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the sixth section of the Thylacine Museum. Presented here are six
additional topics that I felt should be discussed.
The first part of this section is entitled
"Persecution". A gallery of tragic historical photographs
which depict thylacines that met very sad ends at the hands of hunters
and farmers, it is perhaps the most depressing feature shown on this website,
yet it is also among the most important.
"Benjamin - The Last Captive Thylacine"
tells the story of the very last known captive thylacine (which has popularly
come to be known as "Benjamin"), who died at the Hobart Zoo on 7 September
1936. I have created a Thylacine Memorial Book in this individual's
honor, which is accessible from page two of the presentation.
"David Fleay's 1945-46 Tasmanian Tiger
Expedition" is a memoir contributed by Rosemary Fleay-Thomson, daughter
of Australian zoologist Dr. David Fleay. It details the events of
the expedition that her family made to Tasmania's rugged wilderness in
1945-46. The primary goal of the expedition was to secure a pair
of thylacines so that their biology could be studied, and an attempt made
to breed them in captivity at the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria.
"The Thylacine in Natural History Illustration"
presents twelve classic natural history illustrations of the thylacine,
along with historical information about each. Shown here are the
beautiful works of wildlife artists such as Henry C. Richter, Joseph Wolf
and Helmut Diller.
In 1999, an ambitious project was begun
to extract genetic material from thylacine tissues that had been preserved
in alcohol for nearly a century and a half, in the hope that it could eventually
be used to produce cloned thylacines. "The Thylacine Cloning Project"
discusses the process by which this goal might be achieved.
Lastly, "Thylacine Exhibits to Visit"
is a compilation of institutions which have thylacine-related
exhibits that are on display to the general public.
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