Tasmanian devil killed at US zoo

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A Tasmanian devil has died at a zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a lump of asphalt was apparently thrown at it.

Police are now looking at CCTV footage, to work out if a member of the public or a zoo worker did it.

The animal suffered a serious injury to its skull, but somehow crawled to a log in its enclosure before dying.

The zoo is one of only two in the states which has Tasmanian devils, and had been hoping to breed them.