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   ocr: features develop separately in different species. The Tasmanian wolf evolved into a form comparable to members of the dog family because it filled much the same ecological niche in lasmania as true dogs do in their environments. The extinction of the Tasmanian wolf is attributable solely to activities of human beings. In the nineteenth century, when lasmania encouraged agriculture, the Tasmanian wolf was considered a threat 0 to livestock, and bounty hunters were paid twenty-tive cents per scalp as part of a concerted, and successtul, effort to eliminate the animal. It was soon hunted to extin ...