Thylacine cynocephalus

Thylacine cynocephalus (aka tasmanian tiger/wolf and zebra/marsupial wolf) is the largest marsupial predator to persist into modern times.

Biology
The Thylacine is a predatory marsupial native to Austalia. It was the size of a medium to large size dog, and boasted the appearence of one to, but had it's difference, including a marsupial pouch and a long, stiff tail. The Thylacine was a brownish-yellow, with 13-21 stripes adorning the back. The Thylacine has been reported to be able to open it's mouth to a quite large 80°, but had a relatively weak bite, and may have only fed on smaller prey including banicoots and possums., but the animal is also believed to have hunted Kangeroos, Wallabies, and Emus.

The Thylacine was a relatively shy animal, preffering to hide from humans more than most other predators. Reports and recent studies have proven that the Thylacine was an ambush predator rather than it's convergent evolution counterpart, the canines hunting method, long distance chases. Thylacines were nocturnal hunters, spending the daylight hours in dens with nests of twigs and foliage. Thylacines gave birth to 3-4 young, which stayed in the pouch until around half the size of the adults. The general life span of a captive Thylacine was 9 years, with an esimated 5-7 in the wild.

The Thylacine once had a range over much of Australia, New Guinea,and multiple islands along the coasts. While early Aboriginals would hunt it, the population wasn't severally under threat untill more humans came with dogs. Some of these dogs became feral, becoming the Dingo in Australia and the New Guinea Singing dog in New Guinea. These new predtors effectivally drove the Thylacine and many other species into extinction in these areas, leaving it to live on the largest of Australias ilands. This island provided refuge for the Thylacine and many other species, including the Tasmanian Devil. This refuge was unfortunetly found by British colonists, who began using the land for faming and towns. The Thylacine began to decline in numbers alongside the Tasmanian Emu, who went extinct in the 1850s. The Thylacine was later bhs of blamed for the deaths of livestock, and was hunted into extinction in the wild in 1933. The last few Thylacines lived in zoos until the year 1936, when the last Thylacine named Benjamin went extinct.

History
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