TASMANIAN TIGERBy: Jadeibet Chavez Avila

WHAT HAPPEN IN LIFETasmanian tiger is also called tasmanian wolf was a

large animal in Australia most scientist believe that it is extinct. Fossils indicate that this animal was once

common throughout Australia. But it lived only on the island of Tasmania when Europeans began settling the region in the late 1700's. The Europeans hunted the animal because they thought it preyed on sheep and

poultry. The last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936. Australians often call Tasmanian tigers

thylacines.

HOW THEY LOOK LIKE

A tasmanian tiger is about 5 feet tall (1.5 meters ) long, including a tail of about 20 inches (51 centimeters). It had short gray

or yellowish-brown fur and dark stripes across the rear of its back

HOW THEY CARRY THEIR BABIES

The tasmanian tiger was a marsupial. Like other marsupial, the female tasmanian tiger carried its

young in a pouch on its belly. Until they developed more fully. The pouch of the tasmanian tiger was

unsual because it opened to the rear of the body. In most other marsupials , the pouch opens to the front.