![]() ![]() King's Run gives him the perfect opportunity for observing the animals. While living in Australia, Blake let children vote through his website for the marsupial they most want to read about. With crushing jaw strength, the Tasmanian devil can devour carrion completely-meat, bones, skin and all.īlake has come to King's Run, an 830-acre private wildlife refuge overlooking the Southern Ocean, to write about the world's largest remaining marsupial carnivores. Resembling a black dog with white splotches and weighing no more than 20 pounds, the devil is gnawing at the wallaby's hindquarters. He peers out the window, scribbling furiously. The sound of shattering bones comes to Blake through a baby monitor wired to speakers inside the shack. Then, from the constant howling of the wind emerges an extraordinary crunch!Ī Tasmanian devil has chomped into a road-killed wallaby staked outside. ![]() Blake, an American children's book author and illustrator, lights a candle and begins to draw as he awaits the coming excitement. ![]() POSITIONED BY A WINDOW in a whitewashed shack on the rocky northwestern shore of Tasmania, Robert J. The world's most famous marsupial predator may face extinction within 15 years from a contagious cancer ![]()
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