The sheep-killer myth that helped drive the Tasmanian tiger to extinction and why scientists think farmers got it wrong |
For decades, the Tasmanian tiger was portrayed as Australia’s most feared livestock predator. Farmers blamed it for dead sheep, newspapers described it as a menace to agriculture, and the Tasmanian government eventually paid cash rewards for its destruction. By the time the last known thylacine died at Hobart Zoo in September 1936, the species had…


