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Australia | Tasmanian devils reintroduced to mainland after absence of 3,000 years

Writer: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

It’s been 3,000 years since the Tasmanian devil’s raspy shriek rang through the forests of mainland Australia. But now, thanks to a dogged reintroduction effort, 26 of these endangered tiny terrors have returned.


No bigger than a lapdog, these marsupials are famous for their ferocity and powerful jaws, which can reduce large carcasses to smithereens in minutes. But in the 1990s, the species was hit with a contagious and deadly mouth cancer, causing its only remaining wild population, on the Australian island state of Tasmania, to drop to just 25,000 animals.


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/10/tasmanian-devils-return-to-mainland-australia/

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