Meet "Fern" the new Devil.

[Terrier]

As a follow up to my previous posts we have recently been given another 'Devil', a young ( 3 year old) female who go's by the name of Fern. She has an attitude about her (all bad) and is about six or seven kilo's of pure aggression and extremely quick and agile to boot. But to give her a bit of credit her aggression appears to be 'food motivated', once she gets something to eat she relaxes a bit, although like a domestic dog she will protect her food.

She is also very inquisitive, often climbing to the highest point of her enclosures and surveying the world from over the fence.

This is her doing a 'Meercat' impression.

She may look cute, but don't let her looks fool you.

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Umm, cute would not be my choice of adjectives, lol. Thanks for sharing something we very seldom see here.

 

[Gary A.]

Nice, never can have too many devils. The first image with the very red ears is quite nice. How is the Devil population doing these days?

 

[Terrier]

The Devil population was decimated by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFT) a form of contagious cancer in the early 2000's. The pool for 'Marsupials' is small to begin with, reduce that to just Tasmania only to lose 80% or so to DFT it was feared that there would not be sufficient numbers in the gene pool to sustain a population and they would breed themselves into extinction. They were declared critically endangered.

Smart people got to work and started to import genetics from captive Devils from zoo's and menageries all over the world, lucky for the species they breed well in captivity and they have managed to increase the numbers to a level where although they remain endangered they are no longer classed as critical.

A vaccine has been developed to combat DFT with a very good success rate and vaccinated Devils are being reintroduced into the wild.

Miranda.

 

[The Barbarian]

They all look like they have a chip on their shoulder.

 

[Gary A.]

The Devil population was decimated by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFT) a form of contagious cancer in the early 2000's. The pool for 'Marsupials' is small to begin with, reduce that to just Tasmania only to lose 80% or so to DFT it was feared that there would not be sufficient numbers in the gene pool to sustain a population and they would breed themselves into extinction. They were declared critically endangered.

Smart people got to work and started to import genetics from captive Devils from zoo's and menageries all over the world, lucky for the species they breed well in captivity and they have managed to increase the numbers to a level where although they remain endangered they are no longer classed as critical.

A vaccine has been developed to combat DFT with a very good success rate and vaccinated Devils are being reintroduced into the wild.

Miranda.

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That is certainly good news. Thanks for the update.

 

[Jeff15]

Nice Devil.......................