Tiger Quoll Sighting
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 8th, 2012
In Victoria, Australia, some one forgetting to put out their trash cans has resulted in the first confirmed sighting of a critically endangered marsupial in over a decade. The Otway Ranges are a known habitat of the carnivorous marsupial the Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), but for the past ten years no one’s been able to confirm if it was still alive in the wild. (The Great Otway National Park is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 162 km southwest of Melbourne.)
Here the interview about the sighting and the “roar” of the Tiger Quoll on Radio Australia, here.
Tiger Quoll Distribution: Dasyurus maculatus gracilis (yellow, NE) and Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (red, SE).
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This is *awesome* news, Loren!!
It still seems crazy to me that these creatures, amongst others, could benefit greatly from captive breeding programs yet the environmentalist (and their numbers is government wildlife management dept’s) movement has steadfastly refused to even consider it.
davidk:
“It still seems crazy to me that these creatures, amongst others, could benefit greatly from captive breeding programs yet the environmentalist (and their numbers is government wildlife management dept’s) movement has steadfastly refused to even consider it.”
Not necessarily questioning this, but can I have a list of your references please?
Tiger Quoll. Interesting. Looks and sounds like it is closely related to the Tasmanian Devil. Hate to get one riled up.
In this case, no physical type specimen is needed: camera traps out the wazoo in the regions where the Tiger Quoll is said to roam should do the trick in getting major academic and Government recognition. Plus the species is obviously almost extinct, and perhaps now is coming back from the brink, albeit slowly.
Not that I know much about Tiger Quolls, but some species of animals do not breed in captivity. Among mammals, the thylacine was a good example and there are countless species of birds like the passenger pigeon and carolina parakeet.
Hello Corrick in the past that may have been a problem but today they can artificially intimidate oops I mean inseminate if they have a male and female of the species in working order.
David-Australia in the US we have the crazy case of the Spotted Owl. Back in the 80s there was a big uproar about them dying out which led to what I think was called the 1990 Endangered Species Act. So what happened is that areas that were previously engaged in logging were shut down and man moved out. So in the last 25 years the Spotted Owl population has decreased another 40% and now the government geniuses are going to kill off Barred Owls as the new enemy. It makes no sense. In California there is a breeding program for the California Condor that has worked out fairly well that started in 1985 about the same time that Spotted Owl became a cause.
@David-Australia
Should have made it clearer, I’m referring to private (as in wildlife scheduled lic private) and not those programs conducted by zoos and fauna parks. See, for example, http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/103510/Taxa_-_Basic.pdf