Thylacines
Tasmanian wolf
Description
Habitat
The Tasmanian wolf was commonly found in Australia on islands like Tasmania. It became
extinct in Australia because it could not compete with the other carnivorous animals also trying
to get food.
People began destroying the Tasmanian wolves homes and replacing them with farms for their
own animals.
Other Facts
The Tasmanian wolf was a carnivore and attacked smaller animals. Once its food source
reduced it started eating the farmers sheep. The farmers didn’t like wild animals attacking
their sheep so they started a campaign to kill the carnivores that came around.
People began poisoning, shooting, trapping, hunting, etc. the Tasmanian wolf and the
population of them went down.
An unidentified disease spread through the remaining Tasmanian wolves and people say the
wild ones became extinct.
In the year 1936, the last living Tasmanian wolf died in captivity.
Later after that, people reported seeing some in the wild. They searched from the 1930’s to
1960’s but never found any.
In 1961, it was believed that a baby male Tasmanian wolf had been killed by accident on the
west coast in Tasmania.
Tasmanian Wolf in
captivity video:
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=6vqC
CI1ZF7o
Bibliography
Background:
http://www.terragalleria.com/black-white/parks/np-image.acad0377-bw.html
First slide pic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
Description Facts:
http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/ext_taswolf.htm
Tasmania map:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/australia/tasmania/
Tasmania scenery:
http://www.puretravel.com.au/holiday-destinations/visit-tasmania/
Sheep:
http://www.pertwood.co.uk/index.php?pagename=about_us_our_liv
estock
Wolf in captivity:
http://www.tasmaniatrip.com/tasmanian-tiger.html
Slide #5 picture:
http://neitshade5.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/thylacine_tasmanian_
tiger2.jpg