TASMANIAN TIGER

CHARACTERISTICS

• cross between a tiger (due to its stripes) and a dog (in terms of its build).
• t it was a relatively shy, nocturnal creature with the general appearance of a medium-to-large-size dog
• The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes (the other being the water opossum).
• was a hypercarnivore restricted to eating vertebrate flesh
• preferred the dry eucalyptus forests, wetlands, and grasslands in continental Australia

WHY EXTINCT?

• They went extinct because of being hunted by the indigenous population.

LOCATION?

• Native to Australia
• The last one was caught in 1933 and died three years later in a zoo in Hobart, Australia.