They're actually thinking of moving devils to Victoria on the mainland to isolate them from the tumour infected devils.

I hope there is something to help. This situation is incredibly devastating and so very tragic.

Tasmanian has had a very rough time with the Tassy Tiger also being hunted to extinction (kind of a marsupial wolf iirc) and, not to equate humans to animals, the Tasmanian Aboriginals also being wiped out due to small pox and other diseases from well meaning missionaries.

In the devils case, this seems to be an awful trick of evolution, as noted in the video, a single animal experienced a cell mutation which left it with a communicable cancer that is uniquely suited to transmit via the devils form of (anti)social interaction... = (

While I could believe that the Tasmanian Devils greet each other by biting I don't think his little experiment with the camera proves much. I dangle just about anything in front of my Ferrets and they'll start chomping, I've heard that it's just how they interact with the world, perhaps it is similar with the Devils.
Also, a little Sympathy for the Devil might have been appropriate, poor lil devils.

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Can You Catch Cancer? has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals on that post.