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I kind of think of it as this cartoon devil or angel sitting on our shoulders.
Now I don't know if this is the devil or the angel sitting on our conscience, sitting on television's shoulders, but I do know that I absolutely love this image.
The Tasmanian devil has shown us that, not only can cancer be a contagious disease, but it can also threaten an entire species with extinction.
So first of all, what is a Tasmanian devil?
But not many people know that there actually is a real animal called the Tasmanian devil, and it's the world's largest carnivorous marsupial.
The Tasmanian devil got its name from the terrifying nocturnal scream that it makes.
The Tasmanian devil is predominantly a scavenger, and it uses its powerful jaws and its sharp teeth to chomp on the bones of rotting dead animals.
[The] Tasmanian devil is found only on the island of Tasmania, which is that small island just to the south of the mainland of Australia.
In fact, growing up in Tasmania, it always was incredibly exciting when we got a chance to see a Tasmanian devil in the wild.
But the Tasmanian devil population has been undergoing a really extremely fast decline.
The story begins in 1996 when a wildlife photographer took this photograph here of a Tasmanian devil with a large tumor on its face.
And I remember the horror of seeing this little female devil with this huge ulcerating, foul-smelling tumor inside her mouth that had actually cracked off her entire lower jaw.
In fact, in the area where she comes from, more than 90 percent of the Tasmanian devil population has already died of this disease.
Scientists around the world were intrigued by this cancer, this infectious cancer, that was spreading through the Tasmanian devil population.
All the evidence suggested that this devil cancer was spread by a virus.
But that is where the Tasmanian devil cancer has acquired an absolutely amazing evolutionary adaptation.
And the answer came from studying the Tasmanian devil cancer's DNA.
He's a Tasmanian devil that we found with a large tumor on his face.
Well the next breakthrough came from studying hundreds of Tasmanian devil cancers from all around Tasmania.
That means that all of these cancers actually are the same cancer that arose once from one individual devil, that have broken free of that first devil's body and spread through the entire Tasmanian devil population.
When the devil bites another devil, it actually physically implants living cancer cells into the next devil, so the tumor continues to grow.
So this Tasmanian devil cancer is perhaps the ultimate cancer.
And just as the Tasmanian devil cancer is contagious through the spread of living cancer cells, so is this dog cancer.
My personal aim is to defeat the Tasmanian devil cancer.
Let's prevent the Tasmanian devil from being the first animal to go extinct from cancer.
And when you try to execute these commitment devices, you realize the devil is really in the details.
But we all know in here, you know, there is no Devil, there are no voices in your head.
But whether it's victims, whether it's governments, NGOs, or even the Queen yesterday, in Northern Ireland, we have to interact and engage with those different layers of terrorism, and, in effect, we do have to have a little dance with the devil.
What is definitely uncontroversial is that, as I've said, we've got to stop being reactive, and more proactive, and I just want to leave you with one idea, which is that it's a provocative question for you to think about, and the answer will require sympathy with the devil.
What it would mean is that humans, in order to survive in development, quite Darwinian spirit here, inherently must dance with the devil.
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