I never saw any in the wild. I heard them once at night (and they do make a fairly scary weird growl). I saw their scat but I had to go to the Tasmanian devil center on the Tasman Peninsula to see them.
Of course at first I saw road signs. I think they do not do the Tasmanian devils justice. They look so much better in "real life".
They have a terribly cute face.
The first photo below shows a Tasmanian devil yawning. I was worried that I would not see one growling, so I took the photo when he was yawning. But in the second photo he is growling.
Tasmanian devils are in bad shape. Not only just like any other creatures on the planet they find their space badly over taken by humans but also they are now victims of a sort of cancer (which gives them facial tumors and is unimaginatively called Devil Facial Tumor Disease or DFTD), just like cervical cancer it is associated with a virus and as a result is contagious. No tasmanian devil on the Tasman peninsula which is only attached to the rest of Tasmania by a very narrow isthmus (called Eaglehawk Neck) has been affected yet.
I will try not to rant and rave about the Tasman Peninsula. I fell in Love with Tasmania but particularly with the Tasman Peninsula and the coastal area just North of it.
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