The Tasmanian Devil Unzoo is truly a place with no limits, almost. The zoo has no boundary walls or enclosures, allowing its animals to roam freely. Cages and fences were removed and nesting boxes were installed, allowing animals to roam freely. The only animals at the Unzoo that remain enclosed are the Tasmanian devils, which have the most powerful bite relative to the body size of any living mammalian carnivore. Originally it was called the Tasmanian Devil Park and would run as a conventional zoo, attracted by a few orphaned Tasmanian devil creatures.
Here we can interact with these cute animals – the Forester kangaroo (Macropus giganteus tasmaniensis). They are subspecies of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo, native to Tasmania. For a better experience with these beautiful creatures, watch the video.
Such unique and intriguing creatures they are that they have their own Devil Cemetery.
This fascinating zoological garden, BEAUMARIS ZOO, was marked by one special animal – thylacine – known as the Tasmanian Tiger. Its name was Benjamin.
Benjamin was an “endling”, a term used to describe the last individual of a species, whose death signifies extinction. Some individual tigers might have still been in the wild until at least the 1960s, but Benjamin’s death is widely accepted as the true end.
Hobart’s historic Beaumaris Zoo was founded by Mary Roberts on the grounds of her Battery Point home in 1895. After her death, the zoo was relocated to this site in 1923. The zoo included elephants, lions, polar bears, and many other animals but is now better known as the location of the last captive Tasmanian tiger – Thylacinus cynocephalus. The zoo closed on 25 November 1937.
The colorful gate now at the site was installed in September 2000 (World Threatened Species Day) and features sculptures of those long-gone Tasmanian tigers that once called this zoo home.
Frog on the border 