Discovered from private collection….
I don’t know why we are all so attached to these creatures, but I do know for me that it’s bad enough man likely caused their extinction, but to also have their last photos and end come from a zoo looking like this zoo does just turns my stomach. Maybe, just maybe if we left them alone in the wild they would still be around. But now the last ones had to also suffer us putting them in this deplorable looking cage and most likely, like most of these old zoos of the time, not treated respectfully.
They must have been so scared, and anxious. I literally pray these creatures are alive just so their extinction was not there.
Rare photographs reveal the long-extinct marsupials in a more delicate light.
One image from a private collection, which Yahoo News has published with permission, shows two lounging side-by-side in the sun. The original photograph, which measures just 8.9cm x 8.9cm, was taken at Beaumaris Zoo in 1918.
It was quietly published in a journal for the first time just four years ago after it was purchased at auction in 2004, and other than a few tiger enthusiasts, few people have been aware of its existence. When it was shared to an online naturalist’s forum in June along with several other generally unknown photos taken in overseas zoos, they created a stir.
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