Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, a Tasmanian Devil is seen suffering from a deadly disease that is driving the carnivorous marsupial toward possible extinction. Researchers estimate the wild population has fallen from 140,000 in the 1990s to 80,000 due to Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD), a mystery illness that creates grotesque tumors on the animals' snouts that lead to starvation within a year.
No comments:
Post a Comment