Tiger Quoll By Mathew and Blake
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Name
The scientific name for the Tiger Quoll is Pasyurus Maculatus . The Tiger Quolls jaw is on a 90 degrees. It is thought to be a relative to the Tasmanian Devil. The breeding seasons for the Tiger Quoll is in Autumn and Winter. |
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L0cation The Tiger Quoll is located in New South Wales, Victoria, South East Queensland and Tasmania. They also live in thick wood lands and in forests. The Tiger Quoll spends most of its time on the floor of sclerophyll and rainforests.
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Food "The Tiger Quoll is a hunter of a variety of prey, including birds and their young, rats and other small terrestrial ,the arboreal mammals, gliding possums, small micro pods, reptiles and arthropods. The Tiger Quoll will eat anything up to medium sized mammals [500g to 5kg]. |
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Identification
The Tiger Quoll has white spots, and is reddish brown in colour with cream coloured fur under neath its body. It is one of the largest flesh eating marsupials. Females have a backward opening pouch with six teats. Relatives The Quoll is related to the Tasmanian Devil so it has jaws that have a gape of around 120 degrees. It has a large wet nose like the Devil too.
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Skeletal System
A Spotted -tailed Quoll' s front paw has five toes each with a long claw. Its back paw has a very small clawless first toe and four larger toes with long claws. Quolls have three kinds of teeth. One canine tooth on each side of the jaw. Three incisors on each side. Also six molars on each side. |
