Assertion: thylacine's death | /r/AtLocation | her fifth or sixth year
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text: In 2008, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Menna Jones of the University of Tasmania published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science entitled "Life history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations" (Jones et al. 2008) in which it was noted that Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are now breeding at a much earlier age to counter the ravages of Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD); and then only once: "Before the disease, the modal female began seasonal breeding at age 2 and produced a litter annually for 3 years, with senescence and death occurring in her fifth or sixth year (Jones / Guiler / Pemberton).