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August 27, 2012 01:49 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YwdaX-odXQg/cancer-threatens-tasmanian-dev.html
Cancer threatens Tasmanian Devils with extinction by "devil facial tumour disease"
In the last 2 decades, some 85% of wild Tasmanian Devils have been wiped out. The primary cause isn't poachers or habitat destruction, but cancer. "A recent epidemic disease, known as devil facial tumour disease, has brought an extremely rare, but equally devastating, set of circumstances together to threaten the devil population. Facial tumour disease, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YwdaX-odXQg/cancer-threatens-tasmanian-dev.html
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