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  • Thylacine was always going to die off

    09/17/2007 1:35:11 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 20 replies · 359+ views
    The Sunday Tasmanian ^ | September 16, 2007 | MICHAEL STEDMAN
    THE long-held belief Tasmanian tigers killed livestock is being challenged. Using advanced computer modelling, an Australian research team has found that, while strong-jawed, the thylacine would have had trouble killing and eating prey any larger than itself. From about 1830 until 1909 the Tasmanian Government paid a 1-a-head bounty,