 easily distinguished by his straight, unjointed tail. It was also a carnivore that preyed on farmers' sheep. Recalling the fate of the Wolf of the American West around the same time, the local government paid out bounties to hunters presenting carcasses. By the mid-1930s, the Tassie tiger population had dwindled to one, captive at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo, where it died in 1936.