TASMANIAN TIGER

WHAT WAS IT?

• It was a large carnivorous marsupail
• Now believed to be extinct. Only
• Members of the family believed to survive
• Modern times.

LOOK LIKE?

• Sandy yellow-brown to grey
• Had 15 to 20 distinct dark stripes
• Across the back from shoulders
• To tail.

WHAT DID THEY EAT?

• Mostly kangaroos and other
• Marsupials, small rodents
• And birds.

WHERE IT LIVED?

• Continental Australia
• New Guinea
• South of Tasmania

WHY IT BECAME EXTINCT?

• Extinction- it was alleged
• As a pest.

BABIES?

• They were to bear around
• Three young once a year,
• During the winter-breeding
• Season.

NEST?

• It nested deep down in
• Rocky caves or hollow logs.