There are no other tigers here. We are on the east side of the Wallace Line so our flora and fauna differs from Java and Sumatra.
It does look small in that pic, and it looks more canine than feline. We have our share of yucky dangerous things including death adders, crocodiles, cassowaries and feral pigs.
Are you allowed to pack heat in Papua?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
that extinct animal is a thylacine, a marsupial...
“...Thylacinus cynocephalus, Greek for “dog-headed pouched one”) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped back) or the Tasmanian wolf.[6] Native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, it is thought to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its family, Thylacinidae; specimens of other members of the family have been found in the fossil record dating back to the early Miocene...