What does the 'Tasmanian wolf' eat?

The Tasmanian Wolf, also known as Tasmanian Tiger or Tassie Tiger, 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 though 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 may also have contributed to the decline of the Tasmanian Wolf.

During the 20^th century, the Tasmanian Wolf was thought to be primarily a blood drinking, although there is little reference made to this claim now and it seems to have originated from a single second hand account.

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