I based it off photos of Tasmania. The Thylacine ( also known as a Tasmanian Tiger) is a pet I really wanted on Powerpets, to help raise awareness to recent animal extinctions, especially since so much of their extinction was caused by human hunting (a bounty put on the heads of Thylacines caused over 2,100 to be killed for sure, with more possible, in just under 30 years. This means a Thylacine was killed just about every 5 days). The species was officially made a protected species just 59 days before the last known Thylacine died.
We all known of the extinction of the Dinosaurs, but it's hard to make a real connection with beasts that we have drawings and bones from, but little else. They lived so long ago it is hard to truly imagine having possibly saved them. I believed the Thylacines would help younger players grasp the idea of extinction being preventable, given that they went extinct recently enough to have photographs of them, and it doesn't hurt they were awful cute.
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