The March find and this latest find in Canberra add to the five previously known films of thylacines from Beaumaris Zoo and two films from London Zoo. “The thylacine was not well studied when it was alive, so these films are all we have now,” he said. They are currently trying to track down another lost film, referred to in a 1978 article in The Mercury newspaper, said to show a thylacine cub. Mr Holmes and his colleagues are part of a group called Tasmanian Tiger Archives on Facebook, which helps researchers from around Australia share information and leads. “So what we can learn from this really short clip of film is that thylacines actually seemed to be quite timid*, in contrast to their reputation for being ferocious sheep-killers.” “You can clearly see them trying to rile* it up from outside the enclosure but it actually seems quite timid, even with the cameraman inside the enclosure,” thylacine researcher Branden Holmes said. In it, the captive* Tasmanian tiger is seen pacing inside its enclosure at the zoo, apparently very placid* despite noisy humans trying to provoke* it. The old tourism film, long buried in the vaults* of the National Film and Sound Archives in Canberra, ACT, contains roughly 20 seconds of rare film of a live thylacine in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in Tasmania. The film was taken in 1935, two years later than any other known record.Īnd it could cast doubt on the Tassie tiger’s reputation as a fierce, aggressive animal. Tasmanian tiger researchers have discovered what is thought to be the last film of a thylacine.
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