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Farmer protecting chickens captures creature considered locally extinct for 130 years
The spotted-tailed quoll, also known as the tiger quoll ... locally extinct for over a century while trying to protect his chickens. Photos show the spotted creature. Frank Pao-Ling Tsai, a ...
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Decline of Tasmanian devil could be causing genetic changes in spotted-tailed quoll, study finds
In Tasmania, that predator is the spotted-tailed quoll—a marsupial with a diet similar to that of the devil. Both species hunt at night, but quolls are smaller than devils, which means that ...