Yes. The tiger quolls, also known as the spotted tailed quoll, is an Australian marsupial.
The largest of the quolls in Australia, it is mostly found in Tasmania, and some locations along the eastern seaboard of the mainland, through Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales. Spotted tailed quolls, or Tiger quolls live in most types of forest, from bushland to rainforest, as long as there is plenty of ground cover. They also live in thick coastal heathlands along the eastern coast of Australia.
Tiger quolls are solitary, living alone. However, their territory overlaps with that of other tiger quolls, and where there are numerous quolls in proximity to each other, it is known as a colony.
Tiger quolls are neither "good" nor "bad", as these are terms describing human qualities. Tiger quolls are carnivorous marsupials. They keep to themselves, and hunt in order to survive.
It is unknown how many tiger quolls, also known as spotted-tailed quolls, there are left in the wild. No research has been undertaken since 1993, but numbers do appear to have fallen significantly in the last twenty years. These quolls live in scattered colonies, which also makes it difficult to accurately determine numbers, and its conservation status, as listed with the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage, is endangered.
No. Spotted tailed quolls, also known as tiger quolls, are found only in Australia.
Yes. Tiger quolls, like all quolls, are semi-arboreal. They are well adapted to climbing trees in order to capture unsuspecting prey at night, such as perching birds.
Tiger quolls use all four limbs for walking, running and climbing.
Tiger quolls are mammals, and marsupials.Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: MammaliaInfraclass: MarsupialiaOrder: DasyuromorphiaFamily: DasyuridaeGenus: DasyurusSpecies: D.Maculatus
No. Northern quolls tend to be solitary, although less so than the other three species of quoll in Australia.
No. Quolls do not hibernate. The only Australian marsupial which undergoes any period of hibernation is the Mountain Pygmy possum.
This depends on the species. There are four species of quoll in Australia.1. Spotted tailed quolls, also known as tiger quolls, live in bushland, coastal heathland andrainforest along the eastern coast of Australia.2. Northern quolls live in rocky areas and eucalyptus bushland from northeast Queensland right along the northern coast to northwestern Western Australia.3. Eastern quolls live in a range of habitats, from heavily wooded bushland and rainforest, to grasslands and even agricultural fringes in Tasmania. They are believed to be extinct on the mainland.4. The Western quoll, also known as the Chudich, has retreated to just the far southwestern corner of the Australian continent. It used to be found in Queensland, but has not been sighted there for decades.Within their habitat, quolls shelter in hollow logs, rock crevices or burrows in the sand.
There is no such creature as an Australian tiger, and there are no members of the cat family native to Australia. There was once a marsupial mistakenly called a Tasmanian Tiger, which died out in the 1930s, but this animal was not a member of the tiger family, or even remotely related.
No. Quolls do not die after mating.