However, fellow residents other housed at the conservation facility weren't quite as enamoured with the icy, frigid conditions

"The smaller mammals - the potoroos, bandicoots, bettongs, wallabies - they're just bunkered down," Aussie Ark general manager, Tim Faulkner said.

"They just want it to go away.

"But when it comes to the devils, they're thriving.

"One interesting thing with devils is they have a really hard time staying cool.

"They love cold weather, they don't like hot weather.

"Devils can't cool down like us; their skin doesn't sweat.

"The only way they cool down is the blood circulating through those red ears of theirs'.

"Their feet and their pads have got thickened skin, and they've got a good layer of fat around their neck and the base of their tail at the body.

"Seeing those devils out in the snow, and the sound; they're a little quiet, a little timid, I think that's because of the conditions; there's snow falling, it's something that odd, but really it's business as usual for them."

When Tim took the drive up through Gloucester last Sunday to Aussie Ark he was surprised how much more snow there was than usual.

"The snow was down to where the tar starts!

What Aussie Ark has been up to this year:

"It was down to 1000 metres on the eastern side.

"It went from the sub alpine area, through the Antarctic beech forest, and down into the eucalyptus woodland. It was just incredible."

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