| Made at the
beginning of 1928, this is the oldest known of the Hobart Zoo films taken
at the Domain site (the site to which the Beaumaris Zoo was relocated
by the Hobart City Council and renamed Hobart Zoo after the death of founder
Mary G. Roberts in 1921). With their keeper visible in the background,
this film is the only one which shows a group of three thylacines interacting.
The adult female (with visibly distended pouch) arrived at the zoo with
two semi-independent young. Sadly, she and both of her cubs died
of an unspecified disease shortly after this film was made. Incidentally,
the two juveniles shown in the film are not directly related to
her. The sequence concludes with the animals being ushered into their
night pen.
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