Baby Tasmanian Devils Born At Taronga Zoo (VIDEO)

Don't let the name "Tasmanian devil" fool you. These four baby devils, or joeys, are super cute.

In the video below, the Tasmanian devil keepers at Syndey, Australia's Taronga Zoo hold the four babies for the first time, during the zoo's breeding season.

According to ZooBorns, their mother Nina snuggles around them as a keeper lifts each out to determine its gender. The litter includes one girl and three baby boys.

This comes as good news to the zoo. Tasmanian devil breeding centers have been working to fight extinction, as the devils are threatened by Devil Facial Tumor Disease. The disease, which already wiped out sixty percent of the wild devil population, causes tumors to form around the animal's face. This limits their eating ability and eventually results in starvation.

To learn about efforts to save the Tasmanian devil, click here.

For photos of the center and the Tasmanian devils that live there, click here.

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Comments

[NINA B]

12:43 AM on 08/19/2011

How old will they be when they start moving around in a little whirlwind?

[GirlUsingBrain]

09:45 AM on 08/16/2011

Tasmanian Devils are under attack by a carcinogenic virus. The wild population is being decimated and may be a thing of the past if a cure is not found.

http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2074

[Christinaa]

08:49 AM on 08/16/2011

They are so CUTE! Here's another video but it features an adult....less cute, but still pretty cool! http://www.earthrangers.com/wildwire/omg-facts/tasmanian-devil-video/

[trishamine]

09:32 AM on 08/15/2011

How cute are they, it amazes me at how baby animals can capture your hart but when they grow up they aren't any where close to capturing your heart.

[Dan Bates]

09:00 AM on 08/15/2011

Baby Devils born???....(How many ADULT DEVILS are born)...Journalism at it's finest...

[IndoLiberal]

08:39 PM on 08/14/2011

It's 'Sydney', not 'Syndey'

[Renee MeredithShapiro]

01:55 PM on 08/15/2011

thanks for making me believe I am not the only one who catches Huff Post with their many typos, misspellings and grammatical errors! You'd think they would have an EDITOR! ~R

[Ayla McIntosh]

07:47 PM on 08/14/2011

They're adorable!

[Bob Wagner]

06:29 PM on 08/14/2011

It is a horrible to see that man can kill off so much, and while these animals aren't really cuddly pets, they are still beautiful animals.

[LouisatheLast]

08:42 PM on 08/14/2011

While man has indeed contributed to many extinctions, this species is threatened because of a very nasty disease, not hunting.

[Daniel Hicks]

12:12 AM on 08/15/2011

Hunting isn't the only way man causes extinction. Habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change have all claimed numerous species without the need for bullets. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the outbreak of this disease among the population were caused by poor genetic diversity (no resistance) due to small population size, prompted by any and all of the above factors, to include hunting.

[Mary Anne Landers]

05:09 PM on 08/14/2011

Cute little devils!

[GirlUsingBrain]

09:46 AM on 08/16/2011

Shoot! This is what I was going to say! Indeed, they are cute!

[voiceorason]

04:18 PM on 08/14/2011

they're so cute

[Broadway96]

03:34 PM on 08/14/2011

They are cute when they are little but will tear you up when they get bigger..lol

[Lee Spikey Nethersole]

07:26 AM on 08/15/2011

isn't that just part of their wonder? ;)

[grknight4]

08:11 PM on 08/15/2011

A pessimist lol

Relax life is short

[TheBestPatriot]

03:23 PM on 08/14/2011

Ewww.

[Stephen Benoit]

03:04 PM on 08/14/2011

It's quite nice to see that they've been successfully bred in captivity. The little buggers are suffering from a serious threat. Due to them being so inbred in the wild they've developed a form of cancer that's actually contagious. Breeding them in captivity and maybe even selectively to cut down on the inbreeding might help their population rebound a bit.

[Alec Radecki]

02:51 PM on 08/14/2011

soooooooooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute

[rockysparks]

02:50 PM on 08/14/2011

I showed this photo --- hiding the name "Tasmanian Devil" --- to my grandson. He guessed "baby mice?" "Baby rats?" "Baby squirrels?"

I then did my imitation of the Tasmanian Devil from the Bugs Bunny cartoons, just to give him a hint. He said, "Sarah Palins?"