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Earth's Spectacular Island Wildlife | BBC Earth
Earth's Spectacular Island Wildlife | BBC Earth
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Tiny Labord's chameleons, only 3 cm
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long,
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begin to hatch.
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>> They live for only 4 months,
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the shortest lifespan of any
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>> [music]
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>> land vertebrate.
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For this young [music] male,
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it's a race against time.
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>> [music]
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>> In the dry season,
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there is little food.
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>> [music]
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>> But his hatching is perfectly timed.
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It's the start [music] of the rainy
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season.
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>> The parched landscape
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>> [music]
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>> is transformed
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into a flush of green.
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Just what this [music] growing chameleon
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needs.
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>> As his eyes can move independently,
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he can spot a meal in any direction.
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And by locking both eyes onto a target,
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judge distance
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with deadly accuracy.
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>> [music]
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>> With so much food on offer,
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the male Labord's chameleon can grow
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five times his size
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in just 2 months,
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transforming into an adult male
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with an eye-catching horn.
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A female approaches.
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But the male has a rival.
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With such short lives, there's fierce
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competition for a chance to mate.
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>> Locusts.
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>> [music]
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>> They're normally solitary insects.
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But when there's an abundance of crops,
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their numbers can reach plague
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proportions.
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>> [music]
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>> These flightless hoppers can form armies
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a kilometer long.
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>> But they have only just begun
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on their path of destruction. [music]
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>> [music]
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>> At 5 weeks old,
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they morph into fully fledged [music]
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adults
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>> [music]
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>> and can take to the air
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with their wings.
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>> A swarm this size may only appear
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[music] once in a decade in Madagascar.
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>> Traveling over 80 kilometers a day,
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they can devour [music] 40,000 tons of
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vegetation.
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Including [music] the farmers' precious
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rice crops.
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>> On reaching the highlands, a plague is
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finally stopped
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by the heavy mountain rains.
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Wet wings prevent the locusts from
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flying
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until eventually the swarm runs out of
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food
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and dies.
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With nightfall,
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the competition in the jungle
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intensifies
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as many of Borneo's 180 species of frog
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now burst into song.
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All singing for a mate.
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The bigger the frog,
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the louder the call.
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But this male tree hole frog is barely
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bigger than a fingernail.
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He'll need to do something special if he
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wants to be heard by a nearby female.
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She may only be meters away,
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but the chorus from the other frogs is
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deafening.
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This tiny male, however,
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has a trick.
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He searches for a tree hole.
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The size and shape of the hole are
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critical.
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He then does something remarkable.
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It begins with a sound check.
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Too low.
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He changes pitch.
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Too high.
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That's it.
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At this specific frequency,
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the tree hole resonates,
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amplifying the sound
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and broadcasting the call
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more than 50 m across the forest.
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For a female,
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it's music to her ears.
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With superb directional hearing,
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she can home in on his calls.
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Finally, the tiny couple meet.
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Hidden from predators, the tree hole
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will go on to make an ideal nursery for
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their tadpoles.
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With little to eat down here,
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many of Borneo's terrestrial mammals are
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smaller than on mainland Asia.
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Confined to her protected forest
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sanctuary,
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the exceedingly rare Bornean sun bear.
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Just over a meter long, it's the
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smallest bear in the world.
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This fallen branch is a valuable treat.
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Filled with wood grubs and beetles.
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Nothing is wasted.
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Even a foul tasting millipede.
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But it's not enough to sustain even this
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little bear.
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The real prize sits high above.
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Guided by her exceptional sense of
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smell.
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It's the sweet scent of honey.
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For larger bears, this beehive may be
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out of reach.
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But being small helps defy gravity.
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With sharp claws and rough pads on her
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feet,
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she can ascend 40 m
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higher than any other bear.
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>> To make it in Borneo's jungle treetops,
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this miniature acrobat has become more
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monkey
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than bear.
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In 1972,
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a pet shop imported several dozen
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Jackson's chameleons from East Africa.
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But,
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they escaped.
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>> Slowly but surely, [music]
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they found their way out of the suburbs
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>> and up
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into Oahu's forests.
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>> [music]
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>> And that's where the trouble began.
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Horned males joined the escaped females.
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Free from predators
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and with an abundance of food,
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they began eating their way through
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Hawaii's unique wildlife.
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>> Invasive species like these chameleons
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have contributed to the extinction of
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over 500 native species.
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Attempts are now being made to recapture
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the chameleons.
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Part of a much larger effort to save
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Hawaii's native wildlife.
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Even in the most unlikely places.
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In Hawaii's busiest city, Honolulu,
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a white tern chick is just a few days
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old.
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With no nest to protect him,
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he must cling to his street perch
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while he waits for his parents to
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deliver regular supplies of squid and
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small fish.
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These birds were revered by the ancient
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Polynesians.
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They knew that if they saw a white tern
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with a bill full of fish, it was a sure
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sign that land was nearby.
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And yet, it's likely the arrival of
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humans
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wiped them out from the main islands.
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But now the turns are making a comeback.
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In the last 60 years
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their numbers have risen from a single
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pair
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to over 2,000 birds.
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Busy roads may help keep predators away
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and trees planted within the city
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provide safety and prime nesting
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habitat.
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In 6 weeks time this chick will take to
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the air.
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>> Fiercely fought over in World War II
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it's now home to 3 million nesting
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seabirds. [music]
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Including the biggest colony [music] of
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Laysan Albatross
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One 4-month-old chick
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is especially hungry.
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Like the thousands other albatross
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chicks,
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he's still flightless and dependent on
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his parents for food.
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But his mother
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is the oldest known living bird in the
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wild.
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An astonishing 67 years old.
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He hasn't seen her for over a week.
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In the searing tropical sun,
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he pants to cool down.
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And can only watch
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while other parents return to feed their
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chicks.
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Finally,
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after two long weeks of waiting,
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the world's oldest known bird
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appears.
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Identified as Z333 on her leg band,
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she's more affectionately known
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as Wisdom.
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To her chick, though,
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she's instantly recognizable
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as Mom.
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>> In her extraordinary lifetime,
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Wisdom has flown almost 5 million
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kilometers
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and successfully raised 37 chicks.
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Today, she's surrounded by three
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generations
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of her extended family.
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But this exceptional great-grandmother
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has no time to rest,
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only staying for 10 minutes
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before leaving
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to search for more food.
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The chick may have one of the most
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experienced moms in the world, but his
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future is uncertain.
