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but kel reckons it s now an important part of the conservation effort. to have a sweet deviljoey that you can cuddle and interact with absolutely changes people s perception. because they re sweet and they have personalities and they re inquisitive, and that s really important. no one is going to want to protect and look after something that they re scared of or don t understand or see asjust really aggressive. and why save the tassie devil? so, australia actually has the highest rate of extinction of mammals compared to the rest of the world. one of the more recent animals to go extinct was the tasmanian tiger, leaving the tassie devil the biggest marsupial predator in australia. the joeys aren t set loose into the wild of the sanctuary until they ve done some growing. each animal considered for release is selected for its genes. they re making sure the population s genetically diverse enough to be self sustaining.
welcome to aussie ark. now, we have a couple of special little animals for you guys to have a look at today. we ve got sandra dee here, and we also have pickles. so far, aussie ark has had seven breeding seasons with a total of around 300 baby devils, orjoeys. i think shejust likes moving around. she sjust investigating. so, devils have a very, very good sense of smell. so she s you can see her nostrils going. she s sniffing around cos we all smell all new. it s all new people, all new smells. look at all her whiskers! they admit here that inviting visitors in was something of an afterthought. but kel reckons it s now an important part of the conservation effort. to have a sweet devil joey that you can cuddle and interact with absolutely changes people s perception. because they re sweet and they have personalities and they re inquisitive, and that s really important. no one is going to want to protect and look after something that they re scared of or don t understand or see asjust
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