe it's the shotgun?
I've had a second decco at the first photo, and that dogs eyes are focussed more on the gun. Maybe he's gunshy.
We would break a dog in to a shotty by waiting until it was feeding, then fire of a couple of cartridges each time - it seemed to work.
I've got an old retired working dog at my hearth who is very gunshy...or whipshy. When the fires going in winter and I put on fresh wood, it gets a bit vocal, sounding much like a whip or a .222 and the old fellow doesn't hang around - he's off like the proverbial shot out of a gun.
It's complicated. The thylacine wasn't really hunted to extinction because of farming, although the farmers did want it out of tje way. The evidence is best supporting tje idea tjat fur trading led to mass trapping in Tasmania, and it was tjese fur trappers who were also catching thylacines. And in significant numbers.
We have plenty of opossums around our place. They're one of the most common mammals around here, right up there w squirrels, chipmunks and rabbits. Unfortunately they have a habit of crossing the street at night and then freezing up in the road when they spot a car, thus lending themselves to getting hit by cars (poor critters).[/QUOTE]