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Scientific Name
Habitat
Range: off the coast of southern Australia
Diet
Physical Description Size, Weight, Length
Breeding Info
Special Behaviors or Unique Anatomical features
Weird Info
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Conclusion
3. Scientific Name
Scientific Name: Sarcophilus harrisii
The sense of smell is exceptionally acute enabling
the animals to locate dead food items from many
kilometres away.
4. Habitat
The Tasmanian devil prefers wet sclerophyll forest
or woodland. It usually lives in a log, cave or the
disused burrow of another animal, emerging at
night to scavenge and forage.
6. Diet
Despite its formidable reputation, most of the diet
comprises carrion.
Adult devils will tackle anything as large as a small
wallaby but they are by no means an agile or
speedy hunter.
7. Physical Description
Size, Weight, Length
The male Tasmanian devil will attain a total length
of around 90cm including the tail and weigh over
8kg. A distinctive black, or very dark brown, with a
white band across the chest.
Females rarely exceed 80cm in length and 6kg in
weight. The head is dog-like and the ears are large
and pinkish-red in colour.
8. Breeding Info
Tasmanian devils are sexually mature at the age
of two years.
Their mating period is within the months of March
and April.
The mother gives birth to two to four young, which
attach to the teats in her pouch.
9. Special Behaviors or Unique
Anatomical features
The Tasmanian devil is solitary but not territorial,
with a home range of up to 20 square kilometres in
size that may overlap with the ranges of several
others.
Several adults may congregate
at a carcass and feed together,
although much squabbling and
growling usually takes place.
10. Weird Info
The Tasmanian Devil is also called the Native
Devil.
They have bad eye sight and walk rather clumsily.
They see in black and white.
