Episode 279: Keen on Kākāpō
All Creatures Podcast
All Creatures Podcast
4.7 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:49.3 | Over 7 million different animals inhabit our planet. |
| 0:57.0 | The thing about the cockapoe, Angie, which makes it even more unique compared to a lot of birds. |
| 1:03.0 | Like we said, this is a big bird. |
| 1:05.0 | What can they teach us? |
| 1:07.0 | So researchers think this low metabolic rate has developed over time because they are flightless, right? |
| 1:13.5 | So they don't need that crazy intense. |
| 1:17.1 | Many species are in crisis and need your help. |
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| 1:30.6 | Welcome to All Creatures Podcast. This is Chris. |
| 1:31.8 | And I'm Angie. |
| 1:40.4 | The Cacapo. Finally, finally, finally. This has been on the list for a long time. And we finally are getting to it. |
| 1:43.3 | For some reason, I don't know why. It took this long. The Kakapo is not only the only |
| 1:46.4 | flightless parrot in the world, but it's also nocturnal and it's giant. It's big. And several other |
| 1:56.0 | real oddities, making it a weird but undeniably cute parrot. Well, we're going to learn a lot, |
| 2:04.8 | a lot, a lot about this bird and conservation, island conservation. The thing is the cockapoe |
| 2:12.2 | is one of the most unique birds on earth, like Angie was just saying, and it's critically |
| 2:18.1 | endangered. Today, there's only 202 total birds left on the latest census of Cacapo. And there is a |
| 2:28.4 | very focused conservation effort going on here in New Zealand to save the Cacopoe. And we'll talk a little bit about that today. |
| 2:35.4 | And we are learning a lot about trying to bring this species back from the brink that we can use around the world to save some of these very critically endangered birds and other animals on some of the strategies they're using. |
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