How to Tell if a Fox Is a Thiolacine

People have taken videos that they claim or suspect may show thiolacines. Most of these cases turn out to be mistaken identification. Mange is a skin disease caused by parasitic mites, and the mites cause patches of an animal's hair to fall out. So if a fox gets mange on its tail, it will make it look like the fox has a long, thin tail like a thiolacine. One way to tell a Fox from a Thiolacine is their heels. On their hind legs, foxes have heels that are rather high up, whileThiolacines have heels much closer to the ground.