Was the Tasmanian tiger intelligent

Answer 1

This is not known. The Tasmanian tiger, more properly known as the Thylacine, is believed to be extinct. Its hard to investigate the terrain of Tasmania because most of it is thick bushland or cool-temperate rainforest (but not jungle).

The Thylacine is believed to have been intelligent, as its head was large in proportion to its body size. Also, people did raise these animals as pets, like domesticated dogs, in the early twentieth century, and these animals were easily trained, very responsive, and similar in behaviour to dogs, despite not being related to the canine family in any way. Thylacines showed more intelligence than other marsupials such as kangaroos.

It is interesting to note that if one has not been sighted since the last recorded Thylacine died in 1936, it could either be intelligent by having learnt to avoid humans totally, as they were the direct cause of its extinction.