[Pdf/ePub] Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World?s Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive
by : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
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Book Synopsis : Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate?from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully eradicate certain genetic diseases. In 1995, a?deadly?disease?began?sweeping across?the Australian island state of?Tasmania,?killing every infected Tasmanian devil.??The disease moved so fast that some scientists feared the species would be wiped out in the wild?within a few decades. Where did this disease, named Devil Facial Tumor Disease, come from?? What caused it?a virus, bacteria, or something else?? How did it pass from one devil to another???What could be done to fight it? When author Dorothy Hinshaw Patent learned of the race to save the devil from her friend, Australian geneticist Jenny Graves, she?felt compelled to travel?to Australia to learn?firsthand?from scientists what they were finding out about
