Keywords: Encounter with a Tasmanian Tiger.png Although by nature a coward this savage fights with uncommon ferocity when driven to close quarters ¦ but human strength and human contrivance were against the brute which after quarter of an hour ™s desperate resistance fell dead under the blows of its protagonist administered as depicted in our engraving Illustrated Melbourne Post Held at the La Trobe Picture Collection State Library of Victoria Reproduced at http //www utas edu au/library/exhibitions/thylacine/abject html The Abject Thylacine 1867-03-27 author PD-old Thylacinus cynocephalus in art Illustrations of mammals Original upload log wikitable - - 2009-05-02 21 02 32 296 × 222 42213 bytes Cygnis insignis <nowiki> Illustration of a gentleman dismounted from his horse about to give a thylacine a damn good thrashing with his bridle The plucky tigie having any direction to escape instead chooses to get some payback and leaps at man </nowiki> |