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Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
Tassie Tours Tasmania
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Wednesday7am - 8pm
Thursday7am - 8pm
Friday7am - 8pm
Saturday7am - 8pm


The thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or the Tasmanian wolf . Native to continental Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, it is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its family, Thylacinidae; specimens of other members of the family have been found in the fossil record dating back to the late Oligocene. Surviving evidence suggests that it was a relatively shy, nocturnal creature with the general appearance of a medium-to-large-size dog, except for its stiff tail and abdominal pouch and dark transverse stripes that radiated from the top of its back, reminiscent of a tiger. The thylacine was an apex predator, like the tigers and wolves of the Northern Hemisphere from which it obtained two of its common names. As a marsupial, it was not closely related to these placental mammals, but because of convergent evolution it displayed a similar general form and adaptations. Its closest living relative is thought to be either the Tasmanian devil or the numbat. The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes . The male thylacine had a pouch that presumably acted as a protective sheath, covering his external reproductive organs while he ran through thick brush. The thylacine has been described as a formidable predator.The thylacine had become extremely rare or extinct on the Australian mainland before British settlement of the continent, but it survived on the island of Tasmania along with several other endemic species, including the Tasmanian devil. Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributing factors may have been disease, the introduction of dogs, and human encroachment into its habitat. Despite its official classification as extinct, sightings are still reported, though none have been confirmed.
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