This recording is nearly a century old, and it was colorized so we could know what they really looked like.
The animal shown was named Benjamin, and he was the last known male Tasmanian tiger on Earth. This species had survived for four million years, until the Australian government offered a reward of just one pound per head. Hunters tracked down and killed more than 3,500 specimens in just a few decades.
Benjamin lived confined in the Hobart Zoo. In the winter of 1936, a keeper forgot to let him into his shelter during a night of extreme cold, and he died of exposure. The government had granted the species official protection 59 days before that death, too late to change anything. Today, less than two minutes of footage remain of all that this species was.
But the story does not end there: there are still people who claim to see Tasmanian tigers in remote areas of the island. No sighting has ever been confirmed, although no one has managed to rule them out completely either.