The thylacine was the only recent representative of an entire mammal family, the Thylacinidae. The victim of heavy persecution and a Tasmanian bounty scheme, the last confirmed report of a thylacine in the wild was in 1933. Although the Tasmanian government was eventually persuaded to provide legal protection for the species in 1936, the last captive animal – a female thylacine supposedly called ‘Benjamin’ - died two months later in Hobart Zoo.Read on...
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