Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/01

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Subject: Tassie Tiger
From: firkin@netconnect.com.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 22:51:15 +1100
 
> Favourite animal; Thilocene ("Tasmanian tiger", extinct carnivorous
> marsupial)

Don't want to be too picky, but being "part" Tasmanian - The Tassie Tiger
is a Thylacine [Thylacinus cynocephalus] from a Greek derivation I cannot
type meaning pouch because of its Marsupial lineage.

Alastair Firkin,

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html