re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I read that one of the reasons that the Thylacine was eradicated was its tendency to rear up and walk on its hind legs, which scared the piss out of the early settlers in Tasmania, they saw it as the Devil incarnate.
Also, it’s not cute (koalas!! kangaroos!!) or majestic (puma). It’s just freaky-looking. Sort of ugly, in fact.