Colourised Footage Of Benjamin, The Last Know Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine).

OH GAWD *dying sounds* ARCHIVE DID... DID YOU POST NON THYLACINE STUFF ON YOUR THYLACINE ARCHIVE ACCOUNT??!! OH OH GOD

The bottom is gonna be a button :D

some more thylacines from the london zoo

Newly rediscovered footage of the last captive thylacine (“Benjamin”) as a juvenile at the Beaumaris Zoo has just been released!

The film is 7 seconds long and was taken by Reverend Harold Doyle in 1930 using a hand-cranked camera and nitrate film.

Though it is not as clear as other films, it is still valuable because it gives us more information about the timeline of the last captive and possibly his origin, which have long been disputed.

A looping version of the film can be seen here: https://www.ntnews.com.au/news/newly-discovered-footage-of-the-thylacine/video/9739dac68568a2d9d758c857a1417ae1

Thylacine energy

TONIGHT. WE’RE DRINKING FROM THE POND.

This is a portrait of them done at the national zoo in Washington DC by Gleeson.

She is thought to be depicted as the Joey in the pouch as at the size and predicted age the mother would not allow the Joey into the pouch so it was suspected the mother allowed her because she was sick. Poor baby. She passed in September when the family arrived in July.

Juvenile female thylacine skin and skull from the Smithsonian NMNH (USNM 115365). [x]

This individual was one of three pouch young that arrived along with an adult female; sadly, she was the only one of the joeys that did not survive to adulthood. She died in 1902 shortly after her family’s arrival at the National Zoo.

Size comparison of this skin to a full-grown adult (actually her male littermate) below from @thebrainscoop​ [x]. So smol :’(

Listen....idk what it is about the Wilfred Batty photos but they always make me jump when they finish and I am left with a thylacine in deep rigor mortis and really good colors.

So...Woolworth female and her joeys and Wilf Batty thylacine photos.

Dobsegna: in some parts of Papua New Guinea

I've also heard moonlight wolf (hence the blog name lol) that's uncommonly used.

What’s in a name?

Just for fun, I thought I’d compile a list of names for the thylacine in various languages.

Scientific: Thylacinus cynocephalus (lit. ‘dog-headed pouched one’); formerly Didelphis cynocephala (lit. ‘dog-headed opossum’) [x]

English: Thylacine, Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, zebra wolf, marsupial wolf - Uncommon/old names: Zebra opossum, dog-faced dasyurus, native hyena, native tyger

Aboriginal: Coorinna, loarinna, laoonana, lagunta [x]

Spanish: Tilacino

German: Beutelwolf (lit. ‘bag wolf’)

French: Loup marsupial (lit. ‘marsupial wolf’)

Japanese: フクロオオカミ (fukuro-ookami, lit. ‘bag wolf’)

Swedish: Pungvarg [thanks bigfishboss]

Finnish: Pussihukka

Do you know any others?

The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is not a tiger. Nor is it a dog, a fox, or a wolf. It is an extinct carnivorous marsupial…

They are friends

(idk when yellow footed rock wallabies first broke off into an individual species, but perhaps Thylacinus Cynocephalus was on the mainland then)

Also I found the resource I've been looking for to make that art project of thylacinid family tree.

LOST THYLACINE FOOTAGE REDISCOVERED

Originally shot by Dr. Randle Stewart, an Australian psychiatrist, whilst on honeymoon in Tasmania, these 18 seconds of combined footage show the last captive thylacine in the world.

Commonly referred to as “Benjamin”, the individual lived at the now-abandoned Beaumaris Zoo from the early 1930s to his death in September of 1936, incidentally the same year thylacines were granted official protection by the Australian government.

The footage, shot in 1931, had been considered lost since the late 1970s.