TASMANIAN DEVILS RETURN TO MAINLAND AUSTRALIA FOR FIRST TIME IN 3000 YEARS
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2020
- Tasmanian Devils are making an Australian mainland comeback with the help of some friends! Actors and friends of WildArk, Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky, helped release 11 Tasmanian Devils, to the wild, on September 10th, bringing the total released Devils to 26. They are among the first Tasmanian Devils to live in the wild on mainland Australia in 3,000 years. The team at Aussie Ark will monitor the marsupials in the 400-hectare wildlife sanctuary in the Barrington Tops through camera traps, radio collars and surveys to check how they are adjusting to life in the wild. The Devils have been given a platform to succeed - so stay tuned for regular updates on their progress and the 2021 breeding season!
Tasmanian devils vanished entirely from mainland Australia, theoretically because they were outcompeted by introduced dingoes, which hunt in packs. Dingoes no longer occur in Aussie Arks protected areas, making it the perfect location for Devils.
Dingoes never made it to Tasmania and the Devils thrived, but the island state, along with its Devils, now has it's own problems. A transmissible, painful and fatal disease called Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD)-one of very few known contagious cancers-has decimated between 80 - 90 percent of the wild population of Tasmanian devils.
Aussie Ark, previously known as Devil Ark, is as committed to the survival of the Devil in Tasmanian as ever. As a part of the mainland disease free insurance population we've bred over 400 joeys some of which have returned to Tasmanian. Now we are embarking on the ambitious opportunity to rewild and rebuild mainland ecosystems.
Aussie Ark is their lifeline! Support Aussie Ark and help rewild Australia!
This sanctuary is the first of many - we have the land, we need your help to rebuild Australia's ecosystems. Rewilding projects, including the return of endangered Eastern quolls, Long-nosed potorros, Rufous bettongs, Koalas and Parma wallabies are all coming!
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Australian friends: bit.ly/DevilComeback
International Friends: devilcomeback.org/
So far the #DevilComeback is going well! #RewildAustralia
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So hope this works. Well done team.
well down aussies for reviving them to live! From: Singapore
I’m really happy
Even more good news is that they started breeding recently!
Although, I am very curious about something- I once read that there were around two extinct devil species in mainland Australia as there were once a few species of thylacine as well. That said, would it be one thing to assume that the current living species of devil is unique to Tasmania and is merely serving as a proxy to its extinct mainland relatives, or had it also once roamed Australia as well by some land bridge? And if that's that case, should it not be really known as the Australian devil? Please, help me understand. I like learning new things.
In any case, I truly love how this is having a positive impact on the restoration of the native wildlife. I hope that they keep up the good work!
Australian devil is a more accurate name. It's called the Tasmanian devil cause it only lived in Tasmania when English people arrived to colonize Australia. But the name devil should be discarded completely and we should instead call it the tarrabah (its native name).
@evandavis9741this was proven wrong like 2014 and humans killed the devil… dingos were blamed unjustly
Congrats Tim and the team of Aussie Ark, big fan of your work always on Bondi, thrilled to see this initiative.
Cheering you on from Dubai 👏🏼🌴🌞🐪
Awesome work! This is great news, the Tasmanian devils will do a good job at maintaining the ecosystem by taking out mid sized invasive predatory feral mammals. Also we can rewild and reintroduce Komodo dragons in Australia To play the role as a keystone apex predators since they originally evolved in Australia and spread to Indonesia. They would be exceptionally good at taking down large invasive feral mammals like water buffalo, camels, hogs, horses,and so forth. Even the invasive feral carnivores.
Good onya Tim and Aussie Ark team.
That is a great video. Great to get some good news.
Well done guys. Amazing work what a success and congratulations on this huge event.
Great job.
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I swear I saw a Tasmanian tiger the other day I swear but anyways I hope there is some roaming deep deep we’re human foots are unknown
This is so self evident, why didn't it happen sooner?
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Will this affect the release of dingoes back into the wilderness? Because they would be in direct competition and dingoes would most likely force the devils out. But still a cool thing to do as long you don't have to bait dingoes to protect devils.
This is untrue research has shown that humans lead to the end of mainland devils, due to dingos being daytime animals and primarily hunters while devils are nocturnal and more scavenger they don’t compete that much
Release more
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What about the Wild Fires?
Sounds like they should be released in the areas that are having the mouse plague. Lots of food for making little devils.
Por que é chamado o diabo da Tasmanian?
They were given the name Devil by Europeans who arrived in Australia due to the demonic like screaming they do, they are called Tasmanian because until recently they’re last stronghold was the island of Tasmania.
Can Devils kill foxes and cats?
@Older General Skywalker That's actually why it's theorized most mammals in Australia are marsupials; it's safer to bring their young with them where ever they go instead of leaving them in stationary burrows that devils can get into.
Most likely. Feral cats in Tasmania avoid devils like the plague & it's been suggested that foxes couldn't establish themselves in Tasmania, partly due to devils. Devils scare off these invasive predators, as well as eat their young as they're easy to find due to their smell.
Quite sure they can, they have an incredible bite force for there size and aren’t really picky eaters. And as others has said they do consume the young of the invasive foxs, and cats in burrows and nests, devils are quite bold and important marsupial predators, so it’s good to see them back on the mainland. Also there have been talks of reintroducing and rewilding other carnivores such as Komodo dragons in Australia which originally evolved in Australia and would do very well at taking down large invasive feral mammals. And Cuban crocodiles as taxon substitutes for quinkana the long legged terrestrial crocodile.
@KKmies Yes indeed, Komodo dragons would be great rewilding candidates for Australia, it is sorely needed given the amount of megafauna that had become extinct by humans and other factors in the Pleistocene and the complete absence of modern native apex carnivores big enough to hunt native fauna like kangaroos, but also the introduction of invasive herbivores and carnivores running amok which is the main ecological threat to Australia native flora and fauna. Actually Komodo dragons aren’t megalania’s direct descendants but is indeed closely related, it was living with megalania in the Pleistocene at that time, and migrated to the Indonesian islands when the water levels were lower than they are today, and also they’re was a third giant species of monitor lizard that was intermediate in size between Komodo dragons and the megalania, so larger than a Komodo dragon, but not quite as massive and large as the megalania. And indeed true, as you mentioned mega carnivorous apex reptiles were the top apex predators, so reintroducing the Komodo dragon is a must to fill the void of a large apex reptilian predators to feed on and take care of the invasive herbivorous mammals and carnivores and to maintain a balanced ecosystem. And certainly true, the introduction of the gray wolf was a ecological important and successful achievement for yellow stones ecosystem. Also I see what you mean, something could happen to the island population in the future, that’s one scenario you mentioned, but also growing human population, prey availability, Changes in habitat are others aswell. So having another population in Australia in which it once inhabited is a must for sure. Also you mentioned Europe rewilding for elephants and lions? If so that’s awesome, I’ve heard about Pleistocene rewilding in North America with elephants, big cats, Tapirs, large bears, Tortoise, and so forth. Also apologies for the delayed response, I don’t receive notifications about comments for some reason.
@KKmies No worry’s, I actually heard they want to rewild elephants in Europe somewhere in Denmark Which is surprising and sounds great, I have heard they used to have straight tusked elephants that used to live there. I honestly don’t know if it’s suitable enough for elephant to live in currently but, I’m Probably wrong on that, maybe there is enough for them to live there. Also for introducing elephants in Australia, that a first for me, never heard about that before, I think I remember hearing about rhinos being discussed when it came to Australia rewilding. I wouldn’t think elephants would do well in Australia or it even being suitable enough. The largest land herbivore was the giant wombat like marsupial diprotodon, the size of a rhino. So when it comes to rewilding large herbivores it would be best to find taxon substitutes and species that would be the best surrogate species that is beneficial for the habitat and ecosystem, because if they release a species they think would be a good ecological surrogate species without researching about its diet and how it effects the plants and habitat, it could be another very big problem, so it would be best to have a few of these large herbivorous mammals in an enclosed area in habitat it would be living in if everything checks out. And if it’s a positive and beneficial taxon substitute it would be released in small numbers and to still research and observe the effects on the plant life and environment to make sure its a positive taxon substitute for the future. And if it’s destructive and negatively effecting the plant life and habitat it would be removed from rewilding efforts and then they would look for others species that would best fit the ecological niche as the extinct animal in question and try again. They could also use crispr gene editing to copy the genome of an extinct species into the genome of an existing species. They can do that for the giant monitor lizard megalania, the long legged land croc quinkana, the giant constrictor snake wonambi, and the giant marsupial herbivore diprotodon, and many others to.
Cool! But maybe a little too much buzzword bingo. ;)
Can't help but feel that the same thing that wiped them out on the Australian mainland 3000 years ago might just wipe them out again.
Interesting point, I thought Devils were killed off by Dingoes.
@@DM-fj8wvnope aboriginals dingos and devils don’t interact all that much cuz dingos are awake at daytime and devils are awake at night time, humans killed off the mainland devil