Sick Tassie Devil

[Scottyk]

Saw this animal on the road out to Badgers Head in the north today.
Pretty sure it was a Devil. Looked like it had mange the same as Wombats have been getting.
Can anyone help to explain it or forward the pics onto someone who can?
Thanks

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[Scottyk]

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[simonm]

That poor thing. Looks *&%$#! horrible Scott.

[GPSGuided]

What happened to it?

[Scottyk]

I don't know what was wrong with it other than what you see there. I suspect it was quite blind as initially it started moving towards the car when I stopped.
To me it looked just like a wombat with mange. Ive seen a few around lately and this was similar.
Might put the picture on facebook and see if it can get shared around until someone figure it out.

[MickyB]

Send your photo to Save the Tasmanian Devil Program http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil. ... CF000CB285 They might be interested in your photo and have an answer for you.

[GPSGuided]

Apart from the wide area alopecia, the abdomen seemed to be grossly swollen for whatever reason. Awful!

[stepbystep]

Horrible. I'll pass it on to some journalist mates.

[stepbystep]

Scotty I have emailed you, reply asap if you can. Thank you.

[Nuts]

An old devil towards the end of it's days. Iv'e not seen to that extent either but they do loose hair.

Send your photo to Save the Tasmanian Devil Program http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil. ... CF000CB285 They might be interested in your photo and have an answer for you.

Good idea.

[Scottyk]

Have emailed Dan back
I put it on Facebook and tagged the save the devil people so they should have seen it

[Overlandman]

From ABC

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-24/p ... ed/8979512

[cams]

Showed this thread to a friend who is doing his phd around the devil facial tumour disease and his response was along the lines of:

...the hair loss can be a symptom of DFTD, as far as I'm aware it isn't caused by a separate type of cancer. It could be, but it's not something I've ever seen a devil diagnosed with personally. On the other hand, I have seen quite a few devils with DFTD that are exhibiting that kind of extensive hair loss - given that the devil in the pic definitely has DFTD I would attribute it to that...