Tasmanian tiger: the tragic tale of how the world lost its most mysterious predator.
Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Once the world's largest marsupial predator, the doglike Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) ranged across Australia and as far north as New Guinea. After humans introduced dingoes to the area 4,000 years ago, the misnamed "tiger" was driven..... More