Queensland tiger
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Sub grouping | eastern Australia |
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Region | Queensland |
In
Also known by a native name, yarri,
History
The earliest documented witness reports of a Queensland marsupial tiger date from 1871,[1] with indigenous traditions of the yarri preceding these.
I learned that on the summit of the Coast Mountains, before mentioned, there lived two varieties of mammals which seemed to me to be unknown to science: but I had much difficulty in acquiring this knowledge. One of the animals [the local Aborigines] called yarri. From their description I conceived it to be a marsupial tiger. It was said to be about the size of a dingo, though its legs were shorter and its tail long, and it was described ... as being very savage. If pursued it climbed up the trees, where the natives did not dare follow it, and by gestures they explained to me how at such times it would growl and bite their hands. Rocky retreats were its most favourite habitat, and its principal food was said to be in a little brown variety of wallaby common in Northern Queensland scrubs. Its flesh was not particularly appreciated ... and if they accidentally killed a yarri they gave it to their old women. In Western Queensland I heard much about an animal which seemed to me to be identical with the yarri here described, and a specimen was once nearly shot by an officer of the black police in the regions I was now visiting [Herbert River].[2]
Lumholtz goes on to contrast the description of this animal with a leaf-eating species recognisable as a tree kangaroo, possibly that now known as Lumholtz's
Reports have come consistently from the Northeast of Queensland[citation needed], and indicate a fast and agile creature (Welfare & Fairley, 1981).[3]
Though these have diminished in number since the 1950s, they have continued (the Beast of
Thylacoleo, an animal of similar size and predatory habits, did live in
Thylacine or Thylacoleo?
In his 1965 revision of the book Furred Animals of Australia, Ellis Troughton proposed that the Queensland tiger was merely a mainland variant of the thylacine. When discussing sightings of the Queensland tiger or animals thought to be the Queensland tiger, people sometimes refer to them as thylacines, though there are distinct and consistent differences in the descriptions of the animals (i.e.: head shape, position and colour of stripes,
While
In popular culture
The theory of continued Thylacoleo presence on mainland Australia and thylacine presence in Tasmania has been covered on various Television shows including an episode of
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-86429-081-3.
- ^ a b Lumholtz, Carl (1889). Among cannibals ; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland. p. 102.
- ISBN 9780891042686.
- ^ Mitchell, Bruce; Balogh, Suzanne (2007). "Monitoring techniques for vertibrate pests: Feral cats" (PDF). NSW Department of Primary Industries. p. 7. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ @delwp.vic.gov.au, biodiversity.regulation (30 January 2020). "Feral cat declaration". Victoria Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.
- ^ @environment.nsw.gov.au, info (29 July 2018). "Past animals : Feral cats". NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.
- ^ @sa.gov.au, nrmbiosecurity. "Animal pests of South Australia : What you need to know" (PDF). Biosecurity SA. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ Trivedi, Bijal (5 March 2004). "Extinct Australian "Lion" Was Big Biter, Expert Says". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 7 March 2004. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ISBN 0-330-27499-6.
- ^ "Qld: mysterious creature roams Cape York". Australian Associated Press General News. 2 July 2003.