THE THYLACINE
TASMANIAN PECULIARITY
THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION.
Of the rare and strange animals now inhabiting the earth the thylacines of Tasmania, commonly known as the Tasmanian wolf, are among the most singular in appearance and habits. They have been almost exterminated, if not quite, by Tasmanian sheep farmers, whose folds they ravage. They are represented in the Zoological Gardens in London by a single living specimen. The thylacine looks like a cross between a wolf and a hyena, but it tiger-like stripes on its back and hind quarters, and belongs to the marsupials, like the kangaroo. But whereas the kangaroo feeds on vegetables, the thylacine is carnivorous. When Europeans first settled in Tasmanian thylacines were very common in the rocky and mountainous districts, but they are not now found in any other part of the world.
TASMANIAN PECULIARITY
THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION.
Of the rare and strange animals now inhabiting the earth the thylacines of Tasmania, commonly known as the Tasmanian wolf, are among the most singular in appearance and habits. They have been almost exterminated, if not quite, by Tasmanian sheep farmers, whose folds they ravage. They are represented in the Zoological Gardens in London by a single living specimen. The thylacine looks like a cross between a wolf and a hyena, but it tiger-like stripes on its back and hind quarters, and belongs to the marsupials, like the kangaroo. But whereas the kangaroo feeds on vegetables, the thylacine is carnivorous. When Europeans first settled in Tasmanian thylacines were very common in the rocky and mountainous districts, but they are not now found in any other part of the world.
Great Southern Advocate (Korumburra, Vic: 1889 – 1906) Thu 13 Oct 1904, Page 6
