The Devil’s Endangered!
– – When you think of large carnivorous marsupials, you probably just naturally think of the Tasmanian devil, best known as the spinning tornado of destruction Taz in the Looney Tunes cartoons.- -Well, the genuine article’s in danger, and not from being outwitted by Bugs Bunny…
…60 percent of the wild devils in Tasmania have been claimed in a single decade by a cancer known as devil facial tumor disease. By some estimates, the animals could be extinct within 25 years. One colony in northwestern Tasmania has shown immunity to the disease, for which there is currently no treatment. As this may not be enough to save the species, zoos are critical to devil conservation, and 14 zoos are endeavoring to breed 1,500 disease-free animals. Trouble is, only 24 devil joeys have been bred since the program began in 2008…
(…so obviously, we need more horny devils!)
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July 7, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Maybe their drinking water could be laced with agglutinated hair tonic.*
* “…he said, making a politically incorrect reference to the preceding article.”
July 8, 2010 at 12:08 am
Or we could bring in more Tasmanian She-Devils!–Always worked for Bugs!