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Endangered Mallee O's of Sulawesi

so the Mallee o's are a very special bird from the island of Sulawesi which is an Indonesia they're endangered in the wild and we have very few of them but we're making more every year they have all sorts of vocalizations that you know don't even sound like they're from this planet so the males are a little larger and they're a little more colorful than the females they're monogamous at least through the season and I'm sorry I'm when I'm around Birds I can't not look at them it's so unnatural for me to like look at another man I know it's weird even though the malleus that we're raising here will never actually be released into the wild the information that we are gathering here that is being implied to work in the field to ensure that malleus will be preserved for future generations this is the male and this is the female and they're a pair and ever seen copulation not with this pair any conservation management program that we have here is really a dating service you know I'm paper these birds are supposed to be a good match now it doesn't always work just like any other dating service you have to try it out so the peanut is the malleus favorite thing ever peanuts are maleo crack and they will do anything for said peanut sharing a peanut is is a step in the right direction for a pair being bonded and nothing happens unless the pair is bonded so when the male has a peanut he'll make that noise that that little grunting to get the female's attention so that she can take it from them come on night he's been trying but she's not taking it sorry buddy give it enough time in the right environment it'll happen hey Barry goes like you know because when when you understand how much peanuts really mean to them how much they would do anything for peanut is so irresistible and when he actually gives it to you know his partner for the first time you know you're gonna have a strong pair see sweetest thing in the world now I hope we got a fertile egg you