Deseret News: It’s been 3,000 years since Tasmanian devils have lived in the wild on mainland Australia. But now, they’re making a comeback, according to CNN.
Eleven of the endangered marsupials were released into a wildlife sanctuary north of Sydney last month, CNN reported. In March, a trial run of 15 Tasmanian devils were successfully released before the new group was released in September.
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth and his wife, Elsa Pataky, helped the conservation group Aussie Ark to release the Tasmanian devils into the wild, according to People magazine.
Aussie Ark shared a video, which showed Hemsworth and Pataky as they helped to release the Tasmanian devils. read more
The Tiger is the prize.
If they haven’t been there for 3,000 years then maybe they no longer belong there.
We can thank, or blame, the various Acclimation Societies in different countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries for all kinds of problems created by invasive species of plants and animals they introduces all over the place. Such as the American Acclimation Society for thinking it was a great idea to bring European Starlings and House Sparrows to America that drive out native birds. Learned men and the “scientist” of the day were often not as smart as they thought they were. Not much has changed in their win/loss record.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclimatisation_society .
Anyway, 40 years ago driving to Louisville, Ky. to work there for a few weeks, near Lexington I picked up a guy hitchhiking who was from Tasmania. He had spent the previous six months traveling around S. America, and was repeating the same idea in N. America before returning home to do the responsible adult thing.
He had never seen the Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil cartoons, and had a difficult time understanding what the cartoon character looked like, and why the cartoon character was depicted as a devilish tornado when they are rather docile animals and not wolverine-like at all. I suggested before he returned home instead of camping out every night he should splurge some Friday night on a hotel room and catch Saturday morning cartoons.
He also found America very car oriented because he often could see camp sites 20 yards from the road but behind a fence , and had to walk half a mile or more to get to the entrance gate.
Another liberal plan. What could go wrong?
Well, after all, Aussies have solved the problem of paradoxes!
izlamo delenda est …
Anything other than the Looney Tunes depiction of Tasmanian devils is a disappointment.
A Dingo ate my baby!
15 were released?
…well,ONE Tasmanian Devil’s got the blue ballz…
This will end badly.
There is a reason why nature prevented them from living on the mainland 3,000 years ago. But go ahead and screw things up, why don’t you?
Year 7020…Sewer rats which have been extinct for 5000 years have been released back into New York
Sewer systems by progressive conservationist.
^^^ Sewer Ratz were given political positions in the 21st Century!
How’s that re-intro of wolves in ranchland USA been doing?
It would be cool if the T. Devil’s favorite dish were muslim…
Pfft. Release them in Portland, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Chicago …
Do it for Ecology, take the pressure off the local police
Sounds like an insufficient gene pool to start off.
Maybe the ones on the mainland were driven out (meaning killed) by the Aborigines. Maybe they were pests and killed and ate whatever the natives wanted. If they were pests then, they’d be pests now.
Or, maybe the authorities expect them to kill the millions of rabbits that inhabit the country.