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Thylacines (Tasmanian Tigers), at Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart, ca. 1918, State Library of New South Wales

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Jazz Guy said:
    I remember an australian movie back in the mid-80s (?) about humans that turned into these creatures. Sort of an Australian version of the movie "Leopard People." :-)
  • Σταύρος said:
    There was a show that stated they may still be around....

Sheep in drafting yards

from Powerhouse Museum

  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71221501 - this pic appeared in the Australian Town and Country Journal on 9th November, 1895...it was used to fill out an article on Sydney wool brokers etc Harrison, Jones & Devlin...the T&CJ didn't indicate the location ...see pic on first page of link...

Kangaroo hunting in Adavale, Queensland ca. 1928

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The killing of kangaroos by Europeans began at exactly the same time that the species was first identified. Shooting, naming, describing, scientifically classifying, sketching, dissecting, eating: these things all played out simultaneously as soon as Cook’s Endeavour got stranded on a reef in far north Queensland in June and July 1770. Many notable visitors participated in organized kangaroo hunts: Charles Darwin in 1836 (“my usual ill-fortune in sporting followed us”), Britain’s Admiral of the Fleet Henry Keppel in 1850, and the novelist Anthony Trollope in 1871. The Duke of Edinburgh came to the colonies in 1867 – the first royal visit – hunting kangaroo in South Australia and then traveling out to Victoria’s western district for more sport. Organized hunts could kill any number of kangaroos; alongside hunting meets that pursued individual roos as game, squatters also organized large-scale drives or battues, which could see thousands of kangaroos rounded up, slaughtered, and left to rot. Source: theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-art-of-the-colonial-...