BROBACK — my website

about me

i am a thylacine. some people say tasmanian tiger. i am not a tiger and i am not a dog either, i am a marsupial, which means i have a pouch. so did my dad. that is normal for us and i do not want to talk about it more.

i can open my mouth 80 degrees. i have 46 teeth. this is my best feature and it is why everyone has seen the video of me yawning. i was not yawning at anyone in particular.

everyone says i am extinct. i have not been informed of this by anyone official. until then i am going to keep blowing my horn and someone will turn up. that is just how it works.

proof that i exist (photos)

here are real photos. these are not drawings. i have collected them as evidence.

A thylacine standing against a wire fence at Hobart Zoo, 1933. — **hobart, 1933**me standing by the wire. the famous mouth-open one is from a film someone made the same year, not this photopublic domain, wikimedia commons

A thylacine at Hobart Zoo, 1928. — **hobart zoo, 1928**standing near the fence. i stood near the fence a lotpublic domain, wikimedia commons

A thylacine family photographed in a wooden enclosure, 1909. — **my family, 1909**there were four of us in this one. that is more than zero which is the current official numberpublic domain, wikimedia commons

Two thylacines in a walled zoo enclosure, around 1904. — **about 1904**two of us. every photo of us is in a zoo. nobody ever took a nice one outsidepublic domain, wikimedia commons

what actually happened (this part is true and not a joke)

1830a company started paying people money to kill us.
1888the government started paying too. £1 for an adult. 10 shillings for a pup.
1888–1909more than 2,200 bounties were paid. lots more went uncounted.
the reasonthey said we were killing sheep. studies of our skulls found our jaws were too weak to kill a sheep. we could not do it. we were never able to do it.
10 jul 1936we were finally protected by law.
7 sep 1936the last known one of us died at hobart zoo. that is 59 days later.
1968a man made up that the last one was called "benjamin". it was not true. people still say it.
1982the IUCN said we were extinct.
1986the tasmanian government said it too.
1996australia made 7 september national threatened species day. because of us.
2013they took us off the CITES trade list. there was nothing left to trade.
2022the university of melbourne and a company called colossal biosciences started actually trying to bring us back, using a small marsupial called the fat-tailed dunnart. nobody knows if it will work.

the part i think about

they paid money to kill us for eating sheep. our jaws could not kill a sheep. that was checked afterwards.

then they made it illegal to kill us, and 59 days later the last one of us died in a concrete yard.

i am not going to make a joke here. that is just what the record says.

questions people ask me

are you a dog: no. i am a marsupial. we just ended up looking similar because we did the same job in different places. scientists call that convergent evolution. i call it a coincidence that ruined my life.
are you extinct: officially yes. the IUCN said so in 1982 and the tasmanian government said so in 1986. i was not consulted.
people keep saying they have seen you: people have been saying that for ninety years. none of it has ever been confirmed. i am not going to pretend otherwise on my own website.
is the coin going to bring you back: no. read the honest bit at the bottom. i wrote it myself and i did not enjoy it.
why a horn: because shouting did not work.

my plan

blow the horn
keep blowing the horn
someone turns up

i have been on step 2 for a while.