Tasmanian devil
Sarcophilus harrisii
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Sarcophilus harrisii
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Dasyuromorphia
- Family
- Dasyuridae
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By night
- Continent
- Oceania
- Habitat
- Forest
- Conservation status
- Endangered
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Early European settlers named it after the eerie screeches and growls they heard at night.
- Since the 1990s a contagious cancer, passed on by biting, has spread through wild devils.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q134964 · All animals · All entries