What is the last Tasmanian tiger name?

Answer 1

It is said that the last Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, which died in the Hobart Zoo in 1936, died partially from starvation and partially from exposure. Not enough was known about the needs of this native marsupial, and it was, quite simply, not cared for properly.

Answer 2

As the last specimen probably died unobserved in the wild sometime during the latter part of the Twentieth Century it's not possible to say.

The last captive specimen, erroneously reported as being a female called Benjamin but actually an unnamed male, died on the concrete floor of its enclosure on the seventh of September 1936 in Hobart. Most likely as a result of exposure after is keepers failed to let it in to its overnight quarters.

The last known wild specimen to be killed was shot through the shoulder and died twenty minutes later on the sixth of may 1930. This too is recorded in two photographs.

Answer 3

No single person killed the last Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger). It is said that the last Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, which died in a Hobart zoo in 1936, died partially from starvation and partially from exposure. Not enough was known about the needs of this native marsupial, and it was, quite simply, not cared for properly.

The last known wild Thylacine was allegedly shot in 1930 by a farmer named Wilf Batty.

Answer 4

There is a popular myth, one of many regarding this species, that the last captive specimen was known as Benjamin.

This stems from a 1968 newspaper interview with a man named Frank Darby who claimed to have worked with the animal during the thirties at the Hobart Zoo. However during a subsequent interview with Alison Reid, daughter of the zoo's then curator, it emerged that Mr Darby had never been employed at the zoo and that the animal had never been named.

A further myth about this individual was that it was a female, whereas the diary of David Fleay, the only qualified biologist to examine the animal as well as the person who shot the famous footage, clearly recorded it as being male.

Answer 5

benjamin

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The suggestion that the last captive specimen was named Benjamin first appeared in a 1968 newspaper interview with a man named Frank Darby, who claimed to have been employed at the Hobart Zoo where the animal was housed until its death in 1936.

However during a subsequent interview with Alison Reid, the daughter of the zoo's then curator, it emerged that Mr Darby had never been employed at the zoo, and further that the animal had never been named.

Though this myth is widespread it is not repeated in any reputable web resource. A further misconception commonly reported is that the animal was a female. In fact it was clearly documented by David Fleay, the only qualified zoologist to ever examine the animal, as being a male. During one his visits to the animal, Fleay shot the longest and most famous of the seven known motion picture sequences of the thylacine.