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Tasmanian Wolf
The Tasmanian wolf, or thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus, was once common in Tasmania and Australia ...
Tasmanian wolf
welfare no other marsupial was hunted so bitter and merciless like the Tasmanian wolf. This biggest Raubbeutler is very similar for a dog. it gains th...
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or Tasmanian wolf: see thylacine.
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Thylacine - (th´lsn´´) or Tasmanian wolf, carnivorous marsupial, or pouched mammal, of Tasmania.
Like the Tasmanian wolf , which has been exterminated all believed to be, because of its inroads on the domestic poultry and livestock, the Tasmanian devil also preys on the Wallaby , lizards, rodents, and other small animals.
The largest representative of the family is the Tasmanian wolf,' or thylacine, alone representing the genus Thylacinus, in which the dentition numbers i. t, c. i, p., m.
Order Dasyuromorphia - numbat, extinct Tasmanian wolf
Order Peramelemorphia - bandicoots and bilbies
Order Notoryctemorphia - marsupial moles
Order Diprotodontia - (10 families and 117 species) kangaroos, wallaby, wombats, koalas ...
The dingo, a wild dog introduced into Australia, is the only enemy of the kangaroo, except for man. A natural predator used to be the Tasmanian wolf, but this has become extinct (although reports of sightings crop up from time to time).
 See also: Marsupial, Wolf, Thylacine, Kangaroo, Tasmanian Devil
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