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	San Francisco Zoo \| About the New Zoo - Historical Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 16th hippopotamus calf is born at the Zoo to "Puddles" and "Cuddles".
		The Children's Zoo entrance is renovated; and the castle removed, the last vestige from the old Storyland area.
		The Zoo, headquarters of the Madagascar Fauna Group, is a joint recipient of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association's International Conservation Award for Significant Achievement for its work releasing fl-and-white ruffed lemurs in Madagascar.
	www.sfzoo.org /about/timeline.htm (1967 words)

	Carnivorous Nights
		The zoo's first director, William Temple Hornaday, had a strong interest in taxidermy, and the curator of the museum's mammal department, J. Allen, had provided him with arsenic to help preserve the bodies, pelts, and skins.
		On September 7, 1936, at a small zoo in Hobart, Tasmania's capital, a thylacine---the last one in captivity anywhere in the world---passed away in the middle of the night.
		The Hobart zoo's thylacine became the proverbial "last tiger." For the next fifty years, the searches continued, but no tangible evidence of the tiger was uncovered.
	www.carnivorousnights.com /excerpt/index.html (1218 words)

	Cloning the Dead
		Zoo visitors would take a few moments to watch the dull brown animal's quiet and nervous pacing and then move on.
		Those that were brought to zoos didn't last very long, and in spite of efforts to breed them, they never reproduced in captivity.
		Ironically, the zoo itself closed its doors the following year, and all that remained of the strange predator were pictures, a few skeletons and pelts, and the preserved specimen of a pup floating in alcohol on a shelf at the Australian Museum.
	knowledgenews.net /issues2002/sample3.htm (2244 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Hobart
		An HIV medicine conference in Hobart has heard that Australia is one of the few countries that has been able to largely stop the spread of HIV into the heterosexual population.
		Hobart was one city that didn't have much luck during the auditions.
		In the September 6 edition of the Hobart Mercury, a Tasmanian newspaper, Roebuck was quoted as saying: I joined the Communist party of Australia because it was the only party to me that seemed to be speaking honestly and with intelligent conviction about Vietnam at the time.
	news.surfwax.com /worldcities/files/Hobart_Australia.html (4235 words)

	San Francisco Zoo \| About the New Zoo - General History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The animal exhibits were, in the words of Hobart, “ten structures designed to house the animals and birds in quarters as closely resembling native habitats as science can devise.” These new structures included Monkey Island, Lion House, Elephant House, a sea lion pool, an aviary and bear grottos.
		For 23 years Baldwin lived in the Zoo Director’s house on Zoo grounds, overseeing the care of the collection, the growth of the facilities and the birth of the San Francisco Zoological Society.
		Bwana and Missy, the Zoo’s first two gorillas, who had come to the Zoo in 1959, spent the first week in their new exhibit learning to pluck grass and climb real trees.
	www.sfzoo.org /about/genHistory.htm (1599 words)

	Boing Boing: Get ready for National Thylacine Day, Sept. 7!
		The last captive thylacine died in the Hobart Zoo on September 7, 1936.
		The last thylacine was captured in 1924, with its mother and siblings, in Florentine Valley, Tasmania.
		In 1933, this last thylacine, a female, was sold to the Hobart Zoo.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/09/06/get_ready_for_nation.html (393 words)

	Guardian \| Back from the dead
		The last known Tasmanian Tiger - or thylacine - died in a private zoo in Hobart in 1936.
		One sure thing is that the ecological goal of maintaining and encouraging biodiversity would be better served by more funds and attention going towards saving animals currently in danger of becoming extinct and, in a broader sense, to preserving the environments in which all animals live.
		There exists fl and white footage of the last Tasmanian Tiger in the private zoo, shot at a time when people knew the days of the species were numbered.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4424142-110732,00.html (683 words)

	nwi.com :: news
		Indiana's oldest zoo, the Potawatomi Zoo, was established in 1902 in South Bend's Leeper Park, zoo director Greg Bockheim said.
		It is accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, one of four zoos in Indiana and 211 out of about 2,500 in the United States to have earned that distinction.
		The zoo is one of only seven in the United States that have a takin in their collections.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2005/05/28/your_saturday/one_tank_trip/8f84acf9ff74e4468625700c00629f3b.txt (1265 words)

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		This animal was kept in Hobart Zoo but died the same year.
		The last Tiger in captivity dies in the now defunct Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart on September 7th 1936.
		On this expedition, two thylacines were caught in a pit, but released after it was found that their permit for the expedition had been cancelled.
	www.geocities.com /TheTSF/Timeline.htm (601 words)

	News for May 2003
		In 1998 she was sent to Perth Zoo for seven months to interact with the successful colony there.
		Nakuru is a Rothschilds giraffe born at Perth Zoo.
		Kiri was born at Auckland Zoo in 1984.
	www.angelfire.com /ab5/ozzoos/maynews2003.html (702 words)

	News for September
		The zoo needed to take the egg away as the parent birds always broke their eggs.
		Wellington Zoo, in New Zealand, anounced the birth of a female giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis, on September the.
		The zoo are looking for a name for her and apparently she will be moved to Hamilton Zoo before she is a year old.
	www.angelfire.com /ab5/ozzoos/sepnews.html (584 words)

	Royal zoo outing - Royal Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Australian-born royal took her one-year-old son Prince Christian - nicknamed 'kingaroo' - to visit the animals at Bonorong Wildlife Park, north of her hometown Hobart, with husband Prince Frederik.
		The outing is to be the royal family's only official appearance during their private trip to visit Mary's two sisters Jane Stephens and Patricia Bailey, who still live in Hobart.
		During their tour of the zoo they were introduced to some of park's residents, including a koala, a blue-tongued lizard and a wombat.
	people.monstersandcritics.com /royalwatch/article_1225692.php/Royal_zoo_outing (270 words)

	RACP 2003 Annual Scientific Meeting - Travel, Rest & Play: What to do (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Getting around Hobart by foot is the way to go and explore the capital but make use of your Metro "off peak multi trip bus pass" if you prefer to take it easy.
		Enjoy panoramic views of Hobart City and surrounding areas from Mount Wellington which is about a 30 minutes drive from the centre of Hobart or 45 minutes by coach.
		This new attraction conducted by the Forestry Tasmania is a fabulous opportunity to view the forestry canopy of the Tahune Forest Reserve from a totally new perspective.
	www.racp.edu.au /asm/asm2003/travel_todo.htm (901 words)

	Burke's Backyard Archives 1999 - Tasmanian Tiger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was a shy, elusive creature hunted to extinction after only a century of European settlement in Australia.
		The last known animal died in a Hobart zoo over sixty years ago, ironically just a few months after it had been declared a protected species.
		There is ample genetic material available to work with - apart from a young animal preserved in ethyl alcohol in the Australian Museum, specimens are also held in the Hobart Museum, the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.burkesbackyard.com.au /1999/archives/25/conservation_&_the_environment/tasmanian_tiger?mysource_site_extension=printer_friendly_pages (395 words)

	ufo - UFOS at close sight: Thylacinus Cynocephalus, chupacabras candidate
		A reason called upon for its disappearance in Australian mainland is that he was ecologically in competition with the dingo, but it cannot be silenced that it had been slaughters on behalf of the stockbreeders of sheep of Tasmania who suspected it of decimating their herds.
		Although the last thylacine is supposedly deceased at the Hobart zoo in 1936 (*), there is a considerable number of people who claim to have seen one later, in New Zealand in Australia, and in Indonesia.
		Starting in 1805, London zoo sheltered two specimens of them, while having imported a score, their last specimen dying there in 1931.
	ufologie.net /htm/thylacine.htm (1241 words)

	Media bushed as Mary disappears \| Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania
		Photos of Princess Mary, the former Hobart girl, have graced the Mercury front page and television news since she arrived in the state for a private family holiday last Wednesday.
		It is believed they left the West Hobart home of Mary's sister Jane Stephens early in the morning.
		Hobart surgeon Stephen Wilkinson and his wife, romance novelist Ris, are believed to have given the keys to their Swansea holiday home, Sandscape, to one of Mary's sisters.
	www.news.com.au /mercury/story/0,22884,20826670-3462,00.html (726 words)

	California King Snake: WhoZoo
		In the wild, the snake lays its eggs once a year although it is possible for it to lay eggs twice a year.
		The Kingsnake with fl and yellow rings located at the Forth Worth Zoo is the one he spoke about.
		The snake at the zoo is a female that was bought from a breeder.
	www.whozoo.org /Intro2000/vansibor/VanSib_CaliforniaKingsnake.htm (864 words)

	Unfortunate coincidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		----- (from The Merecury (Hobart) 19.8.02) http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4926879%255E3462,00.html All eyes on sale of Tassie tiger rug By DANIELLE WOOD August 19, 2002 IT'S a tragic irony that a historic rug made from the skins of eight thylacines will go to auction on the 66th anniversary of the death of the last Tasmanian tiger in captivity.
		September 7 was made Threatened Species Day in honour of the thylacine that died in 1936 at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart.
		TMAG trustee and Hobart City Council alderman John Freeman said: "Obviously, it should stay in Tasmania." But he said the TMAG was committed financially to the Glover fundraising.
	taint.org /pipermail/forteana/2002-August/000389.html (440 words)

	Tasmanian Wildlife - Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger
		When old enough to leave the pouch, the young stayed in a lair such as a deep rocky cave, well-hidden nest or hollow log, whilst the mother hunted.
		Thylacines lived in zoos for up to 9 years, but never bred in captivity.
		The last known thylacine died in Hobart Zoo on 7th September, 1936.
	www.parks.tas.gov.au /wildlife/mammals/thylacin.html (1505 words)

	2002 \| Et Melius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The last known thylacine died in the Hobart zoo in the early twentieth century, though people occasionally claim to spot one out in the bush.
		Another attraction deep in the forest south of Hobart is the Tahune Forest Airwalk.
		Gave me a chance to snap this pre-dawn picture out over Hobart from the place we were staying.
	www.etmeli.us /image/tid/29,31 (638 words)

	Em in Sydney
		Between Hobart and Port Arthur, we stopped to look at this inlet, and I took a picture of where we were.
		This is a stencil that was spray painted as graffiti on a wall on the side of a building in Hobart.
		While in Hobart, we went to a museum that had video of the last known Tasmanian Tiger, from 1936.
	eminsydney.blogspot.com (1652 words)

	tiger - news education science magazines technology science news environment magazine subscriptions anthropology ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The last thylacine died at the island's Hobart Zoo in 1936.
		The next one may be born as soon as 2010, cloned from animals that have been dead for a century.
		Museum researchers have extracted DNA from the bone marrow and internal organs of museum specimens, including a thylacine pup preserved in a pickle jar.
	www.discover.com /issues/oct-03/rd/breaktiger.html (350 words)

	tasmania.citysearch.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iconic landscapes include Hobart's impressive backdrop, Mount Wellington, along with Richmond's convict-hewn sandstone bridge, Mount Roland, Lake Marion, Russell Falls and Lake Saint Clair.
		Another state emblem not missing its turn in the spotlight is the tragically extinct Thylacine.
		Hunted into oblivion, the last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936.
	www.tasmania.citysearch.com.au /profile?fid=14&id=43402&p=1 (179 words)

	Rough justice - endangered-species - 19 May 2001 - New Scientist
		But a watercolour and pencil sketch, now owned by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart, is almost as rare as alleged sightings of the thylacine itself.
		It shows the last wild thylacine captured in Tasmania pacing her enclosure at the Hobart Zoo.
		Three years later, on a frigid winter night, the last known thylacine died at the zoo.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/life/endangered-species/mg17022915.100 (389 words)

	Tasmania: Hobart - On the Road - BootsnAll Travelogues
		I went up to Battery Point and then spent a couple of hours in the Museum of Tasmania, which had all kinds of fascinating exhibits, including the only footage of a Tasmanian Tiger (thylacine).
		The last known animal died in Hobart Zoo in 1936 and it's believed to be extinct, though some people still hope that there are some living out in the wilderness.
		There was a cool display of giant model animals that were alive during the Pleistocene period.
	blogs.bootsnall.com /rowena/archives/007546.shtml (356 words)

	Articles - David Fleay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He realised the importance of endangered species early in his career when, in 1933, he was the last person to photograph a captive thylacine or Tasmanian tiger at the Hobart Zoo.
		Later that year, disagreements with the zoo's management came to a head and Fleay was dismissed, principally because of his belief that native birds and animals should be fed what they would eat in the wild.
		He studied animal husbandry at various zoos and wildlife sanctuaries across the U.S.A., returning to Healesville in October to discover that the Board had dismissed him for supposed unauthorised donations of animals to various foreign zoos.
	www.lastring.com /articles/David_Fleay?mySession=c85684d244371f53e4621cef6f00c9cd (1082 words)

	State Library of Tasmania Images: Home > Search results
		Hobart views from Mt Wellington (b): collection of postcards [more detail]
		Hobart views from the harbour: collection of postcards [more detail]
		Hobart Wrest Point non Rose postcard series (a): collection of postcards [more detail]
	images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au /Search/Search.asp?Format=Postcard&Page=10 (246 words)

	Thylacine - Should the Thylacine be cloned? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1966 he collects samples at the Whyte River which he identifies as Tasmanian Tiger hair, but none of his searches yield definite evidence of the survival of the species.
		The last known Tasmanian Tiger dies in captivity in Tasmania's Hobart Zoo.
		The last known wild Tasmanian Tiger is captured and sold to the Hobart Zoo.
	www.austmus.gov.au /thylacine/timeline.htm (408 words)

	Hunting Tasmania's Extinct 'Tiger'
		The last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart zoo of exposure in 1936.
		The species had been quite deliberately hunted to extinction by farmers incensed at the number of sheep being taken by animals that were seen as nothing more than pests.
		She leads a research team at Hobart University and has an open mind about the tiger's survival.
	www.rense.com /general65/taz.htm (648 words)

	to EACH its OWN !!!!: Tasmanian Tiger - Science fiction or fact?
		By the time the Australian government moved to protect the tigers, it was too late.
		The last known captive Thylacine, named Benjamin, died in the Hobart Zoo on Sept. 7, 1936.
		1936 World's last captive thylacine died in Hobart Zoo, (7/9/36).
	sakshijuneja.blogspot.com /2005/09/tasmanian-tiger-science-fiction-or.html (1002 words)

	Tasmanians seek a species thought lost - The Boston Globe
		Richards says her camera was out of reach but insists there was no mistaking the animal's distinctive fl stripes.
		Bailey says his obsession with the thylacine began when he was 29, after he became convinced that he saw one outside the mainland city of Adelaide not far from his home.
		He theorizes that the animal he saw had escaped from a zoo decades earlier.
	www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2004/11/21/tasmanians_seek_a_species_thought_lost (1144 words)

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