{"id":160051,"date":"2025-06-05T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160051\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:13:09","slug":"really-amazing-joy-as-10-tasmanian-devil-joeys-emerge-from-australias-biggest-mainland-breeding-program-tasmanian-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160051\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Really amazing\u2019: joy as 10 Tasmanian devil joeys emerge from Australia\u2019s biggest mainland breeding program | Tasmanian devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Ten tiny, egg-like joeys have been confirmed as the newest members of mainland Australia\u2019s largest fleet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/tasmanian-devils\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tasmanian devils<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">It comes after the first pouch check of the 2025 breeding season at Aussie Ark\u2019s Barrington Tops sanctuary in northern NSW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A recent deluge that brought more than 600mm to the region didn\u2019t rain on the devils\u2019 parade, with a spokesperson saying all the joeys, mums and dads were safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Operation manager, Dean Reid, said up to four more devils are expected to conceive in June in the final breeding window of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cIt\u2019s really amazing to be able to handle a devil \u2026 and see those amazing devils come out of the pouch,\u201d Reid said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cThese gnarly, big, chunky animals have little baby joeys in their pouch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got four more females that didn\u2019t have them and one we missed, so more joeys to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The Tasmanian devils\u2019 mating season occurs over three cycles from February to June, with birth coming after 21 days\u2019 gestation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">When catching the devils, the conservationists found there was a mix of joeys from the first and second cycle conceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Reid also said the joeys\u2019 fathers and mothers were doing well.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-11\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-rsfwa\">Sign up to Breaking News Australia<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">Get the most important news as it breaks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-11\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cWhile we have the females, we do a full health check, we\u2019re doing body scores, weight and giving them preventatives,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cIn a couple of months, we\u2019re going to see little tiny joeys running around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The announcement comes on World Environment Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten tiny, egg-like joeys have been confirmed as the newest members of mainland Australia\u2019s largest fleet of Tasmanian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114630466354276830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}