Tasmainian devil facial tumor

Views Read Edit View history. An insurance population has been established in order to ensure survival of the species. Bruce Lyons grew up on the north coast and went to Narawntapu for the release. This project aims to create a set of one thousand genetically representative devils, and is now a major focus of the insurance policy. Sometimes the tumours grow inside the mouth and can push out teeth. In: IUCN red list of threatened species. The effort to develop a vaccine that would help devils ward off the disease is centered at the University of Tasmania.

Owen, David; Pemberton, David Vaccination with irradiated cancer cells has not proven successful. He speculated that these adaptations may have caused the contemporary devil's peculiar gait.