Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened AnimalAllen & Unwin, 2005 - 225 páginas This is the first book published on the animal that has the distinction of being the world's largest marsupial carnivore, and is packed with information that has never been accessible to the general reader. The story of the Tasmanian devil is a remarkable one - surprising, controversial, funny and tragic. |
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Evolution and extinction | 30 |
Relationships in the wild | 43 |
Made for travelling rough devil ecology | 63 |
Devils and Europeans 18031933 | 78 |
In the matter of the Society and the Board | 98 |
From Antichrist to ambassador | 116 |
In captivity | 130 |
The spinning animal from Tasmania | 143 |
Owning the devil Tasmania and Warner Bros | 157 |
Devil Facial Tumour Disease | 168 |
Notes | 197 |
Select bibliography | 212 |
Index | 215 |
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Tasmanian Devil: A unique and threatened animal David Owen,David Pemberton Visualização parcial - 2011 |
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Página 79 - These animals were very common on our first settling at Hobart Town, and were particularly destructive to poultry, &c. They, however, furnished the convicts with a fresh meal, and the taste was said to be not unlike veal. As the settlement increased, and the ground became cleared, they were driven from their haunts near the town to the deeper recesses of forests yet unexplored.
Página 207 - He does not mind going a hundred miles to breakfast, and a hundred and fifty to dinner, because he is sure to have three or four days between meals, and he can just as well be traveling and looking at the scenery as lying around doing nothing and adding to the burdens of his parents.
Página 79 - In a state of confinement, they appear to be untameably savage ; biting severely, and uttering at the same time a low yelling growl. A male and female, which I kept for a couple of months chained together in an empty cask, were continually fighting ; their quarrels began as soon as it was dark (as they slept all day), and continued throughout the night almost without intermission, accompanied with a kind of hollow barking, not unlike a dog...
Página 80 - ... couple of months chained together in an empty cask, were continually fighting; their quarrels began as soon as it was dark (as they slept all day), and continued throughout the night almost without intermission, accompanied by a kind of hollow barking, not unlike that of a dog, and sometimes a sudden kind of snorting, as if the breath was retained a considerable time, and then suddenly expelled.
Página 79 - ... forests yet unexplored. They are, however, easily procured by setting a trap in the most unfrequented parts of the woods, baited with raw flesh, all kinds of which they eat indiscriminately and voraciously; they also, it is probable, prey on dead fish, blubber, &c. as their tracks are frequently found on the sands of the sea shore. In a state of confinement, they appear to be untameably savage ; biting severely, and uttering at the same time a low yelling growl.
Página 95 - ... they have given me. Description of specimen. — The specimen was a full-growi> female, with three fairly advanced young in the pouch. All had been dead for two days. The pouch-young were fixed entire in corrosive- sublimate- acetic-solution, the genital organs of the mother in picro-sulpliuric solution. In this latter case, on sectioning, it was found that what blood there was in the vessels had hardened so much, that it was only with extreme care and difficulty that sections could be cut at...
Página 80 - ... sudden kind of snorting, as if the breath was retained a considerable time, and then suddenly expelled. The female generally conquered. They frequently sat on their hind parts, and used their fore paws to convey food to their mouths. The muscles of their jaws were very strong, as they cracked the largest bones with ease asunder; and many of their actions, as well as their gait, strikingly resembled those of the bear.
Página 88 - ... attacked her and would drag her back by the ear, or any other part, but although otherwise cruel, he would carry food in to her. When I called her, it was pitiable to hear her whining; but it was of no avail, for Billy was a relentless tyrant and kept her in strict seclusion for quite ten or twelve days; then early in May he allowed her to be free once more.
Página 147 - My young, beautiful, impatient mother, with the itch to live — perhaps too much like my own — was a tempest about my ears, as I about hers. Our war deepened so that a time came when it was a matter of indifference to me whether I saw her or not...
Página 147 - Occasionally I went with him on a trip in quest of one of the rare Tasmanian animals. We headed for the western coast, a difficult terrain, where there were huge fossilised trees. We hunted the Tasmanian tiger, an animal so rare it took Father four years to trap one.