Has anyone seen a thylacine?

The American Museum of Natural History in New York also has a mounted thylacine but I don't know if it's currently on show.

 

The Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussel have one.

 

There are specimens at the Kendal Museum (World Wildlife Gallery | Kendal Museum), the Grand Gallery of Evolution in Paris (Paris , Grand Gallery of Evolution , Jardin des Plantes - ZooChat) and the Natural History Museum at Tring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum_at_Tring).

 

Verified for Tring and Jardin des Plantes.

 

Tring's specimen is in much better condition than London's which is moth-eaten and so badly faded its almost white. I am not sure it is currently on dispay either having been removed for a while. Tring's can always be seen though.

 

I have handled the skin and skull at Oxford during my student years.

 

A little late in this convo but here's a newly discovered photo of the last captive thylacine aka Benjamin.The photo was taken on January of 1936,8 months before his death.Also if you dont already know there are 117 known Thylacine photos and 13 thylacine films(2 of them are considered lost).Lastly Im new here so sorry if this post doesnt fit here

 

Hi mate,
Don’t apologise for anything, that is a fantastic photo thank you for sharing.

Welcome to Zoochat and just be yourself. There’s quite a lot of pompous know it all’s on here and jokes for some reason aren’t well received, but most posters are really cool and I’ve learned heaps of great info from them….

All the best and happy posting

HDB

 

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has a mounted specimen, as well as skeletons and pelts.

 

There’s at least one on show at Tring

 

The American History Museum has two thylacine taxidermies,one of a male and one of a female.Both specimens came from the Bronx Zoo after they died,the male's skin belongs to the second thylacine of the zoo,and the female's skin belongs to the last thylacine of the zoo.

 

Thanks for this. Do you know if they are currently on display at the museum?

(Incidentally, Bronx Zoo's second thylacine was London Zoo's nineteenth thylacine; it was purchased from London Zoo in January 1912.)

 

I dont know if they are on display.But Bronx Zoo's second thylacine came from a litter of three joeys,you probably know them as the Woolnorth family(mum two males and a female,photo above,taken when the joeys were 8 months old in 1909),the female and one of the males were shipped in the London zoo by the Hobart Zoo in 1910,the male survived,his sister didnt manage to survive,his brother arrived a year later in 1911 and then as you said was shipped in the bronx zoo on January of 1912,where he survived for 10 months until his death on November of the same year.

 

Fascinatiing photo! Thank you for sharing. It's been fascinating learning about the thylacine, but true my a major heart breaking tragedy of this species.

 

So this is a Thylacine photo that I managed to rediscover last November,like almost a year ago.The photo has a great backgrpund,that shows the thylacine enclosure and also the tasmanian devil enclosure on the left.The photo shows the last captive thylacine,taken at the Beaumaris Zoo Queen's Domain around 1934.

 

This got me thinking and that hurts so I shall ask...

What is a group of Thylacines called, what is their collective terminology known as?
Is there one?
Even better, if there isn't one, can we invent one?......

 

A quick google search doesn't turn up any results for a collective noun. Pack seems the obvious choice because Thylacines are very doglike but surely we could come up with something a bit more creative.

 

A Flame of Thylacines

Alliteration is common in many collective nouns, so bearing in mind Thylacine is pronounced THY LUH SEEN, I say we go with flame. Flame represents how the species has burned out (become extinct); the wildfires that are common in the Australian bush; their colouration; and their markings which look like dancing flames against the night sky:


Photo credit: Totem Card: Thylacine by synnabar on DeviantArt

 

@DaLilFishie I agree, pack pops in the head early on, a thylacine was like a marsupial wolf, so it fits, but it seems a bit boring and we are dealing with marsupials here, so we are somewhat licenced to differ I feel.

@Zoofan15 That's a really good suggestion, a flame seems a very imaginative choice with reasoning too!. A flame of Thylacines, cool.

I had a think and bearing in mind we are dealing with marsupials in thylacines, I know about 'mobs' of wallabies and kangaroos, I read about a 'passel' of opossums, maybe we could do something with these words?

But I do like flame myself