Wednesday, March 16th at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom Nevermore: The Thylacine
Join Gerri Griswold, of White Memorial Conservation Center, for the third lecture of her four part lecture series on extinct animals.
Was it a tiger? A dog? A threat? A monster? It was none of the aforementioned. Learn all about the demise of the Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Wolf or Tasmanian Tiger, a carnivorous marsupial once indigenous to Australia and Tasmania. Today the animal is a legend, romanticized by many. But when it roamed the forests it was hunted to extinction by ignorant European settlers who saw it as a threat to their livestock. The last Thylacine, Benjamin, died in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania on September 6, 1936.
