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issue During the early months of 1996, not long before Easter,
an amateur wildlife photographer named Christo Baars made his
way to the Australian island-state of Tasmania, where he set up
camp in an old airport shack within the boundaries of Mount
William National Park. Baars’s purpose, as on previous visits,
was to photograph Tasmanian devils, piglet-size marsupials
unique to the island’s temperate forests and moors. Because
devils are nocturnal, Baars equipped his blind with a cot, a
couple of car batteries, and several strong spotlights. For bait
he used road-kill kangaroos. Then he settled in to wait. The
devil, known to science as