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Article: Devil or angel?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1995
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PLATYPUS VALLEY, Tasmania -- They drool. They lurch. They smell
bad. Nevertheless, they're cute little devils.
And hotter than ever, thanks to Warner Bros.' new cartoon series
"Taz-mania," starring the rather sweet young Taz (son or spinoff of
the old, more familiar Bugs Bunny foil, the Tasmanian Devil).
Neither character is popular with wildlife experts in Tasmania.
"The image people have of Tasmanian devils is the spinning, dizzy
cartoon character, and it's wrong. They are totally misunderstood,"
says devils' advocate Androo Kelly, who owns Trowunna Park, a
sanctuary for native Tasmanian animals. As we sit by a stone
fireplace on a cold and rainy Tasmanian morning, Kelly gives the ...