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This is a 3D mesh animal with a land impact of 1.
With this purchase you will receive:
1) two properly scaled thlacines - male and female (each is copy&mod)
2) Scripted versions of these - scripted to give 2 natural sounding vocalizations.
3) 5 land impact museum specimen in a glass case.
4) An 11 land impact realistic recreation of the original Beaumaris Zoo thylacine enclosure that housed the last living Thylacine. The enclousre features a low lag scripted door and a matural looking chicken wire texture. The enclosure has a footprint of 7.5x11.5 meters.
The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest marsupial carnivore to survive to modern times. It was a nocturnal predator that hunted wallabies and other smaller marsupials.
Liek all marsupials, it gave birth to tiny defenceless young, which it then carried in a pouch for several months.
Unlike most of Australian megafauna it survived the arrival of aboriginal australains some 40 000 years ago, but seems to have disappeared from mainland australia some 4000 years ago. The reason for that extinction is uncertain, although the introduction of the dog to the continent probably played a key role.
The Thylacine, like it smaller cousin the tasmanian devil, managed to survive on Tasmania. By the late 19th century it was targeted as a sheep killer and a pest. A government bounty was put for each dead thylacine. As a result, the animal was hunted to extinction, the last known Thylacine died in Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Ironically, the state of Tasmania that ordered its extermination, still features the thylacine in its coat of arms.
This product aims to pay homage to this magnificent australian animal and to give it a second life within second life.
NOTE ON VOCALIZATIONS:
- No known recordings of Thylacine soudns survives. However period sources describe these as "yipping", "yapping", "yip-barks" or "coughing barks". There is only one other animal whose calls are described by these words in english - the fox. My best guess is that Thylacine sounds must have strongly reminded the english settlers of the fox calls they knew from home. As a result, the sounds i used here are edited fox "bark and yip" calls. I edited them so they'd sound more gluttural and metallic - more similar to the calls of quolls or tasmanian devils.
Enjoy!
Nice
Glad to have it.
