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The female Tasmanian devil's pouch, like that of the wombat, opens to the rear, so it is physically difficult for the female to interact with young inside the pouch. Despite the large litter at birth, the female has only four nipples, so there are never more than four babies nursing in the pouch, and the older a female devil gets, the smaller ...
This species breeds from July to February, with the young in the pouch from July to April (Morton 1978b). Gestation is for 13 days and the young remain in the pouch for 70 days with litter size on average 7.5 with a 33% infant death rate. They generally have two litters per year with females not breeding for the first year.
I was in a wildlife park in Tasmania a few years ago, and the guide there told me that after Tasmanian Devil babies outgrow the mother's pouch, they ride on her back. He then said that babies often use their teeth to hold on to the back, and that Tasmanian Devil moms have thicker back skins specifically for this reason.
A purple Tasmanian devil and a good friend of Buster Bunny. Slam Tasmanian: Tasmanian devil: Loonatics Unleashed: Descendant of Taz. Taz: Tasmanian devil Taz-Mania and other Warner Bros. cartoons T-Bone Tasmanian devil Wild Kratts: A young Tasmanian devil who appears in Tazzy Chris. He climbs trees to sniff out carcasses like any other young devil.
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Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes) films (14 P) Pages in category "Fictional Tasmanian devils" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Tasmanian Devil is one of the world's largest meat-eating marsupials that is an apex predator on the country's southern island. It died out on the mainland around 3,500 years ago.
The Tasmanian devil, an iconic Tasmanian mammal. Tasmanian mammals are divided into three major groups based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the monotremes), pouched mammals (the marsupials), and placental mammals. This is a list of mammals of Tasmania: