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  • om nom nom nom

  • Humans are so fucking stupid. I hate us sometimes.

  • ...and i used to like tazmanian devil from looney toones...lol...!

  • At least it can't be spread via physical contact . . . can it?

  • @TrojanMuleMCCCXXXVII

    It can only be spread amongst Devils. Normally, the immunosystem tracks down and destroys all disease and foreign cells. Problem with cancer is, is that your own cells behave badly and the system cannot attack its own cells. This also means that another's cancer cells are normally harmless because the system reckognizes them as foreign. The Devil's problem is inbreeding. They're so genetically similar that they don't reckognize eachother's cells as foreign.

  • yikes

  • Damn, I was eating popcorn when I saw this

  • @noobenstein Shut up. It's called nature. Not retarded.

  • come on, they are from the zone by tschernobyl, didn't play s.t.a.l.k.e.r ? ^^

  • @noobenstein lmfao - as some alien looking down at us and says "maybe if those horrible creatures stopped biting each other they wouldn't have this problem. retarded species."

  • i had 1 as a pet nd i named him snuggels

  • anyone else thinking genophage from mass effect??? brutal species killing eachother through contact. (babies dying will come next)

  • they gone die ima shoot them niggas wit a ak47

  • Yes.yes they are and the whiteys too.. :/

  • difference between tasmanian devils and badgers..??

  • probably pollution or something man made were already killing the honey bees with our hormone induced vegetables why not??

  • umbrella released the new strain of T-virus

  • I really hope there will be a way to save these animals, afterall, in the nature, when one speices dies, it affects the other parts, Tasmanian devils, aren't they keeping deiseise(how the fuck does one spell that??)away from nature by eating cadaver and such? Well something like that is it, and that causes benefits for other elements, removing sickness for one example. They are needed in their enviroment, i'am sure it would cause bad things for their natural enviroment if they would die.

  • the tumors are thought to be spread by fighting. an infected devil bites another devil, and that second devil has the cancer. it's sad, and i hope they aren't wiped out because of it

  • There might be hope since they supposenly found one or more Devils with a DNA map unique enought to stand against that or let their imune system react against it, hopefully it can give new induvidual with fresh DNA against the cancer tumour that has been caused by inbreed between the species, since their DNA is so relative to each others, they get weaker immune-system against sickness such as their cancer tumour.

    Interbreeding=Dangerous to all animals, including us.

  • or by having sex, they fight when having sex, these vicious lil things fight all the time with everything they do :D

    i truly hope they wont go the way of the thylacine tho :(

  • Could this be due to interbreeding since its endangered? Like some sort of STD/Cancer.

  • devils looking @ devils on youtube...hmmm...how ironic lol

  • Guys - grow up. Before you post ridiculous comments here, go get a PHD in medicine and immunology and then talk some sense. The Devil is an endagered species - stop talking rubbish and put you hand in your wallet and give $5 to those who do care and are serious about their work. One day you too may get cancer - will it be funny then or will you be begging for help? Remember!

  • i will put money but how poor animal i beg that the complete race doesnt extinguish

  • what is it???poor creatures...

    i thought u couldnt bring over cancer but this is horrible

  • Atheists think that Mutation is an advantage?

  • It is for the cancer cells. They get all the nutrients and provide nothing to the host. These cancer cells are even transmissible and get to eat up more than one host. Next step might be airborne. Think a mutation or two couldn't add that ability?

    Thanks for sharing your smug certitude and infinite denials, creotard.

  • "Next step might be airborne. Think a mutation or two couldn't add that ability?"

    LoL!!

    You should send that to NationalGeographic and tell them don't worry, next step we might have a lion devil or something.

  • So do alot of christians.

  • suck a peen0r and die, noob.

  • like in fallout and STALKER lol

  • strange evil creatures.

    their jaw is 5 times stonger then dobermans!!!!!!

  • recently, a fucktard named joe8578 posted a gay chain comment on a video

  • dude your a fucktardthis was posted 2 months ago and you replied to it god your gay

  • do you think i would care? Chain-letter posters are whiny daddy-fuckers, and this guy is proof of it

  • he is right tho joe you sure are a daddy fucking faggot

  • Sigh, i really hope they can sort this problem out.

  • Tasmanian Zombies!!

  • thats disgusting. i feel sorry for those animals ):

  • looks kinda cute

  • O.O''

    im like never going 2 sleep or blink D=

  • It's a scavenger, you twat. Even if it was a predator it doesn't mean they aren't worth saving.

  • if an animal die from nature disaster. They clean it by eating it so it does not rot and have disease

  • it is our fault you twat

  • I suppose you like having five-year-old dead carcasses of animals(and other things) around you?

  • I might never sleep again. (still its a really awesome vid)

  • Pockets of cancer. Only one conclusion. Cancer can be caught, like any other disease.

  • Cancer can be caught, but not always cured. and the cancer that isnt easy to cure needs kemo and stuff like that, which im afraid devils most likly are not going to get soon

  • reminds me of zombie rats you see in the resident evil series.

  • i remember that i saw an article from the newspaper about that

  • Most powefull bite? Dudes. they say that nearly everywhere, the real most powerfull bite is from some kind of Turtle, but the most powerfull JAWS are from the hyena

  • the maen perbody size and yes their is a lot of misinfo out in the world.sad to say but the sciworld is fuckd up>.

  • It said most powerful bite "pound for pound"

  • I mean that the unmutated were cute...

  • How cute... Oh wait, it's a devil...

  • Ohh, I feel for them! I hope they can evolve their way around it... :(

  • evolve there way around it? i doubt that, sadly they will probably end up extinct

  • the most powerfull bite in the world.....defenseless..? not quite :|

  • wow scary hopefully it doesnt transfer to humans

  • The Tasmanian Devils are also critically endangered species because of humans and global warming ( I think ). Just look at them! Defenseless... we got to do something!

  • how to save the devil

  • My bf call me the tasmanian devil and shrew......who knows why?

  • yeah seriously. they are like pirhanas. if pirhanas had a cancer that was killing them off would you say "aww the poor little pirhanas cant devour people anymore, how sad" or if man eating sharks(bull,tiger,greatwhite,e­ct) had a genetic defect would you also be sad that these man eating creatures populations were being thinned? i wouldnt. just like if all the iluminati neocom politicians started dying of mysterious diseases by gods hand i also would not feel bad.

  • But Tasmanian Devils are so cute. They like to be petted and I suggest you do so the next time you visit Tasmania. Also give em a kiss.

  • Unlike humans, they are needed in the ecosystem. Btw, piranhas don't eat humans, but they will bite anything that doesn't move. Sharks don't even really like human flesh, they eat surfers because they look like seals above them. Sharks have bad eyesight. There is no "Hand of God" doing all of the killings. Most species are endangered by man-made causes. People suck.

  • Thank you !!!

  • then go kill yourself.

  • yeah

  • Unlike people though, they actually CONTRIBUTE to the ecosystem by eating corpses. I feel bad because once they cease to exist, the rotting corpses of kangaroos and other creatures that aren't devoured can spread deadly diseases.

  • okay, but i value a human life more then a little devils life. no matter the matter.

  • The dog barks because it has a poorly trained owner. The dog doesn't trust their owner to defend themselves, so the dog does it for them because they don't see their master as a leader -- sadly, many dogs are euthanised because of bad owners.

  • i never thought i'd hear the words "the ultimate challange is next. how to save the devil"

    *dramatic music*

  • I never thought I'd hear the words "Save the Devil" without "Me From" between them.

    Also,I fell pretty sorry for them.

  • herpes?

  • Lol, devil-porn!

  • pooooor little guys

  • those poor animals.. I hope that they can evolve to withstand it..

  • Aww, that is so sad! I feel so sorry for the little creatures.

  • you just blew my mind man

  • imagine a devil with the decease bites a person, and the person goes raged and aggressive like the devil, and it spreads and we all become zombies. that would be kick ass :)

  • That's exactly why it's a good idea to keep guns in the house, man! You never know when people are gonna turn into vicious, flesh-eating zombies!

  • Aww, poor fluffies!

  • asi se pelean los vatos de por la casa cuando roban, igualitos...

  • I love the irony of the last sentence by the narrator. Still though, I hope that someone discovers a way to save them.

  • they figured out the the cancer, was actually contagious. When the devil's bit each other, it was transfered from one, to another. The scientists have also found certain devil's that are immune or partially immune to the disease and are breeding them in....captivity sorta, to help raise the population and to help get rid of the deadly DFTD. (the disease)

  • redyoshi - thanks for the reply, that's great news. I hate that I can never catch the good stuff on NatGeo because I always work on Sundays.

  • anytime. and i caught the episode on accident lol. i had no idea it was important

  • thats EXACTLY why humanity needs ATLEAST 10.000 people to survive. did u ever see this in a sci-fi film?? 10.000 people atleast?? Startrek?

  • New Title: The Terror of Incest

  • fuk i was eating when i watched that cancer shit -_-

  • Baahahaa me too

  • This is really disgusting...good thing I'm from the north, north america...

  • oh my god... this is exactly whats going on the the southern part of the united states!!!

    no wonder southerners are so fucked up!

    damn inbreds!

  • forget saving them, how bout our diseases!!!! pornitis!!!

  • shit

    put them out of there miseries..

  • manbearpig????

  • ohhh myyy goshhh.... poor babies !!!

  • ok back to the point lol.these things are cereal and we need manbearpig to survive this disease so Al Gore can shut the fuck up!!!

  • fuck you

  • "save the devil"

    that's interesting

  • aww. they look cute.... when they dont have canser ofcourse.

  • Man those guys look like the flood from halo.

  • Devil Facial Tumor Disease...DFTD... :(

  • damn nature you scary! lol

  • lol XD

    dat little rat thing just got ate!

  • lmfao family guy!!! XD!!!

  • omg

    that was so disgusting

    omg

    poor Devils

  • Fucking piece of shit spammer go fuck yourself in the ass with a cactus

  • gigsworld u made my day w/ that comment

  • hahahahahahahaahaha lmfao!!!!!XD!!

  • wow never seen that before

    exseped from halo

  • they look like the flood from halo

  • blow the ring

  • HOLY SHIT

    A FAT MOUSE!!!

  • 1:36 hes not mutated. hes just a fat fat fatty

  • I thought hipppo has the most powerful bite? wtf!

  • pound for pound ratio. Hippos have huge weight. Hence their jaw pressure : weight is less than the jaw pressure : weight of a taz devil.

  • aw :O

  • does that mean if humans mate with them, they'll get no cancer?

  • LOL>?

  • so we just got freak devils through incest?

  • omg...the screams when thay fight...did thay use them in the movie "the thing"?

  • That's what gives them the power

    to spin around furiously and cut trees

    and shiet. Bugs bunny better watch out XD.

  • yet again partially our fault

  • haha!

    FACE CANCER!!

    cancer..

    on your FACE!!

  • look like goiters, need more iodine give them some iodized salt;D

  • ew looks like figgen rat mutated bear thing

  • wow. it sounds weird. " saving devils". lol. but then again it was only nicknamed by humans so its actually not there name. well poor devils.

  • thats horrific, poor devils.

  • id like 2 eat 1 :D

  • That's pretty rough.

  • y feel sad, did u c it tearing apart that other animal ?

  • sad because their species are inbreeding because of extinction in other islands.. it isn't sad that they eat other animals. that's why it's called the wild.

  • Whats sad is that humans did this... another reason cencient life forms should not exist we should just kill ourselfs because even "nature loving" people are destroying this planet it really is sad and i would rather be an animal than a human because we truly are monsters... and anyone who disagrees with me should watch this video and others... i have no pity for starving, poor or anyone for that matter because they and we are humans... we are monsters

  • lol shut up you hippy

  • You're saying that as soon as a species becomes self-aware, it should kill itself off?

    That is not how the natural world works, friend.

    Ever heard of a little book called "Also sprach Zarasthustra?" or what about :The origin of Species?"

  • ok u need to stop playing final fantsy also we kill mostley to suvive like all these animals if you feel thay way just go hang your self and dont preach to us or maby understand that we are animals.

  • umm...i understand what you mean, but this kill to survive thing is not the best idea. witout humans, the world is much more balanced an change to the envirornment will be done wit time, not by acts of will, this is how the world should be...i dink

  • amen..lol..

  • than y feel sad for people? did you see them nuking and causing global wars? you see same concept

  • I saw this on tv yesterday. It's sad

  • Our actions caused this and im afraid only our action can stop this.

  • if its a problem in the gene pool only time and genetic drift can solve it. what can we do? give them chemotherapy?

  • to yaakhee: no. I sugest introducing genetically modified hybrids into the population. It is extreme but so is killing something to near extinction. In light of good will, never use "chemotherapy" out of sarcasm or a punchline.

  • Dear gods, I had no idea this was going on. The poor devils, they don't deserve this :(

  • there's tons of work being done to find out the cause...unfortunately it's sort of like with cervical cancer...till not that long ago we didn't know why it was developing (virus). and there was a lot more work done on that till we found it out

    there are breeding programs set up in Victoria (Aus) with a completely disease free tassie devils, in case we don't make it in time

    i live in Tas, and would hate not being able to see them when i go out bushwalking

  • WOW i feel bad for those devil O.O

  • i only thought that tasmanian devil is only a cartoon character.. hehheheh but now i know its real... thanks

  • ahhh.. thanks for the knowledge

  • is this a kind of mouse?

  • No. They are marsupials, like kangaroos and koalas

  • omg.....this is scary...CaNceR!

  • just what we need, more cancer

  • probably the reason they have diseases is because they eat so many different infectious carcases =\

  • Actually as the video said, it was from inbreeding. Which makes sense because as everyone knows...inbreeding causes many problems.

  • heh. My schipperke looks, sounds and acts just like a Tasmanian Devil ^-^... a healthy one, mind...

  • shit that was scary- like a zombie movie. anyway they need this narrator instead of the douche bag normally on the ng channel

  • thank you

  • "a new strain of cancer" oh man

  • start breeding tasmanian devils from zoos with them, there should be alot of zoos with tasmanian devils, that will atleast help I'm sure D:

  • those poor creatures!

  • wtf is happening to them?

  • i dont wanna pat one of them O-o

  • look like some big ass rats

  • Dah! da ! da! da! "HOW TO SAVE THE DEVIL"

    Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa!

  • i think they fight and got those

  • look t that sexy tight ass, i'd love to stick it in there...