So in Australia, there were also these thylacines.

澳大利亚当时也有狼。

In Australia, there were also these thylacines .

在澳大利亚，也有这些狼。

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

管俗称“老虎”，狼的格却害羞、紧张。

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

在长距离追逐中，狼可能更依赖气味而不是任何其他感觉。

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

狼和所有有动物一样，出生时很小而且没有毛。

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

狼跑得并不快，很可能是在长时间的追逐中猎物才捕捉到的。

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.

澳大利亚有狼，也有狮，我认为雷鸟巨大的体型可以让它们逃脱被捕食的命运。

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

成年狼的鼻子到尾巴的平均长度为 162.6 厘米，而雌为 153.7 厘米。

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

狼的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。

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，大多数科学家认为这是狼在那里生存的主要原因。

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

除茂密的雨林， 狼似乎占据大多数类型的地形，开阔的桉树林被认为是它的主要栖息地。

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， 狼广泛分布于新几内亚和澳大利亚大陆的大部分地区，以及塔斯马尼亚岛。

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，塔斯马尼亚东北部的一名农民射杀最后一只已知被杀死的野生狼，只留下圈养标本。

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.

虽然我们知道狼和狼都存在，但阿纳姆地的照片中还有其他动物似乎跨越想象与现实之间的界限。

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，他非常担心狼的稀缺，建议捕获一些狼并将其放在一个小岛上。

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.

大陆上最近发现的狼是一个碳年代测定的化石， 来自西澳大利亚的 Murray Cave，大约有 3,100 年的历史。

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， 保护狼的公众压力似乎很小，科学家们也没有对这一物种在随后几十年中的衰落表示太多关注。

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的野狗的竞争、栖息地的丧失以及猎物物种的消失，以及可能也影响狼的犬瘟热样疾病。

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的任何掠食澳大利亚有动物（例如塔斯马尼亚獾或现已灭绝的狼）都没有真正的关系，这一点更令人印象深刻。