Abstract
R. Paddle. 2002. The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 273 pp. ISBN 521-78219-8, ISBN 0-521-53154-3, price (paper), $21.00. In recent years, the extinction and hypothetical survival of the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ) has attracted considerable attention. If anything, interest will only increase with the progress of the Australian Museum's project to clone a thylacine. Surprisingly few books about thylacines are available. The 1st major effort was Eric Guiler (1985) Thylacine: The Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger . Another book, Colonel Bailey (2001) Tiger Tales: Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger was, in contrast, a collection of firsthand thylacine anecdotes. The Last Tasmanian Tiger is based on Robert Paddle's (1997) Ph.D. dissertation (University of Melbourne). His purpose is 2-fold: to inform, and to convince. Paddle presents a number of his own theories, arguments, and analyses of …
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