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You feisty devils, you

Posted by Tia Ghose (Guest Contributor) at 9:09 AM on 14 Mar 2008

Read more about: wildlife | Australia

Check out this National Geographic video about Tasmanian devils (via The Slog):

By the way, Tasmanian devils are nearing extinction.

They are so cute!

Who knew!  Even the way they go bouncing around is cute!  And they have such a darling snarl!

(Tim Faulkner ain't bad either.)

But that contagious cancer is puzzling, and scary.  It has been in the news for a while now, and hopefully the experts are learning enough about it that they can conserve the unaffected devils with more and more confidence of success.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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