Tasmanian Devils are dying from an unusual communicable cancer, which is apparently spread when animals bite one another. Researchers are exploring ways to save them — including moving healthy animals to islands where there are currently no Tasmanian devils.
Dr. Steven Smith, head of the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease Program, tells Melissa Block that researchers estimate that half of the population of devils has died.
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