[Animals] Video footage of the last Tasmanian tiger that became extinct 85 years ago

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Tuesday showed a color video of the last Tasmanian tiger in captivity, the 85th anniversary of its death. The film Benjamin, a Tasmanian tiger living in the Beaumaris Zoo in Hubert on the Australian island of Tasmania, was filmed by naturalist David Fly in December 1933, then also photographed by Fly in 1935.

 

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has teamed up with French colorist Samuel Francois-Steininger to recreate the dramatic images of Benjamin. Through the film, the Tasmanian tiger appears in the garden's pocket, walking and lying in the sun, yawning, rubbing its body and smelling the air, according to Euronews.

 

The original 35mm film was in good condition, but it took François-Steininger two hundred hours to work on coloring it. Benjamin died on September 7, 1936. The Tasmanian tiger was the largest known carnivorous marsupial in the world, but was officially extinct in the 1930s.

 

Tasmanian tigers; Also known as thylacine, are striped dog-like marsupials that became extinct in Australia and the last thylacine was killed between 1910 and 1920, while the last known thylacine died in 1936 in the zoo located in the city of Hobart in Australia.

 Since then there has been no further evidence that these tigers are still in the wild, and the species was officially declared extinct in 1986, according to the Tasmanian Wildlife Department's website.

From time to time there are rumors about the sighting of thylacine tigers. Recently, two people in northern Queensland in Australia provided reasonable and detailed reports about animals that look very similar to the thylacine. Accordingly, researchers at James Cook University announced on March 24 the start of a new survey; To see if those animals are still alive.