| This sequence
of thylacine footage is part of a film entitled "Animals
of the Zoo" made by EB (Encyclopaedia Britannica) films
in conjunction with the New York Zoological Society. The 10 minute
film shows a broad selection of the animals at the Bronx Zoo in New York
and has a period commentary. The film was made in 1933, some 14 years
after the zoo's last thylacine died on 13 September 1919. The thylacine
shown in the EB film however, was filmed at the London Zoo at some
point prior to 1931, when the last thylacine at the zoo died. The
animal is observed at close quarters tearing meat from a bone against the
backdrop
of its brick enclosure in the zoo's North Mammal House. Its remains
are now held in the zoology collection of the Oxford University Museum
(Source: ITSD 2005).
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