Endangered Seabirds Making a Comeback, Dino Fossils with Skin Found, and a "No Smoking" Plane Grounding
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:30.4 | Once again, welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home. Marcus Paff and Reggie Rizzou with you. On today's |
| 0:35.5 | episode, the rabbits are gone, so the endangered |
| 0:38.3 | seabirds are making a comeback. We'll explain dinosaur fossils are found with a rare addition |
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| 0:57.2 | Well, for the first time in more than 40 years, Peruvian diving petrels, that's a small |
| 1:02.0 | seabird, have four active natural nests on Chenerelle Island. |
| 1:06.1 | This after a conservation group cleared the island of rabbits back in 2017. See, the rabbits were an invasive |
| 1:12.0 | species and they eroded the bird's nesting habitat, but no more. The unique Chilean ecosystem |
| 1:17.9 | has seen a resurgence in its seabird population these past few years, and in 2023, it was |
| 1:22.8 | announced the first seabird chick was born on the island in more than four decades. For context, Channerelle Island was once home to a thriving colony of Peruvian diving petrels |
| 1:32.3 | until the introduction of invasive rabbits and foxes in the last century led to their local extinction, |
| 1:37.3 | wiping out approximately 100,000 pairs. |
| 1:41.3 | So this recent achievement, bringing the petrels back, is the result of a collaboration |
| 1:45.2 | between Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Laboratory of Ecology of Diverciad de |
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