The Tasmanian Devil Unzoo is the first of its kind in the world: a zoo with no boundary walls or enclosures, allowing its animals to roam freely and come and go as they please. Owned and operated by the Hamilton family since 1979, the attraction was originally called the Tasmanian Devil Park and ran as a conventional zoo, featuring several orphaned Tasmanian devil pups as the main attraction. By the early 2000s, the devil facial tumor disease—an incurable transmissible cancer found in devil saliva, that passes through bite wounds—had decimated devil…
