That's the badger!

So first of all, what is a Tasmanian devil?

When the devil bites another devil, it actually physically implants living cancer cells into the next devil, so the tumor continues to grow.

In fact, in the area where she comes from, more than 90 percent of the Tasmanian devil population has already died of this disease.

But the Tasmanian devil population has been undergoing a really extremely fast decline.

My personal aim is to defeat the Tasmanian devil cancer.

So this Tasmanian devil cancer is perhaps the ultimate cancer.

Fortyfour lions, a zebra, two ostriches and, uh...

Of course, they died along with the mother.

The honeybees that fetch the nectar from the flowers to the comb

And the answer came from studying the Tasmanian devil cancer's DNA.

And yet, she was feeding three little baby Tasmanian devils in her pouch.

A man must live like honeybee and gather all he can.

Death, where is thy sting? Grave where is thy victory ?

Not this honeymoon business again. Honeymoon. That's a laugh.

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.

Candy

Honeymoon.

Midge...

Bee?

Honeymoon?

Of course, the real importance for bees is not the honey.

The bee sare buzzin' in the tree to make some honey just for me

Sweetest !

Fancy honeymoon?

Charmian.

Well the final piece of the puzzle came when we remember how devils behave when they meet each other in the wild.

And despite their ferocious appearance, Tasmanian devils are actually quite adorable little animals.

This disease appears first as tumors, usually on the face or inside the mouth of affected Tasmanian devils.

Let's prevent the Tasmanian devil from being the first animal to go extinct from cancer.

The Sugar Season

Number of bees

honeydew

honeydew1

honeydew2

honeydew3

honeydew4

That honeymoon!

Their secret longing

Yeah? Oh, hi, sugar.

In fact, they invite the honey bees through their colors, and the bees don't keep all the honey for themselves.

But that is where the Tasmanian devil cancer has acquired an absolutely amazing evolutionary adaptation.

And just as the Tasmanian devil cancer is contagious through the spread of living cancer cells, so is this dog cancer.

What is killing the Tasmanian devil? A virulent cancer is infecting them by the thousands and unlike most cancers, it's contagious. Researcher Elizabeth Murchison tells us how she's fighting to save the Taz, and what she's learning about all cancers from this unusual strain. Contains disturbing images of facial cancer.

Even the old Germanic tribes were making a strong drink from honey called Meade.