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Sacrophilus Tasmanii (devilkin)

His mystical name he has got obtained on the basis of its sweeping and hoarse voice during scoffing, familiarly  the tuck-ins. (the noisy communal eating which often can be heard several kilometers away, throughout Tasmanian bush.) Most visitors to the Tasmanian bush stand a very good chance of hearing him. His prey (carcasses) usually used to be torn out into pieces and that also by 10 little “beasts” of an animal clan “The Devil” at once. Tasmanian Devils will eliminate all traces of a carcass as they devour all bones and fur in addition to the meat and innards of a carcass. Until the end of 1 hour  the devils are able to “scoff ”  1/3 of their own weight.   ..(they ´re really fatter, greater  than the dogs…!)    All these facts have earned a gratitude from the side of Tasmanian farmers, as the speed, at which they clean the carcass, helps prevent the spreading of insects that might otherwise harm “farmer's livestock”.

The life of those predators has never been  easy.   They have got protected by law only since 1941. Until this year these animals have been considered as a “noxious animal”  and were very often killed,   also because of there soon reproduction.  Approximately 15 years ago it came to a serious exchange in the life and the fate of this animal, when a serious malicious  “sarcoma facial cancer” (a cancer being found around his muzzle...) hit “the Devils' ” population.         Little is known about the virus, notwithstanding the fact it is assumed to be a retrovirus.  Unfortunately, Tasmanian Devils suffering from a facial sarcoma virus spread by a retrovirus usually end their lives lethally. (exitus-the Latin termin.) On the other hand there is a hope for this population,  as it has been observed, that the young “ Tasmanian Sacrophiluses”  are not susceptible to an illness. But the factum remains,   that the population of the mature animals since an outbreak of this type of cancer (1995) has got unsure…

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A speed during his prey´s chase is app.13 Km/h.