Resolving when (and where) the Thylacine went extinct

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 877; p. 162878
• Main Authors: Brook, Barry W., Sleightholme, Stephen R., Campbell, Cameron R., Jarić, Ivan, Buettel, Jessie C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.06.2023; Elsevier
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Wild; Australia; data collection; environment; Environmental Sciences; extinction; Extinction inference; Extinction, Biological; Extirpation pattern; Marsupialia; pigeons; prioritization; Range dynamics; Raphus cucullatus; refuge habitats; species; Tasmania; Tasmanian Tiger; Thylacinus cynocephalus; uncertainty; Uncertainty modelling; wilderness; wildlife; Australia; Tasmania; Range dynamics; Tasmanian Tiger; Extinction inference; Uncertainty modelling; Extirpation pattern; Tasmanian Tiger, Uncertainty modelling, Extinction inference, Extirpation pattern, Range dynamics

Like the Dodo and Passenger Pigeon before it, the predatory marsupial Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), or ‘Tasmanian tiger’, has become an iconic symbol of anthropogenic extinction. The last captive animal died in 1936, but even today reports of the Thylacine's possible ongoing survival in...