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Tasmanian Devil To Be Endangered
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Tasmanian Devil

 

Australia is reported by the AP to list their Tasmanian devil as an endangered species this week. Apparantly there has been a massive outbreak of cancer in the species that has been fast growing and ends up being leathal. The cancer is said to be a head tumor that spreads to the Tasmanian Devil's face, causing it to not be able to eat. They say that the population of this species has been cut by as much as 60 percent!
The facial tumour is extremely unusual in that it is a contagious cancer, spread from devil to devil by biting. The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial carnivore and now only lives in Australia's southern island state.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080519/sc_afp/australiaanimalenvironment de...

 

 

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