The spotted tailed quoll, also known as the spot-tailed quoll or tiger quoll, is Endangered nationally and Vulnerable in Tasmania.
Tiger quolls/ spotted tail quolls are endangered by loss of habitat, and especially from predation by introduced species such as dogs, cats and foxes, as well as competition from introduced species. The Spotted-tail Quoll in the north is being killed off as a result of eating the Cane Toad, which is poisonous. Timber harvesting in Tasmania poses a significant threat to the spotted tail quoll's shelter and removes hiding places for the quoll's prey, resulting in less food.
In some areas, because quolls have been known to kill poultry, farmers have deliberately baited the marsupials. This is an illegal practice, but it still happens. Further, quolls are known to ingest the 1080 poison put down to control populations of feral cats, foxes and rabbits.
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. 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.
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.
The tiger is currently considered an endangered species.
The Chinese tiger is the most endangered. Others are Siberian tiger, and the Sumatran tiger.
the tiger was listed as endangered when all tiger subspecies where put on the endangered list back in the late 1980s
Tiger quolls use all four limbs for walking, running and climbing.
Indian lions/Asiatic lions (Panthera Leo persica) are classified as Endangered.
Tiger quolls are mammals, and marsupials.Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: MammaliaInfraclass: MarsupialiaOrder: DasyuromorphiaFamily: DasyuridaeGenus: DasyurusSpecies: D.Maculatus