The last known wild Thylacine to be killed was shot in 1930, by farmer Wilf Batty in Mawbanna, in the North East of the state. The animal (believed to be a male) had been seen round Batty's hen houses for several weeks.
The last Thylacine, later referred to as Benjamin (although its gender has never been confirmed) was captured in 1933 and sent to the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years. It died on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect — locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: baking heat in the day and freezing temperatures at night. One of the few existing films of a Thylacine, 62 seconds of black and white footage of Benjamin pacing backwards and forwards in its enclosure, was taken in 1933.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Amazing footage of the extinct Thylacine
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade, history and pictures of these animals can be found at:
http://www.messybeast.com/extinct/thylacine.htm
Mary Ann
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