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Preserved adult thylacines

The body of Wilf Batty’s thylacine, stiff with rigor mortis, tied to a fence on the man’s farm. Mr. Batty shot the animal, believed to be a male, in May of 1930, after it had reportedly been going after his chickens. It’s commonly believed that this represents the last thylacine to be killed in the wild. The photo itself, one of just five known to exist of the individual, was uncovered and shared by the great grandson of the original photographer. [ x ]

Thanks for the tag!

Here are more photos of thylacines from the Berlin zoo. There were 4 individuals in total, 3 males 1 female all from different times except for the last two who arrived at the same time (a male and the female)

unfortunately all were very stressed and showed behaviors such as pacing and chewing on the bars (seen in top photo) which wore down their teeth.

Thylacine at the Berlin Zoo By: Unknown photographer Ca. 1905

🤎 - thylacine plushies!!

some more images of the thylacine you have probably never seen before

Dobsegna: in some parts of Papua New Guinea

I've also heard moonlight wolf (hence the blog name lol) that's uncommonly used.

What’s in a name?

Just for fun, I thought I’d compile a list of names for the thylacine in various languages.

Scientific: Thylacinus cynocephalus (lit. ‘dog-headed pouched one’); formerly Didelphis cynocephala (lit. ‘dog-headed opossum’) [x]

English: Thylacine, Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, zebra wolf, marsupial wolf - Uncommon/old names: Zebra opossum, dog-faced dasyurus, native hyena, native tyger

Aboriginal: Coorinna, loarinna, laoonana, lagunta [x]

Spanish: Tilacino

German: Beutelwolf (lit. ‘bag wolf’)

French: Loup marsupial (lit. ‘marsupial wolf’)

Japanese: フクロオオカミ (fukuro-ookami, lit. ‘bag wolf’)

Swedish: Pungvarg [thanks bigfishboss]

Finnish: Pussihukka

Do you know any others?

Me and the dog, we die together!

some more images of the thylacine you have probably never seen before

I've always liked this image bc it really shows the differences between thylacine and wolf skulls

Things to note about thylacine skulls:

-thylacine eye sockets lie "deeper" into the skull

-no stop whatsoever

-8 upper incisors (rather than six), different (pre)molars

-Skull is bottle shaped when viewed from the top

Hi!!! I baguely remember a photo of a thylacine with a joey poking out of the pouch and it stuck with me a lot because it surprised me to learn their pouch opened backwards, but I can't for the live of me to find it. Do you perhaps have it around? Thank you!!

Hello! Thank you for the ask!

I have a few ideas what the photo you are looking for might be.

First is the Buckland and Springbay mother and pups photo. This was a taxidermy that was later destroyed, however portrays a joey emerging from the pouch:

Next is the family group from the Washington zoo:

(portrait done by Joseph M Gleeson of the Washington zoo family)

This was a mother and 3 Joey's that were brought into the national zoo in Washington DC. The Joey in the pouch ended up passing away in September unfortunately.

Beaumaris zoo group:

This was a mama with an extended pouch from four Joeys. In the film where the keepers are getting them into the den for the night her pouch is easily seen moving as she walks.

Lastly pictographs:

These are a collection of pictographs from around mainland Australia that depict Thylacinus Cynocephalus. Note the two middle on the left that have an extra tail, showcasing young in the pouch.

This doesn't show the pouch but it's one of my favorites.

If none of these are it and you have more ideas on what the picture may be let me know! Send as many asks as you'd like! As far as I know I'm aware of all or at least the majority of thylacine media.

I spend a lot of time in archives *sob*