Tasmaania Tiiger
Australia, it survived into the 1930s on the
island state of Tasmania.
• The Van Diemen's Land Company introduced
bounties on the thylacine from as early as
1830, and between 1888 and 1909 the
Tasmanian government paid £1 per head.
• The animal had become extremely rare in the
wild by the late 1920s.
• The last known thylacine to be killed in the wild
was shot in 1930 by Wilf Batty, a farmer from
Mawbanna.
Benjamin
• The last captive thylacine, later
referred to as "Benjamin", was
trapped in the Florentine Valley
by Elias Churchill in 1933, and
sent to the Hobart Zoo where it
lived for three years.
• Recent detailed examination of
a single frame from the historic
motion film footage taken by
David Fleay in 1933, has
confirmed that the thylacine
was male.
• The thylacine died on 7
September 1936.
Unconfirmed
sightings
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