..her obsession with it, got it killed. It should have been darted and moved to an area where its own kind lives, rather than becoming a spectacle.

Melanesia, including Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia, had giant marsupials, too.

RIP TAKAYA ❤ I’m so sorry you couldn’t find your soul mate in time because humans ruined it for you. Someone hunted him down and killed him.. a man of course. I know Cheryl feels extreme guilt for exposing his area but it’s not her fault! And I know Takaya must’ve felt company even for a little while that you were with him 💔💔💔🙏 RIP TAKAYA I HOPE YOUR NEXT LIFE YOU FIND YOUR TRUE LOVE. Just like me…….

And guess what the humans did? Introduced an outcompeting mammal into the Australian habitats.

Although its been 4 yrs before i hear about your story. Takaya run wild wherever u are

What a loss 💔

On March 24, 2020, Takaya was shot and killed by a trophy hunter. This wolf inspired the world, and a hunter wanted him as a dead trophy. There is something missing in that person's soul. And any soul that gets pleasure from killing and a thrill from taking a life.

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Imagine scientists would discover a koala that’s about as big as a rhino, they would call it “Meganarctos gigantuim”, and discover it is too big for trees and has weak climbing muscles, leading to the common name “giant ground koala”. They would discover it could eat carrion to supplement its diet, and could stand on its hind legs to defend itself from predators like thylacoleo, quinkana and megalania. It could walk on its knuckles like ground sloths and chalicotheres. The meganarctos would be part of a different family of marsupials, called “meganarctidae” or “ground koalas”.

Be at peace, Takaya. Your spirit lives on through us who remember you. ❤😢

Widerliche Selbstarstellung hässlicher Menschen durch Missbrauch der Schönheit der Wildnes.

Okay... literally already knew all of this but go off

Thylocene leo was more closely related to the Thylocene dog, numbats and the Tasmanian Devil than wombats and kangaroos as you said. You also didn’t mention that marsupials in Australia reached their highest level of diversity 1 million years ago, well before Aboriginal colonization, though there is a consensus that they largely wiped the megafauna who were left. Good job, enjoyed your video immensely 😊

I dnt fink humans extinct the mega fauna really i think they were design its when Antarctica its also n its just coincidence n convergence humans turned up n helped it along

Convergence I thought kangaroo hands look like a rat which came first but red kangaroo were to become a being but the aboriginals turned up n ruined it but i do not think id eat a red kangaroo anymore than a koala also beings nrly so but thers nothing like a platypus anywhere else n this niche isnt filled you wouldn't count either an otter or beaver anything like that n you say its mammalian

Always thought it was weird there was no natural predator for the aboriginals in Australia..... I guess they killed them all off lol "They found Sporormiella spores, which grow in herbivore dung, virtually disappeared around 41,000 years ago, a time when no known climate transformation was taking place. At the same time, the incidence of fire increased, as shown by a steep rise in charcoal fragments. It appears that humans, who arrived in Australia around this time, hunted the megafauna to extinction".

Just thought I would chime in and state, around 20 years ago I personally came very close to a large grey roo down around the Vic NSW border and it stood at least 2 metres tall, also on another location I have seen roos close to the same hight.

Australia still has red kangaroos over 7ft tall, and evidence of humans in southern Australia dating back 130,000 years.

Neither climate change nor human predation wiped out the Ice Age megafauna. Surface gravity was increasing during the interglacial period from a lower value which devastated the megafauna. I published a book in 2016 briefly (in 59 pages) describing this theory: Ice Age Extinctions, A New Theory This theory comes under the umbrella of ‘The Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction.’ Some of the evidence supporting the theory follows: 1. Marsupial megafauna in both Australia and S. America were devastated to a greater degree than placental fauna. 2. Mammoths that migrated to islands and underwent dwarfism survived well into the Holocene if humans were not present. I believe they underwent dwarfism because of increasing surface gravity in those regions and not due to insular island dwarfism due to reduced vegetation resources. I believe this transformation happened several times during the glacial to interglacial periods. As explained in the theory, regions with lower surface gravity experienced an increase (to near current value) in surface gravity during these intervals. 3. The theory posits that when large surface mass moves to high latitude, surface gravity will lower in a specific longitudinal region due to the Earth’s core elements moving off-center. This off-centering is due to the Conservation of Angular Momentum. During the Mesozoic era the surface mass was Pangea, which moved to higher latitude. During the Ice Age the surface mass was ocean water moving to the high northern and southern latitude. 4. The observation that the Ice Age extinctions in different places seems to coincide with the arrival of humans might be explained without invoking human predation. If the theory is correct, surface gravity was increasing (to near current value) in the extinction regions. The previous lower surface gravity in those regions may have posed an invisible barrier to humans that had evolved in a region with near normal surface gravity. 5. It has been pointed out that the survivors of the end-Pleistocene extinction were “late arrivals to N. America.” The reason for this could be that they evolved in a region with a near current level of surface gravity before entering N. America (via Beringia) and were more fit to experience the increase in surface gravity. If this is true then the belief that the surviving megafauna were not naive to human predation compared to the extinct megafauna has to be questioned. 6. The diminution in size of bison, horses as well as other megafauna in the late Pleistocene may be explained by the increasing surface gravity at that time. 7. The theory posits that the longitudinal region with the lowest surface gravity was not fixed. It was dependent upon the location (both latitude and longitude) of the most massive polar ice accumulation. And, as the ice mass distribution changed so did the region with the lowest surface gravity. This might explain why megafauna developed and went extinct in Australia much earlier than it did in North and South America and also why the Neanderthals became extinct at the same time as the Australian megafauna.

procoptodon went extinct 15,000 years ago

What the H happens to feet and pounds that gram and meter S is for the BS

Well that’s depressing

He died??? When and how do you know?

Cheryl would not recording his howling and playing it bring other wolves to him?

I really dont like those white screen fragments

I just watched a decomuntary about Takaya. I was amazed how he managed to survive alone. I decided to know more about the wolf nd I wish i had not. I was shocked to know that Takaya was killed by a hunter ( i Don't give a fuck if he thought wolf season is open or not) his deed is absolutely unforgiven. R.I.P TAKAYA 😢💔 may u found ur pack that will never leave u alone.

When animals get so huge, you know they're trying to outgrow some terrifying predator.

This makes me want to make a worlbuilding/specualtive evolution project anout marsupials called wakipi

Sapiens, the most destructive species to ever live on Earth.

Gorgeous Film. 💝

Who is here after read Sapiens?

Humans didn't arrive in Australia 50,000 thousand years ago what a dumb mf my people have been here way longer, we've been in Australia for 100.000 years plus we're the oldest culture on this planet don't ever forget that boy

This was not exciting enough

I have kangaroo phobia!!!!! They terrify me!!! They're ugly, like big rats!!!! Scary!!!!! !😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖!creepy

Rest in peace, lone-wolf Takaya

Dude, everywhere we've been, animals have been extinct and ecosystems have been destroyed. We are a damn walking disaster....what a HUGE shame.....

Great story--beautiful, sad, and inspiring--all wrapped into one. RIP Takaya-you were loved.

i realy hope they bring back this type of lion

A sad end for such a lonely wolf. First their habitat is overrun by Europeans, then are hunted down, dwindling they struggle to find refuge in an urbanized world, then one lone wolf find safety on a lonely island away from hunters but also any potential mates. He's left with a clearly wealthy lady who thinks the wolf sees her as family and lets him suffer for years on her private little sanctuary. He then finally gets relocated and killed by a hunter. These people are not only irresponsible as stewards of an informal wolf sancuary, they inflate themselves as wolf-kin rather than see the wolf's desperation.

Watched this programme last night and I was blown away by his survival instincts and ways, how he skinned those seals wow. I noticed his top left fang was missing bless him. His howls set me off in tears reminding me of the dogs that were my best friends they howled when I left for work. The woppertie pack I've seen on Yellowstone wolf documentaries beautiful! Magical! Fantastic. Loved the bit at the end, how he began to trust you. God bless you and Takaya. ☘👍

A change in size yes Not shape

Half of australia is empty till.today And is wire they have those animals By the way humans didnt grow hear in cold places Maybe you have to rethink darwin

I know elephants getting smaller But to change shape

Humans have been in Australia for at least 70k years and thought to be upward of 80k years. Recent archeological finds confirmed it this year I believe. Just like the Clovis first model had to be thrown out due to the human steps found in white sands that date to 25kya.

Perhaps relocation would have been an idea? Prayers as folks constantly around make them not fearful thus his demise.

Excellent...glad it didn't shy away from stating that ancient peoples aren't blameless when it comes to species loss.

May your spirit travel on lone one. 🌅

Oh wow. I am reading Sapiens right now and stumbled here and this video is amazing!

Yeah I never really understood its bite force some say it's almost as strong as lion some say it has a stronger bite force than a hippo i just dont understand it

It’s funny they call it a “marsupial lion”. Like so many of these creatures they are just their own incomparable kind of animal gone extinct.