Endling

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This animal was an endling, the last known Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933.
This animal was an endling, the last known Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933.

An endling is the name given to an individual animal that is the last of its species. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct.

"On 7 September 1936 an endling died in Hobart Zoo. An endling is the name given to an animal that is the last of its species. In 1936, this endling was ‘Benjamin’ (actually a female), the last thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger."[1]

The Quagga became extinct in the wild in the late 1870s, and the species endling died in captivity on August 12, 1883 at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

A Quagga, this animal lived in New York zoo however and was not an endling.
A Quagga, this animal lived in New York zoo however and was not an endling.

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  1. ^ http://www.nma.gov.au/shared/libraries/.../tangled_destinies_full_colour.pdf - PDF

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