Rum’un growls like Nosferatu and sports fur made from recycled school polo shirts, track pants and backpacks
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A “cheeky” Tasmanian devil that poos out footballs, growls like Nosferatu and is covered in papier-mache-like recycled fur has been unveiled as the new mascot of the state’s long-awaited AFL team.
Rum’un, which translates to Tasmanian slang for “an odd or eccentric person; a scallywag, or someone cheeky” in the Macquarie Dictionary, made his debut as the Tasmania Devils’ latest recruit at an event on Tuesday evening.
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