Nine decades on, a witness to the last Tasmanian thylacine recounts her experience

Even after nine decades, Peggie Bassett can still remember the guttural growl and striking scent of the last known thylacine as it prowled its concrete enclosure.

Sunday is the 89th anniversary of the animal's death at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo in 1936, which is generally regarded as the end of the species commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger.

Ms Bassett, 94, was just a young child when she visited the zoo with her family in the years before the animal died, but the memories have stayed with her.

Alongside her grandmother and aunts, she would catch the tram from Lenah Valley into the CBD before trekking up the Queen's Domain to have a picnic at the zoo.

"Before you actually got there you could hear it … not barking or howling, just a low guttural sort of sound," Ms Bassett said.

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