Mallards (Wetland Animals Series) Book

I really like the premise of this book. I think it's important to educate children about endangered species, habitat destruction and the dangers of feral animals. This book starts with the long extinct dinosaurs, then moves on to extinct birds such as the dodo and moa. It was in the endangered species chapter that our author (and illustrator) come a-cropper with some rather egregious errors that are very obvious to even a casual Australian reader. A Tasmanian Devil is not the same as a Tasmanian Tiger, they are rather fearsome, and I've never heard of anyone having them as a pet despite the authors claim that ""when raised by humans they can make good pets."" The illustrator has clearly drawn two pictures depicting Tasmanian Tigers, not Devils. And although this book is relatively recent (2005) there is no mention of the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease that is the biggest threat to the survival of this species. The confusion continues when we get to the Thylacine, which is said to be aka Tasmanian Wolf. I've never heard it refered to as such, although I just checked wikipaedia and it has the reference. There is no picture of a thylacine possibly because the illustrator has already made thylacines into devils? All quite confusing. However I did learn that we have a National Thylacine Day (Sept 7 for those who didn't know like me) to commemorate the death of the last known Thylacine in Hobart zoo on 7 Sept 1936. The rest of the book seems ok, but it's impossible not to have doubts about the facts in the rest of it when the Tasmanian stuff is so wrong.