The Last Tasmanian Tiger : The History and Extinction of the Thylacine

Robert Paddle
Cambridge University Press
9780521531542
0-521-53154-3

This insightful examination of the history and extinction of one of Australia's most enduring folkloric beasts--the thylacine, (or Tasmanian tiger)-- challenges conventional theories. It argues that rural.

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politicians, ineffective political action by scientists, and a deeper intellectual prejudice about the inferiority of marsupials actually resulted in the extinction of this once proud species. Hb ISBN (2000):0-521-78219-8