In what will obviously be the last installment of my escaped Tasmanian Devils series I am happy to report that Ghengis has been recaptured. (Herald-Sun)
For those of you who have not been keeping up with this news, on the 16th of October three Tassie Devils escaped from their enclosure in Perth when a fallen tree flattened the fence.
Scratchy was recaptured by two men and managed to do serious damage to a bathroom wall before the zoo owner arrived to take him home. Itchy was the next one found and he also did his best to get away again but was safely returned.
Ghengis was obviously not as eager to continue his adventure as the others and was picked up without incident. Either that or the people who found him had also read the other news articles and realized that they would have to be more careful of their walls and pet cages than the previous rescuers.
Poor Ghengis is now going home for a good feed and a rest before being reunited with his friends. I wonder if this adventure will make them shyer of making a break for it next time or now they have had a taste of freedom will they be making a rush at every open gate? 🙂
Buried words and Bushwa. 
I love the post title, actually I’m envious… I want to write something I can name “Ghengis returns, hungry & tired” 🙂 I wonder about that too. I think Itchy & Scratchy would be up for another escapade but Ghengis might retire 🙂
I was pretty pleased with that title, I couldn’t have called it anything else!
Since he was called Ghengis I really wanted him to have needed some sort of military action to be recaptured! Oh well, at least he wasn’t the first to submit. I bet he will just not want to talk about his time on the outside, just telling the others to go on without him 🙂
Ah I’m glad Ghengis is home. I was picturing him alone and hungry, wondering around in a world where there have never been any devils in the wild [or at least not for a few thousand years]. I hope the zoo does some judicious pruning before the next big storm.
I was hoping he would be found too, what a lonely end he could have had if he wasn’t 😦
Yeah. 😦 Given how precious each and every devil is now it would have been doubly horrible if he’d died out there.
I thought the same thing. To lose three healthy ones would be a tragedy.
Hopefully Itchy, Scratchy and Ghengis will keep the devil gene pool alive and well! After all they have demonstrated a fair bit of ‘initiative’. 😀
Apparently the last was captured in North Dandalup. That’s about 4 mins drive south of Perth, depending where they started. A fair hike.
Scratchy was caught about 5km from the zoo too. They clearly weren’t hanging around waiting to be caught were they?
The escapades of Scratchy and Genghis, the tassie devils – I’ve never heard of anything so cute!
They are pretty cute, aren’t they? Feisty little buggers as well! I was really glad that their story was followed up on. So many times something interesting is reported and you never hear what happens at the end.
I didn’t even know until recently that tasmanian devils were real. You can imagine the delight that little bit of news caused… Thank you for covering this story, let us know any more in the saga! 🙂
I expect that we won’t hear too much more from these little guys. They will be in their new extra strong enclosure making up stories about all the things that happened to them ‘on the outside’ and probably happy to never go out there again 😉 If I hear anything I will be sure to let you know!