| This was Benjamin. He (or she) was the last Thylacine captured and put in a zoo. He was captured with his mother and his two sisters by a man in 1924. Benjamin's mom died soon after capture and his sisters died in the early 1930's. Ben died at the age of 12 in the Hobart Zoo September 7th, 1936. Aftter he/she died the Tazmanian Tiger was officially declared an extinct species. But Thylacines might not be extinct after all. Believe it or not there have been over a thousand sightings of Thylacines all over The Australian continent. Who knows...Maybe Ben wasn't the last after all! |
