“Benjamin” (thylacine)
Don’t call the last thylacine Benjamin. Despite the folklore, recent evidence suggests the last thylacine (aka Tasmanian tiger) was female, and the Benjamin name was completely made up by a tale-telling fellow in the 1960s. But that aside, there’s plenty of footage of the last thylacine, which died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936.
Thylacines likely survived in the wild for a while after that last known individual, but as the last known individual, the one that sadly died of exposure in the Hobart Zoo, is the endling.
And keep in mind, even if a thylacine proxy species is created… that’s not a true thylacine.
