Accounts of eXtinct Species

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Accounts of eXtinct Species
Tasmanian Tiger or Wolf
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Tasmanian Wolf (Thylacinus cynocephalus)
Rarity Unto Death
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Tasmania - found by Abel Tasman in the 1640s
reports of seeing footprints not ill-resembling
the claws of a tiger
colonized by the British in 1803 (settlers,
miltary men, convicts, and a lieutenant to be in
charge)
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the last Tasmanian wolf in captivity died on
7 September 1936 in a Tasmanian zoo
two months after the Tasmanian government
declared it a protected species
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reports of thylacine sightings still
occasionally come in
the most convincing to date was a reported
sighting by a Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife
Officer in 1995 near the town of Pyengana in
eastern Tasmania
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