Terrier
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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I am lucky enough to be involved on a voluntary basis in the "Save the Devil" Program. This 100% volunteer funded project has been put together to maintain a genetically diverse captive breeding program due to the prevalence of "Devil Facial Tumour Disease". Without going to much into it, it is the only known form of contagious cancer, is usually fatal and is confined to Tas Devils. The people I work with currently have two females and are programmed to get a (hopefully fertile) male in the next week or so.
This is Chime and Miranda, despite their fearsome reputation and immensely powerful jaws the girls are mainly shy and nocturnal.
They can also be a bit nosy at times, Miranda regularly climbs to the highest point of her enclosure and watches the world go by.
They really are amazing little creatures, but the noises they make when feeding can only be described as the stuff nightmares are made of, it is of little wonder, the early settlers, seeing fleeting shadows in the bush and hearing these guttural and often ear piercing growls and screams, named them "Devils".
Cheers all.
This is Chime and Miranda, despite their fearsome reputation and immensely powerful jaws the girls are mainly shy and nocturnal.
They can also be a bit nosy at times, Miranda regularly climbs to the highest point of her enclosure and watches the world go by.
They really are amazing little creatures, but the noises they make when feeding can only be described as the stuff nightmares are made of, it is of little wonder, the early settlers, seeing fleeting shadows in the bush and hearing these guttural and often ear piercing growls and screams, named them "Devils".
Cheers all.