Tasmanian Devil
Addison Wargo Period 3 5/16/16
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- seconded largest marsupial of the living carnivorous marsupials
- endangered
- can eat up to 5 to 10 percent of their body weight
- not very dangerous to people but will defend itself
- McKimson, an animator, illustrator and director for Warner Brothers, based his ‘Looney Tunes’ character Taz on the real-life carnivorous nature and voracious appetite of the Tasmanian Devil
- Tasmanian devil has one of the strongest bites in the animal world: 1200 pounds per square inch, which means that it can bite through the metal trap
- stores fat in its tail
- mostly solitary
- Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) is an aggressive non-viral transmissible parasitic cancer among Tasmanian devils. The first official case of DFTD was described in 1996 in
Tasmanian Devil’s scientific name is Sarcophilus harrisii -it mean Harris’ meat eater
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