In this episode, I cover the thylacine- Tasmania's most famous extinct animal. Were these animals killed off completely by humans, or were there other factors at play? Thylacines were the dominant carnivore within Tasmania until European settlers arrived and began to kill them to protect their sheep. But, were these animals killed off completely by humans, or were there other factors at play? 

Sources: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.12029

https://web.archive.org/web/20090205080536/http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/swroe/Lost.pdf

http://rw.thylacine.psu.edu/papers/johnson2003.pdf

https://parks.tas.gov.au/discovery-and-learning/wildlife/tasmanian-tiger

https://publications.rzsnsw.org.au/doi/pdf/10.7882/AZ.2012.008

http://prism.scholarslab.org/prisms/25099fc8-a7f0-11e3-bbb5-e2ab703590ac/visualize?locale=en

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/return-of-the-living-thylacine

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034877

Dr. Michael Archer's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_archer_how_we_ll_resurrect_the_gastric_brooding_frog_the_tasmanian_tiger?language=en

Allison Reid's Interview from 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGRCnZ4K10&feature=emb_logo