That be Tasmanian devil. Sadly, they've recently been a few deaths of healthy ones after they was released into the wild. Which was the north eastern part of the state and have been run over by humans on the roads. :/

Yea, ive been watching their plight closely they are one of my fave mammals here :C

And yea it's a devastating fact, that road kills tend to draw them out into dangerous situations with cars (and other diseased individuals). Hopefully insurance breeding programs on the mainland (like what this fellow here at Taronga is part of), will help keep the genetic and disease free population varied enough for new attempts at re-establishing wild numbers in the future.

Yea, sadly down here when it comes to the road and locals. Most people don't know how to drive.

And some seem to enjoy creating road kill...

Yes indeed. Tasmanians are pretty bad at not trying to avoid the other animals on the road. But most do try and avoid them. Just a small group don't care, which is really disappointing.

Well its not just wild life, when I am learning to drive, I am worried about some fool, smashing into me.

Still, have you ever had one of these little buggers outside you're window at night?

I've fed a Tasmanian devil at a local wildlife park just north of Hobart. I worked there for a year and helped build enclosures for devils. So yes, I've been quite close with them and heard em. :D

How about at one in the morning, outside your bedroom :p

Well, no. I've not had that before at all. x3

I'll say the smell of dead things greatly increased, when there numbers really declined.

he's a prettyboy :)

never really stopped to look at Tassie devils before, but they're almost as adorable as thylacines were. ^^ if it wasn't for the ellegid viciousness, i'd wanna hug the cutey :)


what i read on yer reply to Darius above, they're endangered? what is it with all the adorably awesome critters dying out D: let's start breeding these bad boys and crazy gals again! :D

Haha yea, they are a relative to the Thylacine (which made them a great subject for me to study, when I was creating a Thylacine character for a project!)

Tassie devils are dying out over a facial tumour which is highly infectious in the wild. Due to their tendencies to squabble over food, and come in contact with each other. Its an extremely rare form of cancer that can be transmitted, and this is causing their population to die out at an alarming rate.

In reaction, there are small breeding colonies being held away from the main population. These could be used as a "insurance" program, for re-release if the wild ones go extinct or need new genetics in the mix.

Here is a good site if you are interested in a more in-depth look into the issue :) http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil.nsf/

appreciate the link. :)

was just donig a bit of reading on the cuties via wiki just to even get an idea on the endangerment level, etc. poor buggers are too social for their own good! (between the social eatings and the constant fighting i read up on there, VERY easy to pass along those kinda diseases too!)

hope that the offland breeding programs prove helpful and able to get them going again. (and hopefully the spreading of the disease won't kill 'em off before that too!)

im sorry...but for the rest of my life when i see one ill always thing of the one from the cartoons

Funny that this would get posted today. I had a dream last night that I watched a commercial or something for a zoo and they had a shot were someone was feeding a living thylacine.
Needless to say, I wish they never got over hunted. :(

Do you have any clue of the crazy sound those things make outside you're bedroom window?

Or what's left of a sheep?

lol, I do :p

I do actually :P Well, not the sheep leftovers. But to be honest, while I am not a sheep farmer...I'd prefer to see the loss of a couple of livestock than an entire species XD

A bit of a spine and a tone of wool, we only had a few sheep, lol.

The thing is the devils were good at getting read of dead animals, and when there numbers began to, well, when they prity much died off, you could tell.