The animal arrived on Tuesday night and zoo owners Yvonne and Greg Culell said it was experiencing a little jet lag.

Known as Midget, the four- year-old Tasmanian devil has attitude, opting to growl and show her teeth to a Mail-Times journalist and photographer.

Tasmanian rangers trapped Midget in the Dazzler Range in Narawntapu National Park in September last year.

She was exported to the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford for quarantine before a trip to the Taronga Zoo in Sydney and finally finding a home in Halls Gap at the zoo.

Mr Culell said Midget was free from a devil facial tumour disease threatening species survival in Tasmania.

He said Midget was enjoying her new home, but she was still becoming used to a change in surrounds.

She spent her first night at the zoo rearranging her new home, a Lake Fyans Caravan Park sponsored enclosure, scattering dead leaves and branches within her yard.

Mr Culell said her basic diet was whole rabbits. He asked any shooters to freeze rabbits whole and bring them into the zoo for Midget.

He said two male Tasmanian devils would join Midget at Halls Gap Zoo early next year.

Laura Poole