The Thylacine (or the Tasmanian Tiger) was Tasmania’s top predator but it was hunted to extinction with the last known of the species dying at the Hobart Zoo in 1936, seen here in this photo from the Australian National Museum. Its passing came about through farmers’ suspicions that it preyed on livestock and bounty hunters were authorised.
But what if, wonders Lindsay Arnold, instead of exterminating we’d succeeded in domesticating? Here’s the first series of moments showing the elusive marsupial in the wild and in its imagined role as a desirable companion animal. Many more to come as Lindsay Arnold’s thylacine dreamworld moves between the possible and the outright weird.
