This is another card in the new release series by Australia Post of "Native Animals" and this a real favourite of mine The Tasmanian Devil. An unmistakeable character one always thinks of the Walt Disney Character in the cartoons.
The Tasmanian Devil is a carnivorous marsupial of the ( Dasyuridae) family and is now found only in the wild of The Australian State of Tasmania. The size of a small dog The Tasmanian Devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the "Thylacine" (The Tasmanian Tiger ) in 1936 .Some say it still survives (The Thylacine ) in the remote wilderness of Tasmania.. The Tasmanian Devil is characterised by its muscular and stocky build with black and white fur, pungent odour and its extremely and disturbing screech, very keen sense of Smell and its ferocity when feeding. The Tasmanian Devils large head and neck allow it to generate amongst the hardest and strongest bite among any per unit body mass of any extant land based predator it hunts prey and scavenges on carrion. despite its rotund appearance the Devil is capable of surprising speed and endurance and can climb trees and swim across rivers.Since the late 1990's (The devils facial tumour disease ) has drastically reduced the Devils population and now threatens the survival of the species.
Thank you to Wikipedia for info.
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