Summary: <p>The Thylacine (commonly called the Tasmanian tiger) and the quagga, a type of zebra, have two important things in common. They’re both partially striped and they’re both extinct. Sort of. The first episode of Strange Animals Podcast discusses what sort of animals both were, and why we can’t say with 100% certainty that they’re extinct. Even though we know the date the last individuals died.</p> <p>The Thylacine:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-43" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/thylacine-300x188.png" alt="" width="300" height="188"></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_M-SskpGi4">Watch the 2008 thylacine (maybe) video for yourself.</a></p> <p>The Quagga, old and new:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-44" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/quagga.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="154"> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-45" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/newquaggas.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="142"></p>
