Thylacine Display - Ballarat Wildlife Park May 2013

Ballarat Wildlife Park, May 2013.

Thylacine Display

It is cool that a zoo has a display like this. Is that a real mounted thylacine?

DavidBrown said:

It is cool that a zoo has a display like this. Is that a real mounted thylacine?

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I honestly don't know if its real or not, I couldn't tell! I'm thinking its not, given its location and the fact that it's in pretty good condition - not very faded or anything.

It is immediately adjacent to one of the Tasmanian Devil enclosures, which gives a great opportunity to compare two very different large carnivorous marsupials.

It's a model, but it's lovely to see something on display like that. Well done to whoever put it there.

yes it is a model rather than a mounted specimen.

As an aside, zooboy's photo has already made its appearance on several cryptozoology sites (e.g. CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: Thylacine Display - Ballarat Wildlife Park May 2013)

Chlidonias said:

yes it is a model rather than a mounted specimen.

As an aside, zooboy's photo has already made its appearance on several cryptozoology sites (e.g. CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: Thylacine Display - Ballarat Wildlife Park May 2013)

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Ooooh, thats the first time one of my ZooChat photos has made it somewhere else that I know of. We should add it to your thread on where people's photos end up.

zooboy28 said:

I couldn't tell! I'm thinking its not, given its location and the fact that it's in pretty good condition - not very faded or anything.

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The head and posture appear very lifelike, I have seen photos of live ones in the Hobart zoo(s) which looked like that- maybe they copied a photo.

The colour isn't right though- perhaps they copied that from a (faded) museum specimen? In life they were grey with blackish (or very dark brown) stripes. Museum skins kept out of the light show this clearly.