Table of Contents

1 Beelzebub's Pup: A Reappraisal of the Tasmanian devil

2 Evolution and Extinction

3 Relationships in the Wild

4 Biology and Behaviour in the Wild

5 Devils and Europeans, 1803-1933

6 In the Matter of the Society and the Board

7 Antichrist to Ambassador

8 In Captivity

9 'The Spinning Animal from Tasmania': Warner Bros' Tasmanian Devil

10 Tasmania and Warner Bros: Owning the Devil

11 DFTD: Devil Facial Tumour Disease

Endnotes

About the Author

David Owen is the author of nine novels, most of which are set in Tasmania. He is the editor of the Australian literary journal Island and the author of Thylacine: The tragic tale of the Tasmanian Tiger.

David Pemberton is the Vertebrate Curator at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.

Reviews

"A superbly readable account of this bizarre marsupial...the animal beneath the misnomer." --"The New York Sun"