The Thylacine, thought to be extinct, was a wolf living on which island?
"in 1933, and sent to the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years. The thylacine died on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night. This thylacine features in the last known motion picture footage of a living specimen: 62 seconds of black-and-white footage showing the thylacine in its enclosure in a clip taken in 1933, by naturalist David Fleay. In the film footage, the thylacine"
"continent, but it survived on the island of Tasmania along with several other endemic species, including the Tasmanian devil. Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributing factors may have been disease, the introduction of dogs, and human encroachment into its habitat. Despite its official classification as extinct, sightings are still reported, though none has been conclusively proven. The last known thylacine, named Benjamin, died at the Hobart Zoo, on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to"
"Falkland Islands wolf The Falkland Islands wolf (""Dusicyon australis""), also known as the warrah ( or ) and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. This endemic canid became extinct in 1876, the first known canid to have become extinct in historical times. It was the only modern species in the genus ""Dusicyon"". Traditionally it had been supposed that the most closely related genus was ""Lycalopex"", including the culpeo, which has been introduced to the Falkland Islands in modern times. However, in 2009, a cladistic"
"Gondwana, 50 million years ago. The island of Tasmania was home to the thylacine, a marsupial which resembled a fossa or some say a wild dog. Known colloquially as the Tasmanian tiger for the distinctive striping across its back, it became extinct in mainland Australia much earlier because of competition by the dingo, introduced in prehistoric times. Owing to persecution by farmers, government-funded bounty hunters and, in the final years, collectors for overseas museums, it appears to have been exterminated in Tasmania. The Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in"
"analysis of DNA identified the Falkland Island wolf's closest living relative as the maned wolf (""Chrysocyon brachyurus"")—an unusually long-legged, fox-like South American canid, from which it separated about 6.7 million years ago. The Falkland Islands wolf existed on both West and East Falkland, but Charles Darwin was uncertain if they were differentiated varieties. Its fur had a tawny colour and the tip of the tail was white. Its diet is unknown, but, due to the absence of native rodents on the Falklands, probably consisted of ground-nesting birds such as geese and penguins, seal pups, and insects, as well as seashore"
"on the nearby islands of Gardiner and Champion). When Charles Darwin visited the island in 1835, he found no sign of its native tortoise and assumed that whalers, pirates, and human settlers had wiped them out. Since about 1850, no tortoises have been found on the island (except for one or two introduced animals kept as pets by the locals), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature classified the Floreana tortoise (""Chelonoidis elephantopus"" sometimes called ""Chelonoidis nigra"") as extinct. However, it may be that there are pure Floreana tortoises living on other islands in the archipelago. Isla Floreana is"
"today. The island featured in local mythos as the place where a local lighthouse keeper's cat, named Tibbles, was claimed to have caused the extinction of Lyall's wren in 1894. However, this belief was erroneous, an urban legend. While this cat did kill one of the last birds seen, a few more specimens were obtained in the following years, by which time the island also hosted numerous feral cats, and the island was only the last refuge of the bird, which had become extinct on the mainland many centuries earlier due to Polynesian rat predation. Today, the best known residents"
"from Catalonia. The only inhabitants were a sub-species of wild goat but these were slaughtered by the local government in 2016 to protect the fauna of the island. There is also a sub-species of the Ibizan wall lizard on the island. It is also home to a colony of the endangered bird of prey called Eleonora's falcon. The island is said to be home to sirens and sea-nymphs, who tried to lure Odysseus from his ship in Homer’s ""Odyssey"". It is also thought of as the holy island of the Tanit the Phoenician lunar goddess, worshiped as the patron goddess"
"platypus have also been discovered in South America. The repeated lowering of sea levels during the ice ages of the Pleistocene facilitated the movement of many species more, including the five species of rodent and eight species of bat. The island of Tasmania was home to the thylacine, a marsupial which resembled a wild dog. Known colloquially as the Tasmanian tiger for the distinctive striping across its back, it became extinct in mainland Australia about 4,000 years ago because of competition by the introduced dingo. Owing to persecution by farmers, government-funded bounty hunters and, in the final years, collectors for"
"chemistry professor, JLB Smith, confirmed the fish's importance with a famous cable: ""MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED"". Far more recent possible or presumed extinctions of species which may turn out still to exist include the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger (""Thylacinus cynocephalus""), the last known example of which died in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1936; the Japanese wolf (""Canis lupus hodophilax""), last sighted over 100 years ago; the ivory-billed woodpecker (""Campephilus principalis""), last sighted for certain in 1944; and the slender-billed curlew (""Numenius tenuirostris""), not seen since 2007. As long as species have been evolving, species"
"otters every evening. In regard to canids, there are no foxes on the island, although it has been suggested that the name ""Ulva"" - wolf isle - meant that wolves lived on the island in the Norse period. There is only one known kind of reptile on the island, the pseudo-snake slowworm, but no true snakes have been reported. The name ""Ormaig"", however, is probably a corruption of the Norse ""Ormrsvi"", which means ""bay of the worm"" - this may refer to a snake. Cetaceans that can be seen in the surrounding waters include minke whales, porpoises, dolphins, and pilot"
"back to 23 million years ago. This thylacinid was much smaller than its more recent relatives. The largest species, the powerful thylacine (""Thylacinus potens"") which grew to the size of a wolf, was the only species to survive into the late Miocene. In late Pleistocene and early Holocene times, the modern thylacine was widespread (although never numerous) throughout Australia and New Guinea. An example of convergent evolution, the thylacine showed many similarities to the members of the dog family, Canidae, of the Northern Hemisphere: sharp teeth, powerful jaws, raised heels and the same general body form. Since the thylacine filled"
"devil, as a scavenger with a short life span, was highly sensitive to this. In dingo-free Tasmania, carnivorous marsupials were still active when Europeans arrived. The extermination of the thylacine after the arrival of the Europeans is well known, but the Tasmanian devil was threatened as well. Thylacines preyed on devils, and devils attacked thylacine young; devils may have hastened the thylacine's extinction. While the thylacine was extant, apart from hunting devils, it may also have put pressure on the devil for survival, by competing for scarce food and dens; both animals sought caves and burrows. It has been speculated"
"other canids have since been removed to ""Lycalopex"".) Darwin writing about his 1834 visit to the Falklands in his ""Journal and Remarks"" (""The Voyage of the Beagle"") has the following to say of ""Canis antarcticus"": When organising his notes on the last stage of the ""Beagle"" expedition, Darwin wrote of his growing suspicions that the differences between the various Galápagos Islands mockingbirds and tortoises, as well as the possible dissimilarity of West Falkland and East Falkland Islands wolves, were but variants that differed depending on which island they came from: The word ""would"" was added after this passage was first"
"feeding habits, the animal was an opportunistic predator, more like a jackal. The route by which the Falkland Islands wolf was established in the islands was unknown for a long time, as the islands have never been connected to the mainland and there are no other native land mammals. No other oceanic island as remote as the Falklands has a native canid; the island fox of California in the US and Darwin's fox of Chile both inhabit islands much closer to a continent. Berta and other authors suggest that it was unlikely that the wolf's ancestors could have survived the"
"glacial phase. This suggests that there was a shallow strait as narrow as 20 km, which may have frozen completely at times. It seems likely that the founding population of the wolf crossed on this ice bridge during the last Ice Age. This would explain the absence of other mainland mammals on the islands; an ice crossing is much more difficult than crossing a land bridge. Locations: Other: Falkland Islands wolf The Falkland Islands wolf (""Dusicyon australis""), also known as the warrah ( or ) and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, or Antarctic wolf, was the"
"the Ice Age, the Falkland Islands may have been joined to the mainland of South America. While Amerindians from Patagonia could have visited the Falklands, The presence of the warrah, ""Dusicyon australis"", has often been cited as evidence of pre-European occupation of the islands. However, in 2009, this hypothesis was disproved when DNA analysis identified the Falkland Island wolf's closest living relative as the maned wolf (""Chrysocyon brachyurus"") – an unusually long-legged, fox-like South American canid, from which it separated about 6.7 million years ago. It would seem that the lineages of the maned wolf and the Falkland Islands wolf"
"animal of similar size and predatory habits, did live in Australia as recently as the late Pleistocene period, perhaps coexisting with the very first humans that arrived at Australia who were the ancestors of modern Australian Aborigines. However, scientists estimate that ""Thylacoleo"" became extinct 30,000 years ago. Modern sightings of an animal described as remarkably like ""Thylacoleo"" have led some researchers to speculate that a small relict population has somehow survived in remote areas. Cryptozoologists who promote the theory of survival of the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine ""Thylacinus cynocephalus"", a Thylacinid, and also currently accepted as extinct, favour proposed survival"
"is considered extinct. The last known specimen, named Lonesome George, died in captivity on 24 June 2012; George had been mated with female tortoises of several other species, but none of the eggs from these pairings hatched. The species inhabiting Floreana Island (""G. nigra"") is thought to have been hunted to extinction by 1850, only 15 years after Charles Darwin's landmark visit of 1835, when he saw shells, but no live tortoises there. The existence of the ""C. phantastica"" species of Fernandina Island is disputed, as it was described from a single specimen that may have been an artificial introduction"
"Dusicyon Dusicyon is an extinct genus of South American canids. The type species is ""Dusicyon australis"", the Falkland Islands wolf. In 1914, Oldfield Thomas established this genus, in which he included the culpeo and other South American foxes. These other canids were removed to ""Lycalopex"" by Langguth in 1975. ""Dusicyon avus"", widely distributed in the late Pleistocene from Uruguay through Buenos Aires Province to southernmost Chile, is the closest known relative of the Falkland Islands wolf; the two lineages split only about 16,000 years ago. It died out in the late Holocene, about 2980 years ago on the island of"
"the first French settlement in 1720. In his November 6, 1721 letter to the French Minister of the Marine, Louis Denys de La Ronde reported that the island was home to wolves ""of a prodigious size"", and sent a wolf pelt back to France to substantiate his claim. As the island was cleared for settlement, the gray wolf population may have been extirpated, or relocated to the mainland across the winter ice: the few subsequent wolf reports date from the mid-nineteenth century and describe the creatures as transient visitors from across the Northumberland Strait. The decline of North American wolf"
"the now-extinct thylacine. More specimens were described in 2014. Thylacinus potens Thylacinus potens (""powerful pouched dog"") was the largest species of the family Thylacinidae, originally known from a single poorly preserved fossil discovered by Michael O. Woodburne in 1967 in a Late Miocene locality near Alice Springs, Northern Territory. It preceded the most recent species of thylacine by 4–6 million years, and was 5% bigger, was more robust and had a shorter, broader skull. Its size is estimated to be similar to that of a grey wolf; the head and body together were around 5 feet long, and its teeth"
"were previously widespread in their native habitat, but were annihilated by excessive hunting. Bernard's wolf Bernard's wolf (""Canis lupus bernardi""), also known as the Banks Island wolf, the Banks Island tundra wolf, and the Victoria Island wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was limited to Banks and Victoria Island of the Canadian Arctic. This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of ""Canis lupus"" in the taxonomic authority ""Mammal Species of the World (2005)"". It went extinct around 1920. The wolf was described as ""white with black-tipped hair along the ridge of the back"". It was formally"
"show the island once had an endemic species of barn owl ""Tyto letocarti""; two extinct hawks, ""Accipiter efficax"", ""Accipiter quartus""; a large, flightless galliform bird, ""Sylviornis neocaledoniae""; a snipe, (""Coenocorypha"" sp.); a gallinule, ""Porphyrio kukwiedei""; the lowland kagu, ""Rhynochetos orarius""; a ground dove, ""Gallicolumba longitarsus""; the pile-builder megapode; a hornbill of Lifou (Loyalty Islands); a possibly extinct lorikeet, ""Charmosyna diadema""; as well as a giant bat, arthropods and others. The island also hosted the giant terrestrial turtle ""Meiolania"", unlike any alive today which was armed with a clubbed tail and a spiked head. There was also a species of terrestrial"
"endangered species. The Flores giant rat is also endemic to the island, and Verhoeven's giant tree rat was formerly present. These giant rodents are considered examples of island gigantism. Flores was also the habitat of several extinct dwarf forms of the proboscidean ""Stegodon"", the most recent (""Stegodon florensis insularis"") disappearing approximately 12,000 years ago and the diminutive ""Homo floresiensis"". It is speculated by scientists that limited resources and an absence of advanced predators made the few megafaunal species that reached the island subject to insular dwarfism. The presence of ""Trigonoceps"" vultures indicates that the island bore mammalian carnivores at some"
"century based on fossils found in 1877 in New South Wales. It has been conjectured that ""S. laniarius"" and ""S. moornaensis"", another now-extinct larger species, may have hunted and scavenged. It is known that there were several genera and species of thylacine millions of years ago, and that they ranged in size, the smaller being more reliant on foraging. As the devil and thylacine are similar, the extinction of the co-existing thylacine species has been cited as evidence for an analogous history for the devils. It has been speculated that the smaller size of ""S. laniarius"" and ""S. moornaensis"" allowed"
"visited the Falklands before the Age of Discovery (the islands are not visible from the mainland, and traveling to the Falklands in open canoes would have been very difficult and extremely dangerous) nor is there any evidence that the ancestors of the wolf were ever domesticated. DNA of the extinct mainland relative, ""D. avus"", analyzed in 2013 suggests that its genetic history diverged from the Falkland Islands wolf only some 16,000 years ago, during the last glacial phase. This is strong evidence that the ancestors of the wolf were isolated on the islands only since the last glacial maximum. A"
"the island. The critically endangered monk seal had a breeding colony here until the 1960s. Once the home of a thriving lobster industry, Tavolara now attracts divers who come to view the coral, sponges, sea anemones, bottlenose dolphins, and even a few specimens of ""Pinna nobilis"", the rare giant clam whose byssus fibers were formerly used in the manufacture of sea silk for royal garments. The island was known in ancient times as Hermea. According to tradition, Pope St. Pontian died on Tavolara following his abdication and exile in 235. It is probably the island previously called Tolar, which was"
"found that Mount Adam was higher. At this, the Argentines transferred the name ""Monte Independencia"" from Mount Robinson to Mount Adam. The major industry on the island is sheep farming, while it is also known for its penguin and cormorant colonies. Fishing is also popular in the two main rivers, the Warrah and the Chartres. In the 19th century as today, indigenous land fauna was very scanty. A small wolf, the warrah, the ""loup-renard"" of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, is extinct, the last having been seen about 1875 on West Falkland. It is commemorated in the name of one of"
"Wolf Island Wolf Island or Wenman Island is a small island in the Galápagos Islands and was named after the German geologist Theodor Wolf, who also has the volcano Wolf on Isabela Island named after him. It has an area of and a maximum altitude of above sea level. The island is remote from the main island group and has no permanent population, the Galápagos National Park does not allow landing on the island, however it is a popular diving location. The group formed by Darwin Island and Wolf was previously known as Culpepper and Wenman. Wolf Island is the"
"Melville Island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada. He wrote that similar wolves could be found on Ellesmere Island. He also attributed the name ""Canis lupus orion"" to a Greenland wolf specimen from Cape York, northwest Greenland. Both wolves are recognized as separate subspecies of ""Canis lupus"" in the taxonomic authority ""Mammal Species of the World (2005)"". One study using autosomal microsatellite DNA and Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data indicate that the Arctic wolf has no unique haplotypes which suggests that its colonization of the Arctic Archipelago from the North American mainland was relatively recent, and thus not sufficient to warrant"
"nearly extirpated with only two severely inbred wolves present. The moose population was about 2/3rd of its historical maximum with ample forage and growing rapidly. Absent a new infusion of migrant wolves, or human intervention, the original situation of a high moose population limited only by starvation is the prospect. However, in December 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) put forward a plan in which they would add 20 to 30 wolves to the island in order to prevent the pack from disappearing completely. In December 2017, Sarah Hoy et al. of Michigan Technological University published results of a 40-year"
"are classified as part of the Antarctic ecozone and Antarctic Floristic Kingdom. Strong connections exist with the flora and fauna of Patagonia in South America. The only terrestrial mammal upon the arrival of Europeans was the warrah, the ""loup-renard"" of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a kind of fox found on both major islands that became extinct in the mid-19th century. Slater suggests that the warrah was introduced into the Falkland Islands either by rafting or by dispersal of glacial ice during one of the glaciations of the late Pleistocene epoch (2.5 million and 15,000 years ago). A total of 14"