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At Aussie Ark, part of the mission is to ensure the health and genetic diversity of the Tasmanian Devils in their care. But to check the wild populations, they must do the impossible: catch a Devil.

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This clip comes from Season 3, Episode 9: "The Devil Ark"

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00:00So Ivan, for us to do the health checks, we need to catch the devils, and we have these
00:06specially designed traps that we use to catch them, so we can, you know, handle the devils
00:12and examine their pouches and examine the health of the individual, you know?
00:17They look like pretty simple, but I'm assuming very effective.
00:22Very effective traps.
00:25How many are we going to put on here, mate?
00:27We're going to put 10 on, and like most traps, especially carnivores, we just put a little
00:31bit of meat in the end, and that's all we have to use.
00:57So, just unlatch your cable that's at the top end of the trap, pull the cable up, you've
01:04got your meat with a little bit of string, you tie it onto the loop that's at the end
01:09of this cable here, tie it on like that, and then we pull the cable all the way up here.
01:15Oh, cool, I get it.
01:16And then you clip that there, like so, and then this sits like that's there, like that.
01:25And then this guy goes through in here, into the hole.
01:31Once you've got the cable hooked up, back up here, you push that through the smaller
01:34hole on the actual door, and then that's your locking pin, which draws back with the rubber
01:38band.
01:39So as that guy pulls the meat, that pin's going to come out, this is hopefully going
01:43to drop.
01:44Yep, and so as it rolls around in there, this will just end up locking, and then we've got
01:50ourselves a devil.
01:56Well, it's last light, these Tassie devils are going to be wandering around tonight,
02:09this is one of their feeding stations, we're going to end up with 10 baited traps in this
02:13area, and hopefully tomorrow morning, a few Tassie devils.
02:18Now for our first devil.
02:24It's a little one, it's last year, Joey, by the look of it, so do you want to have a go
02:28at this?
02:29Yeah, tell me what to do.
02:30So pop that there.
02:31Yep.
02:32Keep that nice and tight.
02:35Take it off the ground so the devil doesn't hit it when it pops in, up higher, give it
02:38a shake.
02:39Yep.
02:40There she goes, she's in the sack.
02:41Pop that bottom down, I've got this, yep, good job.
02:45Well, this is a sack full of devil, right?
02:47I feel like we've done that before.

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