The Tasmanian Tiger, (Thylacinus cynocephalus) occasionally referred to as the Tasmanian Wolf, is a very unique kind of animal. Varying from 100cm to 130cm in length with a tail extending another 65cm they would weigh between 15-35kg making them the largest predatory marsupial ever known to man. The Tasmanian Tiger has coarse brown hair, a thick based tail like a Kangaroo, stripes like a Tiger which only start half way down its back and towards the tail, a pouch in which it would rear 2-3 young at a time and it has a bark like a dog. I first learnt about the Tasmanian Tiger from a documentary that I saw a couple of years before I even planned to come away, it stuck in my mind for a couple of reasons one is probably because my
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