Monty Jacka, Nine decades on, a witness to the last Tasmanian thylacine recounts her experience, ABC News, 5 September 2025
Even after nine decades, Peggie Bassett can still remember the guttural growl and striking scent of the last known thylacine as it prowled its concrete enclosure.
Sunday is the 89th anniversary of the animal’s death at Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936, which is generally regarded as the end of the species commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger.
Ms Bassett, 94, was just a young child when she visited the zoo with her family in the years before the animal died, but the memories have stayed with her.