Tasmanian Tiger.

 I did a post on the Tasmania Tiger in 2016, this one or post is different, plus many new followers since then and of course some have moved on for various reasons.

The Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian wolf now extinct and has been for many a year was native to the Australian mainland and the Island of Tasmania and New Guinea.

Between 1888 and 1909, the Tasmanian government paid a bounty of 1 pound for every full-grown Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) killed.  For a juvenile or pup they paid 10 shillings.

More than 2,180 government bounties were paid between those years. It's estimated that at least 3,500 thylacines were killed by hunters between 1830 and the 1920s through both government and private bounty schemes. 

The last known thylacine was killed in the wild in 1930, and the species was officially declared protected in July 1936, just months before the last known individual died in captivity.

The Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) did not migrate to Tasmania, they were already present across Australia when the island separated from the mainland about 12,000 year ago.  They survived in Tasmania because the Bass Strait prevented the arrival of competition from dingoes, which likely wiped them out on the mainland around 3,000 years ago.

The Tasmanian tiger was blamed for killing the sheep, poultry and other animals.

A short video showing the Tiger.

The Mall

A few photos of the Mall in the City of Launceston and those little creatures that some people fall over.

Those statues or whatever you call them are sculptures of Tasmanian Tigers now extinct. There were even smaller ones in the same area but they have been removed because people has been tripping over them, now the ones shown in the photos they are to be removed too and all taken to the Civic Square where they will be placed up higher so no one trips over them.