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Happy New Year from TASMANIA
- Thread starter Birdseed
- Start date
Birdseed
Member
Sweepdog
If you mean a fellow detectorist down here called The Tasmanian Devil, then no. I am the only person in this area detecting that I know of. Though there must be others as I hear of people being seen on the local beaches.
If you mean the real little Tasmanian Devils, yes I have met quite a few over the years. In the wild they are nasty little buggers, in captivity they can be quite tame. I have had them charge out at me when driving the car. In full attack mode. Unfortunately a lot become roadkill because of this habit.
You may be aware that the Devil is in trouble at the moment, they are dying in their thousands due to "Facial Tumor Disease" Thought to be transmitted through fighting over food. The genetic code of individual animals is so similar, that a cancer like disease is transmitted from one to another when cells from the tumor contact an open wound, as their immune systems do not recognise that the cells come from another animal, and therefore do not reject the disease. Hope is that some animals from isolated pockets in Tasmania appear to be immune and these may be used to breed up an immune population.
The attached photo is not mine and shows a typical healthy Tasmanian Devil.
All the best again
Peter
If you mean a fellow detectorist down here called The Tasmanian Devil, then no. I am the only person in this area detecting that I know of. Though there must be others as I hear of people being seen on the local beaches.
If you mean the real little Tasmanian Devils, yes I have met quite a few over the years. In the wild they are nasty little buggers, in captivity they can be quite tame. I have had them charge out at me when driving the car. In full attack mode. Unfortunately a lot become roadkill because of this habit.
You may be aware that the Devil is in trouble at the moment, they are dying in their thousands due to "Facial Tumor Disease" Thought to be transmitted through fighting over food. The genetic code of individual animals is so similar, that a cancer like disease is transmitted from one to another when cells from the tumor contact an open wound, as their immune systems do not recognise that the cells come from another animal, and therefore do not reject the disease. Hope is that some animals from isolated pockets in Tasmania appear to be immune and these may be used to breed up an immune population.
The attached photo is not mine and shows a typical healthy Tasmanian Devil.
All the best again
Peter
Birdseed
Member
dbsmokey
No I don't work in the medical field, have recently retired from the power industry in the extra high voltage electrical engineering field. I have an enquiring mind and have managed to read up a lot of data on the plight of our Tasmanian Devils.
There is a lot of info from basic to the exotic available on the WEB about the devil for anyone that cares to look. I am also an active member of the Launceston Field Naturalist Club, which gives me access to people working in the animal health and related fields.
Also have an amateur radio call and cut and polish gemstones
Cheers
Peter
No I don't work in the medical field, have recently retired from the power industry in the extra high voltage electrical engineering field. I have an enquiring mind and have managed to read up a lot of data on the plight of our Tasmanian Devils.
There is a lot of info from basic to the exotic available on the WEB about the devil for anyone that cares to look. I am also an active member of the Launceston Field Naturalist Club, which gives me access to people working in the animal health and related fields.
Also have an amateur radio call and cut and polish gemstones
Cheers
Peter
Hi Birdseed,My father served in the south pacific aboard the sub USS Cob as a sonar man. He has many pictures of the sub base in Perth and a few women that my mother does not care for. Anyway,he is a ham and sits for hours and hours and hours using Morse code and then starts with his call sign,,,,4 ZULU,4 ZULU on and on...Hope God and your Minelab treat you good this year....candycane.
jamesinwesttexas
New member
Birdseed, good luck with those Devils. Thanks for caring about them and thanks for the photo. Reminds me some of a badger we have here in west Texas. As mean as they seem to be would feel a great loss if we lost all of them. Wonder if we could teach them to dig targets or snif out gold rings? James