Police investigating case believe the marsupial was killed either by workers or visitors at zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Sunday 19 October 2014 01.41 BST
A Tasmanian devil at a US zoo has had its skull crushed by a block of asphalt and police are trying to determine whether a zoo employee or a member of the public was responsible.
Jasper was one of four Tasmanian devils shipped from Australia to the Albuquerque Bio Park Zoo in New Mexico last December.
It appeared he did not die instantly, with evidence from an examination by the zoo’s head veterinarian Ralph Zimmerman suggesting the injured devil crawled to a log in the enclosure before dying.
“The first suspicion of how the devil died was that it was possibly killed by another devil,” the police report states.
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