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David Fleay

01 Jan, 1970 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

David Howells Fleay ( 6 January 1907 – 7 August 1993) was an Australian scientist and biologist who pioneered the captive breeding of endangered species, and was the first person to breed the platypus in captivity & last person to capture a thylacine on film.

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