“TASMANIAN TIGER”
“FINCJERPHINTS” SOUGHT HOBART, Nov. 12. "Fingerprints” of the “Tasmanian Tiger" will be sought by the expedition which will leave Hobart to-mor-row for the western part of Tasmania in search of one of the rarest and most primitive of Australian marsupials. The Tasmanian. Thylacine. as it is known to science, was once common throughout the island, but is now conlined to the most remote places. An effort will be made to preserve it from extinction, and one of the objects of the expedition is to determine bow many of the animals are still alive, and the district which they inhabit in greatest numbers. The expedition is. being organised by the Tasmanian Animal and Birds Protection Board, and accompanying' it will be a police trooper equipped with material for making casts of the animals’ footprints if any arc found. By this means it is hoped to determine the number of animals inhabiting a particular area.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19795, 24 November 1938, Page 10
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