Did you get the 'Westbury Zoo' information from the radio interview with the old chap (cramp?) about his memories of the Hobart Zoo Thylacine(s) when he was a seven year old- or was it from some other source?
Re the picture-I think its a photo of one of those many badly mounted taxidermies, though I can't remember where it is offhand.
Yeah it's a well known mount, but I can't recall where it is either.
Yes I did get the Westbury info from the Cramp interview, recollections of a seven year old, eighty five or so years later, pretty solid wouldn't you say.
As I say I don't really take it seriously (and of course was joking in my previous post) but although it's a terribly long time ago I don't think it's impossible for the memory of something such as another tiger turning up to have stuck in his mind. So I'd say it deserves consideration. I am looking into it as best I can, but so far finding a trace of Westbury Zoo has been tricky enough.
I did e-mail the journalists involved, who replied saying they were looking into the matter, they also asked me for info about thylacines exported to overseas zoos in the later years, which I gave them. Heard nothing since.
