where do tasmanian devils live?
In Tasmania
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 Tasmanian devils were displayed in various zoos around the world from the 1850s onwards . In the 1950s several animals were given to European zoos . In October 2005 the Tasmanian government sent four devils , two male and two female , to the Copenhagen Zoo , following the birth of the first son of Frederik , Crown Prince of Denmark and his Tasmanian @-@ born wife Mary . Due to restrictions on their export by the Australian government , at the time these were the only devils known to be living outside Australia . In June 2013 , due to the successes of the insurance population program , it was planned to send devils to other zoos around the world in a pilot program . San Diego Zoo Global and Albuquerque Biopark were selected to participate in the program , and Wellington Zoo and Auckland Zoo soon followed . In the United States , four additional zoos have since been selected as part of the Australian government 's Save the Tasmanian Devil program , the zoos selected were : the Fort Wayne Children 's Zoo , the Los Angeles Zoo , the Saint Louis Zoo , and the Toledo Zoo . Captive devils are usually forced to stay awake during the day to cater to visitors , rather than following their natural nocturnal style . 

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 Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 27 June 2011 , suggests picking a genetically diverse breeding stock , defined by the genome sequence , for conservation efforts . In 2011 , it was estimated that it would cost $ 11 million to preserve the Tasmanian devil species . 

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 Devils are found in all habitats on the island of Tasmania , including the outskirts of urban areas , and are distributed throughout the Tasmanian mainland and on Robbins Island ( which is connected to mainland Tasmania at low tide ) . The north @-@ western population is located west of the Forth River and as far south as Macquarie Heads . Previously , they were present on Bruny Island from the 19th century , but there have been no records of them after 1900 , and they were introduced to Badger Island in the mid @-@ 1990s but are thought to have died out by 2005 . A study has modelled the reintroduction of DFTD @-@ free Tasmanian devils to the mainland in areas where dingoes are sparse . It is proposed that devils would have fewer impacts on both livestock and native fauna than dingoes , and that the mainland population could act as an additional insurance population . In September 2015 , 20 immunised captive @-@ bred devils were released into Narawntapu National Park , Tasmania . Two later died from being hit by cars . 

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 Tasmanian devils are popular with tourists , and the director of the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park has described their possible extinction as " a really significant blow for Australian and Tasmanian tourism " . There has also been a multimillion @-@ dollar proposal to build a giant 19 m @-@ high , 35 m @-@ long devil in Launceston in northern Tasmania as a tourist attraction . Devils began to be used in tourism from the 1970s , when studies showed that the animals were often the only things known about Tasmania overseas and suggested that they should therefore be the centrepiece of marketing efforts , resulting in some devils being taken on promotional tours . 

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 The Tasmanian devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae , now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania . The size of a small dog , it became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936 . It is characterised by its stocky and muscular build , black fur , pungent odour , extremely loud and disturbing screech , keen sense of smell , and ferocity when feeding . The Tasmanian devil 's large head and neck allow it to generate among the strongest bite per unit body mass of any extant mammal land predator , and it hunts prey and scavenges carrion as well as eating household products if humans are living nearby . Although it usually is solitary , it sometimes eats with other devils and defecates in a communal location . Unlike most other dasyurids , the devil thermoregulates effectively and is active during the middle of the day without overheating . Despite its rotund appearance , the devil is capable of surprising speed and endurance , and can climb trees and swim across rivers . 
