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Is a tiger a marsupials

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 2/27/2022

The tiger is not a marsupial. It is a placvental mammal.

The now-extinct "Tasmanian tiger" was a marsupial, but it was not a member of the tiger family. Its real name was "thylacine" and it was only given the designation of Tasmanian tiger because of its stripes.

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