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| Photographed at Mountain Valley Wilderness, Loonguna, Tasmania, January 2018 |
96 TASMANIAN DEVIL Sarcophilis harrisi
AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS 96
Largest living marsupial carnivores. Widespread across Tasmania but becoming rare as population devastated by facial tumour disease. Found in most habitats, including outer urban; most common in dry sclerophyll forest and coastal woodlands with patches of open grassland. Nocturnal and crepuscular; scavenger and predator.
