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Thylacine Display - Ballarat Wildlife Park May 2013

Ballarat Wildlife Park, May 2013. Thylacine Display

Thylacine Display - Ballarat Wildlife Park May 2013
zooboy28, 3 Jun 2013
    • zooboy28
      Ballarat Wildlife Park, May 2013.

      Thylacine Display
    • DavidBrown
      It is cool that a zoo has a display like this. Is that a real mounted thylacine?
    • zooboy28
      I honestly don't know if its real or not, I couldn't tell! I'm thinking its not, given its location and the fact that it's in pretty good condition - not very faded or anything.

      It is immediately adjacent to one of the Tasmanian Devil enclosures, which gives a great opportunity to compare two very different large carnivorous marsupials.
    • oldrover
      It's a model, but it's lovely to see something on display like that. Well done to whoever put it there.
    • Chlidonias
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    • Pertinax
      The head and posture appear very lifelike, I have seen photos of live ones in the Hobart zoo(s) which looked like that- maybe they copied a photo.

      The colour isn't right though- perhaps they copied that from a (faded) museum specimen? In life they were grey with blackish (or very dark brown) stripes. Museum skins kept out of the light show this clearly.
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