{"id":1523,"date":"2010-11-10T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T01:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2010-11-10T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T01:21:42","slug":"tasmanian-devils-head-north-to-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/tasmanian-devils-head-north-to-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian devils head north to new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1525\" title=\"devil\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devil.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devil-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devil-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The ailing but iconic Tasmanian devil is about to get a new home, with a giant sanctuary set to open in New South Wales.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devilark.com.au\/\">Devil Ark<\/a> will house up to 1,000 animals over a lifespan of at least 10 years. The centre, which will open in December, was conceived by staff Australian Reptile Park (famous for its roadside dinosaur statue).<\/p>\n<p>The ark will form part of the mainland insurance program aimed at saving the species from extinction. The Tasmanian devil is under threat from Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a contagious cancer that has seen numbers drop by about <a href=\" http:\/\/www.parks.tas.gov.au\/index.aspx?base=387\" target=\"blank\"> 64 per cent in the wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though notorious for their aggressive eating habits, devils are scavengers rather than hunters, feeding largely on carrion \u2014 animals that are already dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ailing but iconic Tasmanian devil is about to get a new home, with a giant sanctuary set to open in New South Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,36,8],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-nature","category-news","category-science","tag-rhiannon-elston"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}