THYLACINE

Laura Hernando Latorre

Martina Pereira Lloveras

Lucía Pelayo Sanchez

DESCRIPTON

• Thylacines were the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.

• They are also known as Tasmanian tigers (because of its striped back) or as Tasmanians wolfs.

HABITAT

• They belonged to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and they became extinct in the 20th century.

CAUSES OF EXTINCTION

The theory says that the last thylacine died in 1932, in the zoo of Tasmania. People say that the cause pf extinction was because of humans, and their movement throw many places. In that period of time, a wild dog called Dingo (Canis familiaris) appeared in New Guinea. Thylacines were followed by farmers that protected their cattles.

• A long time ago, it existed five types of marsupial tigers, but it only became famous one; the thylacine.

• 1888: The Tasmanian Parliament offered £1 for every head of every alive thylacine.• 1909: The government finishes with the campaign of hunting thylacines. At that moment

they had paid 2184 bounties.• 1910: Thylacines started to be recognise by an animal in danger of extinction. Zoo’s

search for thylacines for exhibitions.• 1926: London Zoo bought the last thylacine for the prize of £150.• 1936: The last thylacine in captivity died in the Hobart Zoo, the 7th September of 1936.• 1986: The thylacine is named extinct by an international decree.• They say that since 1936 there’s no evidence that the Tasmanian tiger continues alive.

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