Facts about the Tasmanian Tiger(Thylacine) 🐅

Facts about the Tasmanian Tiger(Thylacine)

scientific name: Thylacinus cynocephalus

Where and when they lived

When did they first appear?

These animals first appeared about 2 million years ago in Tasmania.

Where?

Tasmania is an island near Australia.

Facts

• Amazing mouth gape ( 80%)

• stripes on back like tiger

• amazing stamina (the ability to run for a long time without getting tired (usually to tire prey out)

• largest marsupial

• 39-51 inches

• 44-66 pounds

• top of the food chain until humans

Predators

• humans

How did it become extinct?

• Humans arrived, started sheep farms (around 1800s). There were 5,000 thylacine living there

• Settlers didn't want Thylacine to eat their sheep so they killed almost all of them except for 2 or 3.

• (1900) The last 2 Thylacine were kept in a safe place where scientist could study them.

• Last Thylacine dies around 1926

Poll

Do you think it was right for settlers to just kill every single Tasmanian Tiger?

• yes!

• no!

• maybe yes?

• yes and no!

• maybe no?

Multiple Select

Select all of their prey

• lions

• kangaroo

• baby birds

• dodo bird

• wallaby

Multiple Select

What does stamina mean? Select all answers that have a similar meaning to stamina.

• the ability to run for a long time usually at a slow speed without getting tired to tire prey.

• the ability to run very fast for a short time

• the ability to run slow, but to a far place

• the ability to run super duper fast for a long long time

Open Ended

Why do you think that Tasmanian Tigers were called Tasmanian Tigers?

Multiple Choice

Scientific name:

• Thylacinius Tiberus

• Thylacinus Cynocephalus

• Tigerius Tasmanius

• Tasmania Tigerius Thylacinius

Multiple Select

Thylacine were killed off by

• a drought

• habitat destruction

• hunting

• humans

• sheep

Poll

Did you like this quiz?

• yes

• no

• maybe