Charles R. Knight (1874-1953), Tasmanian Wolf And Cubs

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 skull By: W. S. Berridge From: The Book of the Animal Kingdom 1910

Ahhh! You are awesome! I rarely check my social media lol and completely forgot about this (=w=)

Thank you so much for pointing it out.

I thought he was easier to see in the colored image 😭

Sorry y'all!!!!

I still haven't found a way to colorize gifs. But I don't think a lot of people know about this thylacine footage.

(will update when I pull out my info I wrote down, I just woke up =w=)

This thylacine taxidermy at QVMAG has been nicknamed “Frankentiger” because it was constructed from the parts of two different individuals. American taxidermist Frank Tose is pictured in the black and white photograph above constructing Frankentiger’s plaster form in 1937.

Photos are from Where Light Meets Dark. [x]

Illustrated Sketches of Natural History: Consisting of Descriptions and Engravings of Animals. Second Series. 1864.

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You know what? That's it.

**Tasmanians your tiger**

You’ve seen art of wolves under aurora borealis, well here’s a literal polar opposite

eyesperceive:

well this is an interesting animal… thylacine

The Taronga Zoo in Sydney had a thylacine for a time.

This was the only thylacine ever displayed at this zoo. It’s enclosure was right next to a Puma’s. The puma got a hold of the thylacine’s tail and bit it off.

I went to the natural history museum at Harvard a few weeks ago, saw a Tasmanian Tiger in person for the first time, cried about it, and then proceeded to take photos of it from every angle possible as I stared longingly at it for many many minutes.