GREATER GLIDER POEM

The female glider’s pouch
can be seen from below
as she soars through the air. 
The infant Rides on
its mother’s back after leaving the pouch. 
Soon it learns how to travel from tree to tree. 
But it doesn’t really fly. 
It Glides through the air
Much like a kite.

Text: Geraldine Sherman, Animals With Pouches – The Marsupials, New York, Holiday House, 1978.

NO HUMAN CAN HARM THEM (TASMANIAN TIGER)

     

The Tasmanian tiger’s scientific name, Thylacinus cynophalus, means “pouched dog with a wolf head.”  It is not a tiger, a dog or a wolf.  But it is a bit like all of them put together.  Like a tiger, it has stripes.  It runs on tiptoes as dogs do.  It looks rather like a wolf.  At one time these animals were heavily  hunted. Most of them were killed.  Nobody is sure if any are still alive.  It is thought that a few may be safely living in a place where no human can harm them.

Text: Geraldine Sherman, Animals With Pouches – The Marsupials, New York, Holiday House, 1978.

Top Photo:  Petryoglyph image of Tasmanian tiger, ca. 1000 B.C., Ubirr, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.

Bottom Photo:  The last known Tasmanian Tiger, "Benjamin," photographed at Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, in 1933.

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