(CNN) -- Australia's iconic Tasmanian devil -- widely known as trouble in Looney Tunes cartoons -- has been put on the country's endangered list, environmental officials announced Friday.
"My decision to uplist the Tasmanian devil is based on advice from the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, which lists the devil facial tumor disease as the major
threat to the devil," Environment Minister Peter Garrett said in a statement.
"This disease has led to the decline of about 70 percent of the Tasmanian devil population since the disease was first reported in 1996."
I think in the Taxonomy of Modern Dangers, contagious devil facial tumor disease ought to rank pretty high. Something about carnivorous marsupials gnawing your face off and giving you cancer at the same time just trips the ZOMG factor.
Wonder how long it will take before MSNBCNN starts running 'round the clock scare pieces on DFTD?
That is all.
4 comments:
Let's close the boarders!
Ban flight travel to/from Tasmania!
Ask the biden to give his thoughts on how to best control the situation. Hope this doesn't affect your trip to the mouse's house.
"It's comin' right at me!"
**BLAMM**
That solves the problem.
Zombie devils.
Mmmm ... facial tissue!
I think Christina has the right idea.
I think Pelosi already has it.
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