New images of the extinct Tasmanian tiger have emerged thanks to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). They show the last known member of the species in a dirty cage..
With only 21 seconds, the new video the cage at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania. You can see it below.
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This clip is believed to be the last filmed clip of Benjamin, the last surviving Tasmanian tiger. The famous video that exists until now was filmed in December 1933, while the newly discovered clip dates back to 1935. That places it just a year before Benjamin's death in September 1936.
The clip was recently discovered in the NFSA vault and has been digitized in 4K and released online. In total, only a little over three minutes of video exists today. We do not have any color video. According to NFSA curator Simon Smith:
The scarcity of thylacine images makes every second of the moving image truly precious. We are very excited to make this digitized footage available to everyone online.
The Tasmanian tiger was native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last living member of its genus (Thylacinus), cIts other members lived in prehistoric times from the beginning of the Miocene.
Even though they had long been extinct on the Australian continent when European settlers arrived, wild wolves survived until the 1930s in Tasmania.
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A lost video of a recording of an extinct animal is found: the Tasmanian tiger
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