Tasmanian devils to make public debut at San Diego Zoo

SAN DIEGO - Four Tasmanian devils brought in from Australia are scheduled to make their public debut at the San Diego Zoo this morning.

Bradley, Bixby, De-Vos, and Usmar arrived at the zoo last month and were placed into a mandatory 30-day quarantine. They came from the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Australia.

The zoo, the only one in the U.S. to have the endangered species, will house the animals in its Australian Outback exhibit.

Usmar is female, the rest are males.

Tasmanian devils, native to the island state of Tasmania, are nocturnal hunters that live in forest, woodland and agricultural...