Hobart Zoo
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Nov 1, 2026
TimHOST
Tasmanian devil isn't an actual devil either, you know
TomHOST
that? The last known thylacine died September 7, 1936 at Hobart Zoo.
TomHOST
But people have claimed to have seen it.
TomHOST
A 2023 study evaluated 1,237 records.
Andrew MuellerHOST
It was sort of a striped marsupial wolf.
Andrew MuellerHOST
The last one died in Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart in 1936.
Andrew MuellerHOST
Those sightings are occasionally reported by drunks who've spotted foxes.
Andrew MuellerHOST
The head auctioned earlier this year was actually listed as a fox with an estimate of £30.
Billy GordonPANELIST
Yeah.
Billy GordonPANELIST
And there was one, the last one died in Hobart Zoo in New Zealand in 1940 or something like that.
Billy GordonPANELIST
And they've actually got a...
Billy GordonPANELIST
What do you call it when they stuff animals? Jesus Christ.
Billy GordonPANELIST
Yeah, and the Aussies and the Kiwis are always, there's news flashes about it, like Tasmanian tiger scene, but I don't know.
Billy GordonPANELIST
I really hope it is about, because it's really sad.
Billy GordonPANELIST
They said, because the last one was in Hobart Zoo on its own for a long time, and they say it died of a broken heart.
Billy GordonPANELIST
Oh, Lord.
Michael MossHOST
Sorry, in June 1923.
Michael MossHOST
They were eventually sold to the Hobart Zoo in early February 1924, but prior to their sale, Mullins displayed the family group as sixpenny attractions at various country fairs around Tasmania.
Michael MossHOST
There are two known images of these particular animals.
Michael MossHOST
Both photographs show the thylacines in a straw-strewn barred cart at a country fair near Bicheno, B-I-C-H-E-N-O, on the east coast of Tasmania.
David Ian HoweGUEST
I think about the, the thylacine video.
David Ian HoweGUEST
I think it's from the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, where you can see it just pacing back and forth in a concrete slab with metal bars around it.
David Ian HoweGUEST
It's just zoochosis.
David Ian HoweGUEST
Um, the poor thing just was like lonely and depressed, and it was the last of its species.