Sadly, this Tasmanian tiger family, photographed in 1910 at the Hobart Beaumaris Zoo, is no longer with us.
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Although it was neither a tiger nor a wolf, the thylacine was also known by the names Tasmanian tiger and Tasmanian wolf. In actuality, it was the biggest carnivorous marsupial to have existed in the contemporary era. The thylacine was a reclusive, nocturnal apex predator that was native to Tasmania, Australia, and New Guinea. Although the animal’s population had been dropping for some time, it is thought to have gone extinct in the 20th century. The Tasmanian tiger was exterminated due to disease, poaching, habitat degradation, and domesticated dogs.
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