"Tasmanian wolf", along with "Tasmanian tiger", was a nickname for the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Neither a wolf nor a tiger (thee are no tigers or wolves in Australia), this animal is not "almost extinct" - it has gone. The Thylacine became extinct during the 20th century. The last known specimen died in the Hobart Zoo on the 7th of September, 1936.
It was hunted to extinction after a bounty was placed on it as a livestock killer. The government paid one pound for every dead adult thylacine head, and ten shillings for every dead thylacine pup head. Also, wild dogs that settlers brought in competed with the thylacines, reducing the prey of the thylacine.
The thylacine and Tasmanian devil both became extinct in mainland Australia hundreds of years earlier, probably because they were in competition with dingoes once the Aborigines came.
There is disputed evidence that a very small number may yet still exist in the Tasmanian wilderness, but nobody has seen, photographed or trapped one.
A recent attempt was made to clone one, but failed due to the DNA being of insufficient quality.
Further, it has been suggested that, in the early part of the Twentieth Century an extremely virulent disease began to spread first through the wild then captive populations. Exactly what this disease was remains unknown but it was described as being similar to but distinct from canine distemper. Another theory points to the fact that, by the time the Thylacine was confined to the island of Tasmania, the remaining specimens did not have sufficient genetic diversity to sustain the population. A similar problem is currently affecting the Tasmanian devil, resulting in the spread of the fatal DFTD, or Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
Don't think there is such an animal.
There was a Tasmanian Tiger, but it is generally considered exctinct since the 1930s.
Tasmanian wolves (Thylacines) became extinct in 1936
no, animals are still going extinct right now
You cannot. Thylacines (also known as Tasmanian togers or Tasmanian wolves) are extinct. If they were not extinct, they would be protected under Australian law, and you would still be unable to get anything with thylacine fur.
"Tasmanian wolf" was the misleading name for the now-extinct marsupial known as the Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger. The Thylacine was essentially a solitary animal, so it did not share its home.
The term "Tasmanian wolf" is erroneously applied to the Tasmanian tiger, which is more properly known as the Thylacine.Thylacines are believed to be extinct, but their unique striping on brown fur did camouflage them quite effectively.
The Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger, more properly known as the Thylacine, is now extinct. Prior to its extinction, it was a four-legged marsupial which ran and walked on all four legs.
As far as I know. There is no such living thing (animal) as a Tasmanian wolf. The nearest thing was the Tasmanian Tiger (Phylocene) and it is reputed to be extinct. It was a marsupial which means it gave birth to young not eggs.
The Tasmanian forester kangaroo is not extinct.
The Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, is an extinct marsupial carnivore. The thylacine was exclusively carnivorous. For more information on the diet of the thylacine, click on this link.
The Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, has been extinct since 1936.
Wolves in Mississippi are almost completely extinct, before colonialism most wolves in Mississippi were red wolves but now they are almost all gone. Most red wolves currently are in Texas and Louisiana. It's a shame but most wolves you hear about in Mississippi are simply coyotes.
wolves aren't extinct