1 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: Ruby. 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Rick Schwartz. 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: What does the world Marco went? 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 3: And this This is Amazing Wildlife. It's a podcast where 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 3: we explore unique stories of wildlife from around the world 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 3: and uncover fascinating animal facts. And this podcast is in 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 3: production with iHeartRadio's Ruby Studio and San Diego Zoo Wildlife 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 3: Alliance in international nonprofit conservation organization which oversees the San 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 3: Diego Zoo. And this amazing place, the San Diego Zoo 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 3: Safari Park. 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: That was my castaway as Dracula. 12 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 2: Translating a rare species. 13 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 3: I think this location is probably your most favorite at 14 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 3: this point. 15 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: I mean, friend, I am trying not to get so excited. 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 2: I think the shot, they can probably see it behind you, 17 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: so do you guys? Look Nyony. 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: For those of you who visually know what's going on, 19 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: we're at the walk About Australia behind the castaway right now. 20 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: So these are Yara. 21 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 4: And Maka And I'm super sick because this episode, Buddy, 22 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 4: I can't even focus. 23 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: I know now because this is going to air during 24 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: world cast. 25 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: Come out a little bit beforehand, yes, but this is 26 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 3: really a great opportunity for us to shine the spotlight 27 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 3: on what I even considered one of the more unique 28 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: species of bird that I have ever come across. And 29 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 3: when I first saw them, I thought, wow, these are 30 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: really unique. 31 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: This is cool. 32 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 3: But then we started to learn more about them. For 33 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 3: the anual Planet series that we filmed here a couple 34 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 3: of years back, we got to spend time with them 35 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 3: and I was like mind blown. So again, yes, for 36 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 3: anyone watching, you can see the cast Whorris behind us. 37 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,199 Speaker 2: We're at the cast were a habitat area. 38 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 3: For those of you that are listening, when you come 39 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 3: to this flypark, come to walk about us. Like Marco said, 40 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 3: this is sort of in the top back area behind 41 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 3: what looks. 42 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: Like the woolshed. Yeah. 43 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta go through it right and you see 44 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: it and you come. 45 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 3: Out the other side, and it's kind of this beautiful 46 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 3: little corner of this flypark that again they do such 47 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 3: a great job here where Yeah, we are in the 48 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 3: middle of southern California. We are in wow life habitat 49 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: that is inland from the ocean, so it's a bit 50 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 3: dry and almost desert like. Yeah, but when you come 51 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 3: here to the Fari Park, you come through walk about Australia, 52 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 3: you forget you're in southern California. 53 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: Oh, I know, man, it's such a vibe here too. 54 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 4: And you know, back in the day, this was an 55 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 4: area that was managing and to your point, this for me, 56 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 4: it's just magic. 57 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: You have the world gardens or fightstrees above us. 58 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 4: But now you know, I had to pass on the 59 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 4: baton because I got to get an awesome roles of 60 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 4: spokesperson just like you a Migel. And so we have 61 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 4: a wonderful, very passionate human being that is managing these 62 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 4: wonderful dinosaur birds. 63 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: Right, So let's talk about why. 64 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: Did you introduce yourself to our guests and our audience. 65 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,839 Speaker 3: Tell us your name and what's your title here. 66 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 5: My name is Anna, Hi everyone, and I'm a senior 67 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 5: zoo keeper here at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. 68 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 5: And yes, I do manage the castowaries. I've been with 69 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 5: them for about five years, about in twenty twenty is 70 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 5: when I took over from Marco, and it's just been 71 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 5: really amazing working with these guys. 72 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: So you're staying around twenty twenty, things improved. 73 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 4: Here, hold on, hold on, don't want to pull out 74 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 4: my castiwary talent. 75 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 5: Absolutely amazing and he really worked well with them, so 76 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 5: easy to take over from him because they just start 77 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 5: such great birds, and he had it all ready to go, 78 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 5: and it was just a turnkey situation. 79 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: You know, Anna's being really humble because she's remarkable. 80 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 4: You know what I love about the bird department is 81 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 4: we have so many different skill sets every department really 82 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 4: with wildlife. But when I came in, it was more 83 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 4: behavior oriented. Was my experiences, and and and many others 84 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 4: on the team showed me a lot, especially about reproduction 85 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 4: and nesting and just maintaining wonderful habitat. 86 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: So props to you and for doing amazing work. 87 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 3: Speaking of wonderful habitat, one of the things that again 88 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 3: we had mentioned kind of an intro. We're in this 89 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 3: beautiful like transformed area of Australia, but it is wooded, 90 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 3: it is dense forest. Can you tell us a little 91 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,119 Speaker 3: bit about cashworry habitat in the wild. 92 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 2: Where are they usually found? 93 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 3: Obviously we mentioned walking about Australia, so down under book, 94 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: maybe tell us a little bit about where they can 95 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 3: be found in the wild. 96 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 5: They can be found in New Guinea and northeast Australia, 97 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 5: so like the Queensland area. So it's generally a rainforest area. 98 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 5: They do prefer like old growth rainforests, so as you 99 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 5: can see the trees behind us for people who can see, 100 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 5: we've got these huge Ficus trees on our fighters trees. 101 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 5: We do have misters so when it gets warm, we 102 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 5: can increase the humidity with the misters and the birds 103 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 5: really love that. They are very much water creatures, so 104 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 5: we do have pools and wallows, and we do have 105 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 5: a new feature where we can take a stream and 106 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 5: fill up the wallow from the pool and they can 107 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 5: play in that in the afternoon pretty easily. So it's 108 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 5: a nice fun enrichment. 109 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 110 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 4: I really love that you mentioned their water creature is right, 111 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 4: because everyone forgets like. 112 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 5: Rat such good swimmer, exactly. 113 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 4: Right, and just being that group of birds and rat 114 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 4: tites we talked about, right, like Ostrich from Africa Kiwis 115 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 4: you know we help with Kiwi conservation here as well. 116 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 4: From New ze We have one of my favorites is 117 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 4: Zara from South America. But these guys, to your point 118 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 4: you said, Northeastern Australia and New Guinea, but this force 119 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 4: air is really really unique and especially what they eat, right, 120 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 4: Can you talk a little bit about what is this particular? 121 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: You see this big bird, right, so a giant claw. 122 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 2: This is god. 123 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 6: This is like someone's going to kill the animals, right, 124 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 6: I'm assuming, right. 125 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they well those eyes went way up, Amanda, 126 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 4: you're behind the see do you see those eyes grow 127 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 4: up in her head? 128 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: Yeah? I saw that. 129 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 2: Yeah. 130 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 5: They're very very ferocious. They're very predatory. No, I'm just kidding. 131 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 5: They love fruits. They love to scavenge around for fallen fruit, 132 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,679 Speaker 5: so anything that falls off the trees is fair game. 133 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 5: They do have a big, long, four and a half 134 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 5: inch claw. They kind of use that as a rig 135 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 5: to look through the leaf litter for yummy snacks. 136 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: Thank you. 137 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 4: I'm glad he pointed out the main purpose for that, right, 138 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 4: I mean, because I know you and I have both 139 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 4: seen it. But every now and again, if guests spend 140 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 4: some time here, you'll see the cast wearris and it 141 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 4: kind of reminds me of like a jaguar or a 142 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 4: leopard and a tea jungle area where they're watching their 143 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 4: step in a heavy force area. There's roots, there's leaves 144 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 4: and twigs, and to your point in that, you see 145 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 4: them doing it sort of like a raking behavior. When 146 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 4: they're going around right and early you mentioned, you know, 147 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 4: the joke about being a big scary bird. I always 148 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 4: kind of tell people like folks, folks who are listening 149 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 4: right now. If you're listening, you got a smartphone, If 150 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 4: you look up Cassawery, you're gonna hear or see something 151 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 4: like World's most. 152 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: Dangerous Bird, right. 153 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 4: And the Internet it's sensationalizes things quite a bit. But 154 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 4: I have but back me up, Anna, I mean I 155 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,679 Speaker 4: tell guests like, you know, it's kind of like a rhino, 156 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 4: you guys, I mean, we all know not to upset 157 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 4: a rhino for a very obvious reason. And I would 158 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 4: say the same thing about a castwhery, right. They have 159 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 4: the potential for defending themselves. And in this intent, it's 160 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 4: a bird. A female over six actually can talk about that. 161 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 4: The size alone, right of this. 162 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 5: Bird, Well, the females are about five six and they 163 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 5: weigh about one hundred and fifty ish pounds, whereas the 164 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 5: males are about five to two and they weigh about 165 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty five pounds. The males are a 166 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 5: little more relaxed and chill. The girls have a little 167 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 5: bit of a spicier added a. 168 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: Little sauce or the females saying they're more. 169 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 2: So when it comes to behavior. 170 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 3: If you have very specific difference as far as the 171 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 3: females are a little more spicy, maybe a little more 172 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 3: territorial aggressive, males a little more laid back. Is there 173 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: a reason we have seen why that might be for 174 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 3: survival or is it has to do with different roles 175 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 3: they play for the species? 176 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 5: Good questions, very good question. The females are the ones 177 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 5: who will meet up with the males and they hang 178 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 5: out for two to three weeks, They lay three to 179 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 5: five eggs for the male, and then they leave. The 180 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 5: male is actually responsible for incubating those eggs for fifty 181 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 5: to fifty five days, raising those babies for about a year. 182 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 5: So they're more chill, they're more tolerant. The females they kind. 183 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 2: Of get to do well. They kind of manage a. 184 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 5: Larger territory, whereas the males. Two or three males will 185 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 5: be within one female. It's almost like a ver. 186 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: We're expecting to see animal world is. 187 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 3: Where it's the male has one territory, he wanders amongst 188 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: the females. 189 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 5: This is flipped well, and that seems to be kind 190 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 5: of the way it is in the family that kind 191 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 5: of breaks off before flighted. You see that in Kiwi's 192 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 5: and ostrich and email also, and then it's more than 193 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 5: males that take on that parental role. 194 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: I love it. 195 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: And back to the rat tite concept you're saying, the 196 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: ostriches are is a kiwis castworries. Well, I love him 197 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: so much. 198 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 4: They're finding a dinosaurs anathona you know, you know, being 199 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 4: such a big bird. But also to your points, you 200 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 4: know the gender reversal, I absolutely love because think everyone 201 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 4: listening like Australia, think New Guinea, New Zealand. These are 202 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 4: islands that have really evolved to have really unique wildlife, right, 203 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 4: and so you see birds yeah, exactly, not the size 204 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 4: of a female, bigger, I mean to your point, And 205 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 4: it's the female right with the large territory, with the males. 206 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: She's dropped on those eggs and she's out. And it's 207 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: the dad. 208 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 4: When I think of Father's Day, I think of castle 209 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 4: like a macha rating Indiana right now? 210 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: Are male? 211 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? 212 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: He everyone for listening. 213 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,719 Speaker 4: The mail sits on the eggs for like fifty four 214 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 4: days straight and raises the babies for up to a year. 215 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 4: So if mom and daddy driving right now, Mom gives 216 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 4: some eyes to do that to your hobby and remind 217 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 4: them about the castary rolls, right and. 218 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 2: High five to the single dad. 219 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 4: Job all right, yeah, hi first job. Yeah right, that's great. 220 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 4: And you brought some props today that we can highlight 221 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 4: because it's so hard to describe the castory, but can 222 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 4: you start describing it? And I'm gonna pull some of 223 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 4: these bio facts that we have here visually and we 224 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 4: can go through them. 225 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: Is that pork for you? 226 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 2: Yeah? 227 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well makes it so unique and paid to Like 228 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: an Ostrich as an. 229 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 5: Example, Well, they're really really spectacular in their bright blue 230 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 5: coloring on their neck and then they have these two 231 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 5: little wattles that are bright red, so that's a big contrast. 232 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 5: And since their whole body is covered in feathers except 233 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 5: their head really and it's just these big, long black feathers. 234 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 5: It almost looks like a horse's mane. The feathers are 235 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 5: just real thick. 236 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna grab him because you brought some rick. Let 237 00:09:58,880 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: me show you here so. 238 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,839 Speaker 3: Anybody who listening and not watching, The feathers aren't wide 239 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 3: like you see with regular birds, like no pigeon, chicken, hawk, whatever, 240 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 3: like you said. 241 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 5: They mostly look like a piece of hair, but then 242 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 5: little tiny hairs off of the edge of it. And 243 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 5: the reason that castowaries have feathers, it's a dual feather. 244 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 5: There's two feather veins, and then it's got the little 245 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 5: tiny little feathers off the sides of it. And it's 246 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 5: to trap more air because it's really hot and humid 247 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 5: and it's hard for them to thermal regulate, so it 248 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 5: really helps trap more air. Creature is the most insulating thing, 249 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 5: so it really gives them this like nice little air 250 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 5: pocket around them. The other thing that it helps with 251 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,719 Speaker 5: is they are running through the rainforest. They can run 252 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 5: to thirty one miles an hour, so there is lots 253 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 5: of broken sticks and branches and such, so it kind 254 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 5: of gives them a little layer of bubble wrap around 255 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 5: their belly. 256 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 4: I bring up usually for a raincoat, you know, but 257 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 4: never thought that as well, you know, for insulation and anana. 258 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 4: You brought these two little things here, so let's describe it, right. 259 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 4: For thinking, the castaway, you look at this big feathered bird, 260 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 4: and on the sides, the wings actually are really really small, right, 261 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 4: These are flightless birds, rat tights I were talking about. 262 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, they're flightless, so ostrich can take their wings and 263 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 5: kind of move them around and dance a little bit. 264 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 2: Oh right. 265 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,599 Speaker 5: Cassowaries don't even have that ability. They don't have the 266 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 5: musculature the tendence to even do that, So their wings 267 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 5: just kind of hang down by their sides and they're 268 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 5: just a little bit above their leg right against their body. 269 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 5: You'll see it almost looks like little black pencils or 270 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 5: little black chopsticks. 271 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right now, yeah, acts that's a good point. 272 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, like little black chopsticks. 273 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,439 Speaker 4: Or if people a little more feather orange or aware, 274 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,599 Speaker 4: or when a feather's just growing out, the little like 275 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 4: casing around it kind of looks like that, like a premature. 276 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 5: Feather, and they're like, you know, they can be as 277 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 5: long as like twelve inches long. Yeah, and some of 278 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 5: them are shorter, but they do molt out every single year, 279 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 5: just like their feathers. So I do find them around 280 00:11:58,880 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 5: the exhibit. 281 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 3: You mentioned, and that the bodies feathers. Marco's saying that 282 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 3: they're like a raincoat. They're a bubble wraptor installation. Why 283 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 3: do we have dangly chopsticks off the wing. 284 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 4: I asked the same question I've wondered about, and I 285 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 4: don't know if you've experienced this Anna once before. 286 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: So we have four castwarris here at the Safari Park, two. 287 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 4: That our guests can experience and walk about, and we 288 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 4: have two others in our bird conservation center where they're 289 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 4: focused on helping with population. 290 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 5: Right. 291 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: So Kaya, she's the big female. 292 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 2: Reputation personality. 293 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 4: But what I was going to say when I first 294 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 4: was introduced to Kaya again, you know, some animals communicat 295 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 4: in different ways. So she wanted to show me she's 296 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 4: a big bird, and I needed to watch myself, you know, 297 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 4: which I totally respect. So what she did is actually 298 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 4: came towards me, facing me, and she flared out those 299 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 4: things to me. And that was the only time, you too, 300 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 4: that I've ever seen any use of those casings, you know, 301 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 4: the rudimentary feathers. Was that to present more of a 302 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 4: threatening position to make sure that I knew and it 303 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 4: worked back the way we were intimidated. 304 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: I mean, we're making Jack. 305 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 4: So I also want to point out what makes your 306 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 4: job so unique, I think, and props to all the 307 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 4: work that you do with these animals, and that It's 308 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 4: also a term that we use here into world called 309 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 4: protected contact. 310 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 2: Right. So for instance, we're not. 311 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 4: Going to go in with maybe an animal like an 312 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 4: elephant or a jaguire, right, or a tiger, And we 313 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 4: want to do that with a castory as well. 314 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 1: We have good relationship with these birds, but right we're 315 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: not going to be going in. 316 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 5: No, there is no reason to go in with the cassuary. 317 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 5: I mean, their first line of defense is always to run. 318 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 5: But why would we want to scare them, you know? 319 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 5: And why would we want to The only time they're 320 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 5: going to use that claw in a dangerous manner is 321 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 5: if they feel cornered and nervous or scared. So I 322 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 5: don't want to put them in that position. I don't 323 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 5: want to put myself in that position. My kids would 324 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 5: not appreciate it. But they are very well trained. They 325 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 5: know how to shift. We can move them from exhibit 326 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 5: to exhibit, we can put them in the barn for 327 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 5: a few minutes. They do go into crates if we 328 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 5: do need to transfer them somewhere else, So there's no 329 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 5: need for us to necessarily get in the same space 330 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 5: with them. Even when they're being vaccinated. We do have 331 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 5: our vet staff come out and they see our vet 332 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 5: staff at least once a month, if not more, and 333 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 5: we practice giving their injections and doing a fake exam 334 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 5: so that when it comes to the real time to 335 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 5: do it, they're not worried. It's a no big deal. 336 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I see, it's great voluntary inoculations. 337 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 4: But it's one of many aspects for the health of 338 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 4: the animals under our care right to do these amazing things. 339 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: So I absolutely love that. 340 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 4: And you know, we got distracted with other attributes of Castworry, 341 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 4: but I wanted to say, because we were describing the feathers, 342 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 4: can you also talk about the foot because you brought 343 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 4: a really cool mold of the foot of a. 344 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: Kind of a couple times. 345 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's bigger than my hand, you guys. 346 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: So it's so for those of you are listening, he's holding. 347 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 3: Up a casting of a castworry footprint and yeah, definitely 348 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 3: bigger than a human hand, right, pretty. 349 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: Big, right, Yeah. 350 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 5: So she has a really big, giant middle toe and 351 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 5: then there's two toe on either side, and that inside 352 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 5: toe is the one that's got the four and a 353 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 5: half inch long nail. We weren't able to get a 354 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 5: good cast of the toenail because it really doesn't touch 355 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 5: down on the ground. But her right, Yeah, good print 356 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 5: looks exactly like a dinos and. 357 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: People always bring that up. 358 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 4: And yeah, I tell people because again, like it started 359 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 4: with the dinosaurs as a kid, and when they look 360 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 4: at a castilorry, how can you not think of the dinosaur. 361 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 4: There is one called an oliver raptor, which is a 362 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 4: dinosaur that eight eggs. It looks remarkably similar to this animal. 363 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 4: Now we're not saying there's scientific evidence of a dinosaur 364 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 4: linked to a castawary, but there's a lot of good 365 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 4: opinion and some evidence it shows that hers are modern. 366 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 3: I think if you look at the skeletule structure of 367 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 3: what we've seen in fossils, you look at the skeletal 368 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 3: structure of the castwerry. 369 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: If nothing else, the castwerry allows us to imagine how 370 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 2: dinosaurs would move. Oh, exactly, look right, just on a 371 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 2: much larger scale, totally. 372 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 4: I mean everything about it, even including the eggs, right, 373 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 4: And can you describe to our listeners, Will I grab 374 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 4: this object here that you've brought, what does it look like? 375 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 5: The egg is a big green egg. It's almost like 376 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 5: a lime green It's almost about the size of a 377 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 5: very large avocado or a mango, but it's a really 378 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 5: bright green color. And you would think that that green 379 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 5: color would stand out like a sore thumb in them 380 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 5: in all the rainforest, but with all the different greens 381 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 5: and stuff, it just totally blends in and is totally camouflaged. 382 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 4: I know. 383 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: I love that. 384 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, for those that are only listening and 385 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 3: not watching Marco's God in his Lap now a makeshift 386 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 3: nest with three eggs, they are I think mangoes are good. 387 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: I want to point out right, yeah, yeah. 388 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 3: But yeah, they're bout the size of a mango, but 389 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 3: the coloration almost remind me of a not quite right watermelon. 390 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 3: Colors in the sense to speckled, are not striped, but 391 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 3: in the sense of the coloration of those shades of green, 392 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 3: and absolutely sitting out here with us right now is like, well, 393 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 3: those are quite obvious, but yeah, perfect camouflage in the wild, 394 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 3: like we see a lot of the bright parrots sometimes 395 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 3: blend in perfectly into the trees because those colorations break 396 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 3: up very well in the sunlight and everything else. So 397 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 3: do we know why they're I mean, obviously we just 398 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 3: said they're camouflage, but is there a particular mineral in 399 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 3: their body or what isn't that makes it green? 400 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: To me, it's more of the being a forest bird. 401 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 4: So I think of an animal like a tinumu, remember Anna, 402 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 4: like that beautiful green egg that a tinamu has, very similar, 403 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 4: but they're both terrestrial or ground dwelling animals, so it 404 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 4: has to do with that. I think it's more camouflage, 405 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 4: right and can when I think about a tinumu egg 406 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 4: as well, which I know Ron is. 407 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: Also part of the team here in Australia. 408 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 4: He has a really cool fact that the tinumu is 409 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 4: actually the living descendant of the Tyrannosaurus racks. 410 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: Just want to point that out too as well. 411 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 4: So even the smallest little word right, all right, Ron, 412 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 4: you're being called out here, you know the. 413 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 2: Show Who do you Think you are? 414 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: Like? 415 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: I'd love to see that interview, right, little. 416 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 4: Quail looking thing, you know I identify as a t rex? No, 417 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 4: But my brain's buzzing because there's so much to talk 418 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 4: about these birds. But the one that I absolutely love 419 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 4: for Meana and Rick, it's that they're forest twellers to 420 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 4: neither forest guardians. You talked about it a bit already 421 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 4: being a frugal or an animal that eats a lot 422 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 4: of fruit out there in the wilds and the forest 423 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 4: where they're from, right, Yeah, and. 424 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 5: Then one really cool thing about that is they are 425 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 5: really good at seed dispersal. Yes, So in areas where 426 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 5: there are cassowaries, the species diversity goes up by twenty 427 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 5: five percent. Yeah, so it's really important that we have 428 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 5: castawerries out there to keep that biodiversity. 429 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 4: Yeah, giving to point those old growth forests, and I 430 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 4: had read it's over thirty different species of endangered trees 431 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 4: that grow best when they go through the gut of 432 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 4: a cassowerry. I mean, the intestines are so short that 433 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 4: fruit like a whole mango, which they can consume, one 434 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 4: of the only animals in that area that can swallow 435 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 4: a whole mango down. 436 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 1: And then because it's a short digestive track, it doesn't 437 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: really absorb all the material, all the meat of the fruit. 438 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 4: So when they defecate, when they go poop, you know, 439 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 4: they're putting out a big old thing, maybe a mango 440 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 4: seed or a pie seed, depending on the fruit. And 441 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 4: I had to talk about my favorite poop the other 442 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 4: day and guess what I talked about. 443 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 2: It's what I'm talking about. 444 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, you can tease me. All you want to listen 445 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: is with my thing. I'm sure you do it too. 446 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 4: And in the morning, you know, you have to check 447 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 4: out where the animals have been moving around in their activity. 448 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 4: And I would love to inspect the castlory poop every 449 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 4: day because it looks so cool, right, can use. 450 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 5: Big chunks of stood in it. I mean you'll see 451 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 5: like a whole quarter of an apple, a bit of 452 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 5: a pair. You know, you can definitely recognize what types that. 453 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 5: You can see pieces of honeydew melon. In the wild, 454 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 5: they do have a fruit called the castawary plum, which 455 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 5: is very, very toxic. The only species that eats it 456 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 5: is the castawary. Because their digestive track is so short, 457 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,360 Speaker 5: it's not really toxic to them. Isn't that insane? 458 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 3: And I think initially, I mean we kind of talked 459 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 3: about their seed dispersive, so it gives the answer. But 460 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 3: I think initially someone who would hear that, oh, food 461 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: comes out only half digested at most, what's the point 462 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 3: of that. But they can glean the energy they need 463 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 3: from it, and then the forest benefits tremendously because they're 464 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 3: basically pooping out fertilizer with the seeds and giving the 465 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 3: seeds the nutrients they need then to sprout and grow. 466 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 3: The connection between animals and plants. 467 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: And you know, just like in general, is so so amazing. 468 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 2: Sometimes it really is. 469 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 5: And sometimes the feces will grow like a white fuzz 470 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 5: to it. Sometimes it's an iridescent blue. Wow, it's so interesting, 471 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 5: like the next morning. 472 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: Rainbow. 473 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 5: It just looks different at different times of the year. 474 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 5: I think in the winter we see more of a 475 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 5: blue tint to the poop. So I don't know what 476 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 5: kind of a fungus yeah is growing on it, but 477 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 5: it's just interesting to see how it changes. 478 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 4: It's all those nuances of being a forest animal, right right, 479 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 4: not only nesting, trying to track the mate can be difficult. 480 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 4: I mean you mentioned the female's dominant one with a 481 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 4: bunch of males in her territory, but you know they 482 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 4: got to find each other, right. 483 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: Can you talk about what makes a cassiary vocal? 484 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,479 Speaker 2: These birds are huge, These birds are big. How can 485 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 2: you not see each other? A forest? 486 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 4: I mean it's a thick rainforest, friend, you know, I 487 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 4: mean I've been in places where a lot of people 488 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 4: and I have trouble seeing my husband. 489 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 1: And actually, I'm going to admit something right now. 490 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 4: I use a peacock hall because, for instance, will make 491 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 4: the only places where he gets very excited. He's kind 492 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 4: of a labrador runs off, you know, he knows. I 493 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 4: mean that's in a good way. He's very loving and 494 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 4: I love him very much. But when he gets excited, 495 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 4: I do a call, a bird call to get his attention, 496 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 4: you know, because he knows that call is me, and 497 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 4: it works. 498 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 2: Oh, I feel like you are basically doing what castiworries 499 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 2: do to find each other. Maybe maybe maybe might be 500 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 2: a little more primitive. 501 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 4: You know. 502 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 2: How do castaworries find each other? Even though they're big 503 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 2: birds and they cannot be seen in the forest. 504 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 3: They can't see girl because it's a dense forest far 505 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 3: And I mean, I will admit I'm surprised. A bird 506 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 3: that's weighing over one hundred pounds is extremely quiet too. 507 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 3: It's amazing how quiet they are, even walking in the 508 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 3: leaf litter. So Anna, how do they find each other 509 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 3: in the forest. 510 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 5: Well, they do make these low booming noises. And when 511 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 5: Maka and Yard do it in the barn. I can 512 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 5: actually feel it in my chest before I hear it, 513 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 5: and then it kind of subsides again and then I 514 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 5: can't hear it, but I can still feel it. 515 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 2: So it's a sub sonic sound, so it's so low. 516 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 5: You can't hear it, but then it's a boom. Marco, 517 00:21:59,000 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 5: would you like to do the bar? 518 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not there get at it, but I'm 519 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 4: gonna track. It's kind of like that, all right, sound care? 520 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: Here we go. It's like a but it's like very 521 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: white deep. It's like very white could go even ten 522 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: times for those of you who knew very white is 523 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: do any of you back then looking at your face? 524 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: Cheese? 525 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: No, I'm calling it the young one out. But anyway, 526 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: the call, it's so deep. 527 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 4: It's the deepest vocal of any bird on the planet, 528 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 4: and it's wicked. It reminds me of elephants, is anything 529 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 4: same thing? They have a really low for you, Yeah, 530 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 4: and it travels for them across savannahs. But to your point, 531 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 4: Anna and Ricka the ecosystem. 532 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: For a castworry. Their calls gotta go way. 533 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 5: Out there right, definitely, And so both of them will 534 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 5: call to each other and so they'll do basically like 535 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 5: an echolocation type of situation the lower frequencies. So that's 536 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 5: how they do find each other. 537 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I got distrack in my head and thought 538 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 1: like I went like the cassary, like the castaway. 539 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 2: Can you hear me? They're singing through the bars of 540 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 2: the bird world. 541 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 5: Well, one thing that really does help the cast to 542 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 5: where carry that low frequency sound further is the cask 543 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 5: on their head. It's like a little helmet. 544 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 3: I was going to say, we talked about the little 545 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 3: stubby wings. There's a lot of similarities that they have 546 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 3: with others in their families. So this is an ostrich emu, 547 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 3: but this is unique. 548 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're holding a replica everyone who are not watching. 549 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 4: Eventually all this is going to be on YouTube our 550 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 4: YouTube channel by the way, But yeah, we have a replica. 551 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: And can you describe this thing? What's on top of 552 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: the head? 553 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it's plastic. Nobody get worried. It's 554 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 5: not real, I promise. So underneath this helmet or cask 555 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 5: is a spongy material and then it's basically fingernail material 556 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 5: over the top. 557 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 4: Basically, if you're listening on touching nails oh yeah, let 558 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 4: me do it here holding them out there, we go. 559 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, hollow, it's hollow, So that helps act to amplify 560 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,120 Speaker 5: those low booming noises. The other thing that this cast 561 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 5: does which is really really helpful is when they're running 562 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 5: and they can run up to thirty one miles an 563 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 5: hour through the four Yeah, sure, in a dense rainfores, 564 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 5: what they do is they stick their head down really 565 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 5: low and then they push through the rainforest. It acts 566 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 5: almost like a little makeshift machety for that. 567 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. 568 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,199 Speaker 3: And so for those that aren't watching that are only 569 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 3: listening a couple of times, it is kind of like 570 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 3: a helmet, but it's more of a fin shape, almost 571 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 3: like a dorsal fin. 572 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, like a dorsal fin. And the males is thin 573 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 5: at the top, okay, and the females is really wide. 574 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 3: We had mentioned that this is to help amplify the 575 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 3: sound helps coming through the forest. Do they use it 576 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: to defend themselves when fighting? 577 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 4: Is it strictly the feet like you know, I've also 578 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 4: read that there are studies of blood being circulated through 579 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 4: this material, So actually you go help in thermal regulation 580 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 4: a thermori. 581 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 2: It's like the ears of an elephant. 582 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say the exact same thing. 583 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe on a colder day, the castlory will 584 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 4: constrict the vessels up above, so we restrict the movement 585 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 4: of the blood into the cast. They don't keep the 586 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 4: blood nice and warm in the body, or conversely right 587 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 4: and open up the capitillaries let the blood flow, kind 588 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 4: of like if you guys have a dog at home 589 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 4: and gets hot and pent it's their way of keeping cool. 590 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 1: The blood cools by the panting process. So it's a cast. 591 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: So a lot of cool things about this, and you know, 592 00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: it's great to get. 593 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 4: One odd fact that read about this cast is that 594 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 4: they usually always curve a little to the right. 595 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: I don't know why that is, you. 596 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 6: Know, I've no because there's a hemisphere. Oh yeah, my 597 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 6: eyes rolled so back right now. But it was really funny. 598 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 6: Oh you guys, you're killing it with these jokes. 599 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 3: No. 600 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 4: Oh, but that brings me one other point too. I 601 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 4: don't think we talked about it. There are three different 602 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 4: kinds of cassaaries right in it. 603 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 5: Yes, there are. There's the southern castawary, which is the 604 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 5: castery we have here at the Safari Park. There's a 605 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 5: Northern Castawary and then there's the dwarfs, and the southern 606 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 5: Castaway is the biggest of that. 607 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, and amazing. 608 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 4: And in the past we've had castwarries at the Zoo 609 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 4: and also here at the Safari Park. 610 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 1: Remember, and we're gonna, I know, we're going to aid ourselves. 611 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: Way back in the day, there. 612 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 4: Used to be an area called the Rainforest Habitat, which 613 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 4: is where the practice line for a zip line is now. 614 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: And there was a dwarf. 615 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 5: Castword and she was the cutest, right, she's sweetest, as. 616 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 4: Colorful but adorable. Higher mountain ranges of those areas of New. 617 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 5: Guinea, the much smaller I think around her, like seventy 618 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 5: five pounds. 619 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 2: We're talking about birds, So seventy bird such a big bird. 620 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, totally Okay, So we have covered quite a bit, 621 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 2: Yeah we did. 622 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 3: Is there anything you wanted to share with our audience 623 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 3: about Castworris that we haven't touched on yet. 624 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 5: Well, I do want to say that World Castwery Days 625 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 5: coming off September twenty six, and we're going to be 626 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 5: out here all day on this dep with a bunch 627 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 5: of bio facts to share with everybody. The ones we 628 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 5: talked about exactly like the ones we talked about, and 629 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 5: we're going to have people here giving talks. We're going 630 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 5: to be giving them special treats that you can watch 631 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 5: them eat. We're going to be filling up their wallows 632 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 5: so you can watch them play in the little It's 633 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 5: going to be a fun day. 634 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 4: And all that information check off the website stz s 635 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 4: at Fari Park dark org and they're called Wildlife Awareness Days, 636 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 4: right so, and this one is going to be for 637 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 4: World Castwory Day, so super stoked and again it's right 638 00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 4: here Castuary Deck. 639 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: Talk about Australia is where you want to go? 640 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 5: Right Anna, definitely thanks well. 641 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 3: Before we go though, we always like to ask our 642 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 3: guests a little special question and you can get as 643 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 3: personal or as vague as you'd like. But we do 644 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 3: understand that a lot of our audience are up and 645 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 3: common conservationists and wildlifecare specialist and veterinarians of all ages, 646 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 3: and we like to get the story of our guests 647 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 3: how they got to where they are, so maybe our 648 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 3: audience can start to focus on things to get them 649 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 3: if they want to eventually be trained by you to 650 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 3: take over like Marco trained you so how do you 651 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 3: get your. 652 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 2: Start as a wildlfcare specialist for Castworris. 653 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 5: I actually got my start. I do have a degree, 654 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 5: and I started a couple of smaller jews that were 655 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 5: under the AZA accreditation, and then I had a friend 656 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,360 Speaker 5: send me a job offer that was listed on AZA 657 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 5: for here for doing the overnight condor shit racing, and 658 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 5: so I applied for it. Of course, there was like 659 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 5: one hundred and some odd people that apply for an 660 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 5: overnight position, so I was not I would get it, 661 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,959 Speaker 5: but they only interviewed seven people and I was one 662 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 5: of the ones who got it. So I did that 663 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 5: for three years before I got hired on at the 664 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 5: Bird Department part time. So I mean, it is a 665 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 5: long road, and you know, you just have to gain 666 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 5: experience as you go. Working in rescue situations with wildlife 667 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 5: is a really good way to like learn and develop 668 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 5: your skills so that when you get to the point 669 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 5: where you know you're graduating college and you're looking for places, 670 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 5: you are much more valuable and the things you already 671 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 5: know that they're not going to have to teach us. 672 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 4: That's really good advice and I love you mentioned the 673 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 4: easy A website, The American Associations using aquarium. So a 674 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 4: lot of people were interested. So I got that website. 675 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 4: There's a lot of cool postings. Obviously we want you 676 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 4: to come here. That's also the San Diego Zoo, the Falins. 677 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 4: Paige just want to point out under careers. But to 678 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 4: your point, you know, you never know what's going to happen. 679 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 4: Hundreds of people interviewed seven and you. 680 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: Got it in a banana. 681 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was very shocked, but I mean it was 682 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 5: all overnight ships. You know, you've got to do the 683 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 5: grunt work sometimes to get where you want to be. 684 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 2: What a great story, Thank you, thank you. 685 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 5: It was great talking to you. 686 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: A great day you two friends. 687 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 2: God, that was so much fun. Wreck guy, I love 688 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 2: these birds. Can we have to amaze We kept it 689 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 2: under two hours? I know. 690 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 4: Admittedly I went back and I heard our thick built 691 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 4: episode and I'm so excited. I was trying to like 692 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 4: share the little limelight because these birds, I mean, they 693 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 4: get me so amped up because they're so cool and 694 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,719 Speaker 4: just the fact, you know, we talked about all these 695 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 4: different attributes that they have. You and I were earlier 696 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 4: talking about just the vocal and itself. How you meat 697 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 4: that is right, I mean in a forced habitat, and 698 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,719 Speaker 4: that kind of reminds me of our next episode. 699 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: We're kind of diving into another jungle. 700 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 3: Before we jump into the I wanted to go back 701 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 3: and reflect a little bit on an interview we just 702 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 3: had because we're talking about world cast worried and coming 703 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 3: up when the events are happening here at the sorry 704 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 3: part before that that'll be happening after this episode comes out, 705 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 3: And I started thinking, well, why have a world castwordy day? 706 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 2: Why is that important? 707 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 3: And it brings awareness to this really awesome species. Obviously 708 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 3: you well you're super excited about them. 709 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 2: I think they're fascinating. This is I'll get out. 710 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 3: But one thing Anna had mentioned too was that that 711 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 3: seed dispersal, that relationship in the forest, that improvement of 712 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 3: forest diversity in general for plants, which then affects insects, bugs, birds, 713 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 3: mammals everybody else. It's a great reminder that even if 714 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 3: you look at it as you walk by and go out, 715 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 3: it's a fascinating animal. It's so cool a dinosaur moving 716 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 3: on through. A reminder that every species we may or 717 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 3: may not see it on the surface, has such an 718 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 3: important role in our wildlife world in the world we 719 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 3: rely on for fresh water and resources that it just 720 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 3: hits home again how important conservation is in the work 721 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 3: that this organization does. 722 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 2: It we're blessed to work for. So I just want 723 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:38,479 Speaker 2: to bring that up. 724 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 4: No, that's great, but literally you know, but also remind 725 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 4: even an animal like a rattle siku. I've learned that 726 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 4: this versus allfice. So we're all interconnected, right, so little 727 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 4: and so we were focusing like you know, so we 728 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 4: have different conservation of them hitting like the Australia forest aies. 729 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 4: We talked about New Guinea, but we're gonna travel over 730 00:30:58,760 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 4: to Africa, right. 731 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 3: We're gonna try to Africa next. And by Africa, I 732 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 3: mean probably the San Diego Zoo. When I said that, 733 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 3: it's cool because this species also relies on a it's 734 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 3: like a subsonic communication because of. 735 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 2: The forests, like the like the castword, but it's not 736 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 2: a bird this time. It's a lot of birds. We're 737 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 2: gonna go check out. 738 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 3: So I invite everybody to please subscribe if you haven't already, 739 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 3: or follow us on social media whatever it might be, 740 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 3: and be sure to tune in next time when we 741 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 3: go talk to another Wildlifecare specialist about another species that's 742 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 3: not a bird, that has a very awesome low sound 743 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 3: that we can't even hear. 744 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,959 Speaker 2: In fact, the predators they live amongst can't even hear 745 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 2: it either. 746 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm super Sike. I can't wait for it. Well, I'm 747 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: Marcott and I'm Rich Schwartz. 748 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and for watching. 749 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 3: For more information about the San Diego Zoo and San 750 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 3: Diego Zoo Safari Park, go to s d zw a 751 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 3: dot org. Amazing Wildlife is a production of iHeartRadio. Our 752 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 3: supervising producers are Nikkia Swinton and Dylan Fagan, and our 753 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 3: sound designers are Sierra Spreen and Matt Russell. For more 754 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 3: shows from iHeartRadio, check out the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 755 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 3: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.