Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Tasmanian Devil VS American Opossum Fight!" video.

  1. Play dead to a Tassie Devil, is really saying "I am serving up a delicious meal now". The really spooky thing is that the Tassie Devil growling when heard in night forest setting makes you think you are about to meet a huge dangerous monster more the size of a large bear or rhinoceros. It is ferocious in sound and to quite an extent in aggressiveness. While nothing like the whirlwind character of cartoon fame, they are very active and not to be messed with. Sadly they need careful conservation measures to prevent extinction. They major Tasmanian population is suffering a severe and mostly fatal facial tutor, that is apparently transferred between animals due to the regular fights between them. As already visible they often have significant scaring especially facial scars of previous fights. Some sucess has occured getting breeding stock lacking to exhibit the facial tutor, but also some believed "clean" have later turned to have tors anyway. One can only hope for further success in the conservation efforts, and possible reintroduction in mainland forests, where once they also roamed. Other than reintroduction they are missing in mainland forests for quite a long time. In Tasmania, they are an important oart of the entire ecosystem, loss of this predator/carrion scavenger would have further reaching consequences, the only other predator species was wiped out by settlers long ago, the Tasmanian Tiger, not a cat, but a marsupial with striped body rear, looking more dog like than cat. Apparently the last died in captivity, though like many unusual observations report we d there are some believing in the deep remote forests of Tasmania some are rumoured to still be living. No good proof however has been found. On fight Oppusum vs Tasmanian Devil, I believe the strong jaws and teeth, with overall size/weight advantage of the Devil and regular fights give the Devil an almost unbeatable status, they even beat many attacks by feral cats and feral dogs of larger size and weight. Tough like Devils in every way, name and action.
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