CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Beelzebub’s pup: a reappraisal of the Tasmanian devil

2 Evolution and extinction

3 Relationships in the wild

4 ‘Made for travelling rough’: devil ecology

5 Devils and Europeans, 1803–1933

6 In the matter of the Society and the Board

7 From Antichrist to ambassador

8 In captivity

9 ‘The spinning animal from Tasmania’

10 Owning the devil: Tasmania and Warner Bros.

11 Devil Facial Tumour Disease

Notes

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