What is the diet of the Tasmanian wolf?

Answer 1

The Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), was a carnivorous marsupial, or dasyurid. It fed on native animals such as wallabies, wombats, possums, birds and other prey smaller than itself.

The Thylacine sometimes scavenged for food, and was known to feed on the carcasses of rabbits and wallabies.

Some studies have concluded that the animal may have hunted in small family groups, with the main group herding prey in the general direction of an individual waiting in ambush. However, scientific and fossil evidence indicates the Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, was a solitary animal that lived and hunted alone.

The Thylacine became extinct during the 20th century. The last known specimen died in the Hobart Zoo on 7 September 1936. It was hunted to extinction after a bounty was placed on it as a livestock killer.

Answer 2

The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger and sometimes the Tasmanian Wolf), designated extinct in 1986, had an exclusively carnivorous diet. Its stomach was muscular and has the ability to digest large amounts of food at one time. This is thought to have allowed the animal to survive for long periods of time when little food was available or when hunts were unsuccessful.

Its prey would have included kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, birds, and other small animals such as possums. The prey might have also included the then prevalent Tasmanian Emu, however this species was hunted to extinction around 1850, and links are not a hundred percent proven. The decline of the native emu in Tasmania may also have contributed to the decline of the Tasmanian Wolf.

Answer 3

The Tasmanian wolf was more properly known as the Thylacine, and sometimes the Tasmanian tiger. This animal (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was a carnivorous marsupial, or dasyurid. It fed on native animals such as wallabies, wombats, possums, birds and other prey smaller than itself.

The Thylacine/ Tasmanian wolf/ Tasmanian tiger sometimes scavenged for food, and was known to feed on the carcasses of rabbits and wallabies.

Some studies have concluded that the animal may have hunted in small family groups, with the main group herding prey in the general direction of an individual waiting in ambush. However, scientific and fossil evidence indicates the Thylacine, was a solitary animal that lived and hunted alone.

The Thylacine became extinct during the 20th century. The last known specimen died in the Hobart Zoo on 7 September 1936. It was hunted to extinction after a bounty was placed on it as a livestock killer.

Answer 4

The Tasmanian tiger, more correctly known as the Thylacine, was a carnivorous marsupial, or dasyurid. It fed on native animals such as wallabies, wombats, possums, birds and other prey smaller than itself.

The Thylacine sometimes scavenged for food, and was known to feed on the carcasses of rabbits and wallabies.

Answer 5

The food of the Tasmanian wolf, more correctly known as the Thylacine (or even the Tasmanian tiger), occupied the same habitat as the thylacine itself. The habitat of the thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was open bushland such as dry eucalypt forest or grasslands or even open wetlands.

Answer 6

The correct name for the Tasmanian wolf is Thylacine.

Also known as the Tasmanian tiger (and not to be confused with the Tasmanian devil), this was a dasyurid, or carnivorous marsupial, and at the top of the food chain. It had no predators.

Answer 7

The habitat of the Tasmanian wolf, more properly known as the Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, was open bushland such as dry eucalypt forest or grasslands or even open wetlands.

From the time of European settlement, the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, was only known on the Australian island state of Tasmania. However, fossil evidence from a long time ago indicates they once also lived on the Australian mainland and in New Guinea.

The last known thylacine died in the Hobart Zoo in September 1936.

Answer 8

The Tasmanian wolf, more properly known as the Thylacine, was a carnivorous marsupial (it is now extinct). The Thylacine hunted other mammals such as wombats and wallabies, eating only freshly killed creatures. Unlike the Tasmanian devil, the Thylacine never fed off old carcasses. The Thylacine was also known to hunt birds.

Answer 9

• they eat herbivores animals.