DftD is very contagious. When the cancer has destroyed the animal in his mouth filling with tumors that make it impossible to eat the animal. Hunger and death within three to six months. The transmission is easy, because often vicious bite each other on the mouth during mating or in the fight for territory.
No treatment or vaccine exists DftD to try, despite intensive research, to stop the spread of the disease. He appeared in 13 different mutated strains, according to a report by Sky News.
Currently, the only animals hope to isolate disease-free captive populations. Some of these shrines were built in recent years. The last of them is not even on the island of Tasmania: The 500-acre Devil's Ark Barrington Tops opens this week in the Australian continent, and could eventually accommodate up to 1,000 demons. The first 15-5 men and 10 women to the new site preservation arrived Tuesday.
Devil's Ark founder John Weigel said the Newcastle Herald that only the first stage of the project has been funded, and more money will be needed to keep running and build more housing for additional devil. The first $ 350,000 to fund the program was allocated by the Australian Government Save the Tasmanian Devil program, including grants to two programs in Tasmania.
Australia Healesville, 65 km from Melbourne, has been one of the largest captive population of Tasmanian devils, with 66 healthy volunteers (DftD free) animals. The sanctuary has increased by 24 births Devil in the last year and expects its population to 120 animals in 2012. The devil on the site are all housed in, although the Housing larger, free-range will be built.
''If we keep the diversity of the breeding and care of these guys their genetic heritage, we hope to be able to,''they release back to Tasmania for a day,''Healesville of Annalise McLeish stated age. If they will do in the wild have disappeared, the idea that they can go into captivity, and the population is operational again.''
Hopefully.
Image: Tasmanian devil tumor disease afflicted with the devil face on Wikipedia
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