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Sympathy for the devils

The carnivorous little creature has suffered one of the most precipitous population declines ever documented. In 15 years, the devil -- once just as common in Tasmania as raccoons currently are across North America -- has become an endangered species . The threat to the devil is unprecedented; not loss of habitat, not hunting pressure, but a disease. And not just any disease, but an infectious tumor .  

"Devil facial tumor disease has been a devastating, ongoing problem," said Menna Jones professor of zoology at the University of Tasmania in Australia. "We've had no good news since the first we learned of the existence of this disease."

No good news, that is, until now. As the disease has spread to the northwest corner of the island state of Tasmania, it has encountered a new population of devils. And the disease itself has changed. The result, as Jones' recent paper, published online by Conservation Biology , reports, is that the disease has stalled out in the west. Fewer devils are developing tumors and the ones that do are living longer.  

The disease kills every devil it infects, and it has spread inexorably, from devil to devil, from the northeast throughout the island of Tasmania. In affected locations, only one of 10 devils remains. There is evidence that the lone remaining devil moved in only after all the others died. Efforts to stop the disease, by removing infectious individuals or by vaccination, have all failed. The last hope has been to isolate healthy devils in reserves as an insurance population, with plans to reintroduce them after the disease has burned itself out.  

Researchers consider this to be a very serious "epizootic" -- the animal equivalent of an epidemic. The impact goes beyond the potential extinction of an iconic animal. The Tasmanian devil is a top predator. They keep invasive feral cats and foxes in check. Cats and foxes are largely responsible for the extinction of over 20 species of mammals in mainland Australia. In Tasmania, some of those affected species still exist in the wild, like the Eastern Quoll, the Pademelon, and the Bettong. But without the devils around, the last of these species would likely fall to cats and foxes.  

This has seemed inevitable, until now.  

"The population (in western Tasmania) is declining, but slowly, slower than it did in the east. And the devils are living with the tumor much longer -- it used to be that devils in the east with tumors would die within 3-6 months.  In the west some are living with the tumors for 18 months," said Jones.

85 Sanger Bubbledeck w/BBC

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The selected papers of Margaret Sanger

Selected papers of Frederick Sanger, with commentaries

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