The document summarizes information about the thylacine, a now-extinct marsupial that used to live in Tasmania. Key details include: it had stripes and a brownish base color; females had a backward-facing pouch; they were nocturnal hunters that would kill other marsupials at night and feed from a single fresh kill; the reasons for their extinction included the arrival of humans, dogs, dingoes, loss of habitat to farming/grazing, and bounty hunters who were paid to kill them.

2. • The stripes started way down the back
and extended to the tail, and were
believed to be for camouflage.
• The base colour of the animal was
brownish.
• Its tail was very straight more like a thin
Kangaroos tail.
• The female has a backward facing pouch

3. • Originally thought to roam all over the
mainland of Australia.
• The Thylacine was found in open forest
and scrubland close to its grazing prey of
wallabies etc and close to the protection of
forests
• They were a nocturnal creature sleeping
by day in the safety of dense vegetation

4. • They were a nocturnal hunters ,hunting
other marsupials at night .
• It would use its wide opening jaws to rip
out its preys neck and feed only once from
the fresh kill.

5. The reason the Thylacine became extinct is many
fold Below is some of the reasons :
• The arrival of Native aborigines with their dogs.
• The arrival of the dingo from mainland Australia.
• The arrival of European settlers.
• The loss of habitat due to farming and grazing.
• Protection of their sheep etc.
• Bounty hunters reaping Government payment
for dead "Tigers“.

6. • The Thylacines it seemed bred once a
year, with the young being carried in
their mothers backward facing pouch,
which had 4 teats.
• After approximately 6-8 months the
young now too big for the pouch were
left alone in a sheltered place whilst
their mother went for food.