1.So in Australia, there were also these thylacines.

澳大利亚当时也有袋狼。

2.In Australia, there were also these thylacines .

在澳大利亚，也有这些袋狼。机翻

3.Despite the common name 'tiger', the thylacine had a shy, nervous temperament.

尽管俗称“老虎”，袋狼性格却害羞、紧张。机翻

4.During long-distance chases, thylacines were likely to have relied more on scent than any other sense.

在长距离追逐中，袋狼可能更依赖气味而不是任何其他感觉。机翻

5.The thylacine, like all marsupials, was tiny and hairless when born.

袋狼和所有有袋动物一样，出生时很小而且没有毛。机翻

6.The thylacine was not a fast runner and probably caught its prey by exhausting it during a long pursuit.

袋狼跑得并不快，很可能是在长时间追逐中耗尽了猎物才捉到。机翻

7.In Australia, there were these thylacines. There are these marsupial lions, and I think a big body size would have enabled them to escape predation.

澳大利亚有袋狼，也有袋狮，我认为雷鸟巨大体型可以让它们逃食命运。

8.The thylacine's average nose to tail length for adult males was 162.6 cm, compared to 153.7 cm for females.

成年雄性袋狼鼻子到尾巴平均长度为 162.6 厘米，而雌性为 153.7 厘米。机翻

9.The thylacine had an extended breeding season from winter to spring, with indications that some breeding took place throughout the year.

袋狼繁殖季节从冬季延长到春季，有迹象表明全年都有一些繁殖活动。机翻

10.Dingoes never reached Tasmania, and most scientists see this as the main reason for the thylacine's survival there.

野狗从未到达过塔斯马尼亚，大多数家认为这是袋狼在那里生存主要原因。机翻

11.The thylacine appeared to occupy most types of terrain except dense rainforest, with open eucalyptus forest thought to be its prime habitat.

除了茂密雨林， 袋狼似乎占据了大多数类型地形，开阔桉树林认为是它主要栖息地。机翻

12.Approximately 4,000 years ago, the thylacine was widespread throughout New Guinea and most of mainland Australia, as well as the island of Tasmania.

大约 4,000 年前， 袋狼广泛分布于新几内亚和澳大利亚大陆大部分地区，以及塔斯马尼亚岛。机翻

13.The last known wild thylacine to be killed was shot by a farmer in the north-east of Tasmania in 1930, leaving just captive specimens.

1930 年，塔斯马尼亚东北部一名农民射杀了最后一只已知杀死野生袋狼，只留下圈养标本。机翻

14.And while we know thylacines and Thylacoleo both existed, there are other animals in the Arnhem Land pictures that seem to straddle the line between imagination and reality.

虽然我们知道袋狼和袋狼都存在，但阿纳姆地照片中还有其他动物似乎跨越了想象与现实之间界限。机翻

15.In 1914, he was sufficiently concerned about the scarcity of the thylacine to suggest that some should be captured and placed on a small island.

1914 年，他非常担心袋狼稀缺，建议获一些袋狼并将其放在一个小岛上。机翻

16.The most recent, well-dated occurrence of a thylacine on the mainland is a carbon-dated fossil from Murray Cave in Western Australia, which is around 3,100 years old.

大陆上最近发现袋狼是一个碳年代测定化石， 来自西澳大利亚 Murray Cave，大约有 3,100 年历史。机翻

17.However, there seems to have been little public pressure to preserve the thylacine, nor was much concern expressed by scientists at the decline of this species in the decades that followed.

然而， 保护袋狼公众压力似乎很小，家们也没有对这一物种在随后几十年中衰落表示太多关注。机翻

18.These include competition with wild dogs introduced by European settlers, loss of habitat along with the disappearance of prey species, and a distemper-like disease which may also have affected the thylacine.

其中包括与欧洲定居者引入野狗竞争、栖息地丧失以及猎物物种消失，以及可能也影响了袋狼犬瘟热样疾病。机翻

19.And this is even more impressive considering that we now also know that it's not really related to any of the predatory Australian marsupials that you might've heard of, like the Tasmanian devil or the now-extinct thylacine.

考虑到我们现在也知道它与您可能听说过任何掠食性澳大利亚有袋动物（例如塔斯马尼亚袋獾或现已灭绝袋狼）都没有真正关系，这一点更令人印象深刻。机翻