ncbi-nlm-nih-dot-gov: This is a very niche complaint, but recently there’s been another thylac
ncbi-nlm-nih-dot-gov:This is a very niche complaint, but recently there’s been another thylacine sighting photo which is very fucking obviously a fox. But cryptid hunters aren’t interested in familiarizing themselves with the basic anatomy of the animal they’re trying to prove exists, they’d rather just spread misinformation and willfully ignore correct information. Case in point: a thylacine’s metatarsals are short, very much so! as the photos in the bottom row show. Compared with the hock of a fox, the differences are obvious.A fox with mange does look weird. When we see animals without fur they can sometimes seem alien. That’s why people still go on about the montauk monster, even though it’s very obviously a racoon. That’s why that sloth with mange was described as a strange alien creature instead of a sloth with mange. So when one of these thylacine photos pops up, I immediately look at the hock. And 10 times out of 10, it’s a fucking fox. Mange and wishful thinking won’t make a fox into a thylacine. End of story. -- source link
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