BY ALEXANDRA REES
Conservation organisation Aussie Ark has recently conducted health checks of their Tasmanian Devils born and bred at the Barrington Tops.
Carried out by expert staff, the checks ensure the animals are in the best health ahead of their release into the Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary.
Aussie Ark curator Kelly Davis says the process is essential.
"We want to give all the devils a really good look over," she said. "We weigh them to make sure they are within a healthy weight range.
"Going out into our sanctuary we wouldn't want them to be underweight or in any way at a disadvantage, we also check for any little injuries and things like that."
Ms Davis says the prime focus is to guarantee a successful breeding season and this year's release into the sanctuary will help boost the devil population from last year.
"We have done a release of Tasmanian devils into our 400 hectare sanctuary before last year and they've bred successfully," she said.
"The upcoming breeding season that'll start early next year, the individuals that we're releasing are going to boost the genetic diversity of that population and some of the ones we have confirmed to be born in the sanctuary last year will be old enough to breed."
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