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a car graceful elegant and in some parts of the world in danger it's a race against time to the climber up top just yell down sayin that she saw in lightning strike to save his species time to hurry up i'm filled taurus fundaments molecules do much of my research in this jungle own i'll share my findings with a leader davison she's an environmental biologist and dr chrystal deal with among. you learn euro something to them so our team know it's do some science so as. big as welcome to techno fun filled tours joined by dr chrystal the earth and merida davison so just picture this you're deep in the rainforest of peru when suddenly a flock of red and blue magnificent creatures takes off in front of you they are beautiful but let me tell you they don't start out so pretty you have to be talking

about my cause i'm a bird biologist so in my day i've seen a lot of baby birds and i have to admit i mean they are bald and can be pretty ugly but i mean it's also ugly that they're cute because they're still associated with the rain forest kind of like their mascot but they're not so ubiquitous and aren't there any major species and they're at risk because of habitat lot of saloon because when the habitat is in trouble these birds are in trouble and we join a team of scientists down there that are working hard to make sure it doesn't happen let's take a look. elusive charismatic cause or undeniably stars of the rain forest and there's a special place in peru where it's still possible to see macaws and all their wild glory that is if you don't mind a little travel. and we're heading to the tumble ponds a research center

a place so deep in the proving amazon it's taken us two days on this boat just to get there. there are sixteen species of macaws left in the wild down from more than twenty the populations of all of the species remaining are on the decline . seven such as the blue throated macaw in danger of becoming extinct why. because of deforestation close to three hundred thousand square miles of amazon rain forest gone since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. timber and we're culture and mining. then there's the illegal pet trade it's not easy being one of the world's most beautiful birds pack these these juvenile. to bank to smuggle than and more than half of the an individual dying during this process. any hawkinson is the fuel

leader for the macall project at the tumbled pata national reserve she's one of a team of researchers who are using science to save the macaws why study because our very special and they're intelligent and yet they face a lot of threats and their habitats today's mission takes is deep into the reserves for those threats are constantly mad play where in the middle of the breeding season tumble part is essentially a giant laboratory in the wild six species of macaws inhabit this thousand plus where miles of rain forest rain is a constant in winter but too much rain can be a problem. today we're going to see how a pair of two week old macaque chicks are fairing the odds are against both of them survived examining the chicks is a delicate operation. one lead veterinarian elizabeth

pore through gives louie oh preps for the chick exams on the ground any hawkinson gets ready to climb to their nest above i don't like heights but with nest close to one hundred feet up the team has no choice but to climb. macaws like deep cavities high up in old growth trees those spots are hard to come by even in a protective force like. this scarcity of mess leads to deadly fire. it's between vesting macabre parents and other macaws looking for a home they will kill chicks if a well harm the parents and they may cause such a disruption that the parents might be unwilling to return to the nest that's why the macabre project is researching manmade mess like this one called mandy lou once any reaches the nest she opens a special door to access the chicks separate from the opening the adult macaws used to get in an element inside our first peek at the hope for the next generation of

macaws. the frail pale chick is not what you'd expect but it is alive and any needs to get it down to the ground quickly safety is paramount for these vulnerable chicks any uses sanitizer on her hands to protect them from germs the bucket that will take them down is warmed with a hot water bottle because these chicks have no protection against the cold. dr for three years lou your first ways the chick and then photographs it and yes this is what i'm a car looks like in the first weeks of his life no hint of the jungle beauty it will become this chick is the first of the two to hatch like it sibling it's named after its nest mandy lu and you know not the interest of the other that

a man needs the earth in the city and there for them and they say i'm going on the wood nest like mending glue have been a big success story of tom a part of research here has shown that more cars can raise chicks in vs just as well as they do in natural nests. the veterinarian takes detailed body measurements to determine how the chick is doing at this stage of development. if lying through . then. then dilute you is taken out and photographed next to its order sibling. is normal and then there are those rich or those not in mine and i meant it in the beach only and on the or on the paternity. but i say you know it out of the earth. if you are in the car chick it's best to be first hatched because i'm a car mom typically neglects those that hatch later so the first chick that hatch says will receive all of her care and then the second tick that hatch as if she has

enough resources so care for that check text number three and four will usually die from starvation. even chick number two has at best a fifty fifty chance of survival is to open your own somebody most on the story and nothing in which i let a fit in here at the. end of those doing. this but isn't it sad that it appears. today both many chicks had a good checker. there's a new kind of nest being tested out at tumble part it's made of cement soaked burlap researchers want to see if it's more durable than wooden nests which only last a couple of years in the jungle. sixty five same as yesterday but today things don't seem to be going well for these two

chicks from the experimental nest neither shows signs of being fed by their parents and researcher liz piper is concerned i mean these because it's just a beginner who they. come back from the clay and they're going to feed them later no. time to get these chicks back home. research after sundown at the center can be. the generator provides electricity only seven hours a day. a good head lamp is your best friend along with your mosquito net to keep unwanted guests out of bed. and during meal time you have to keep an eye out for the occasional thief. this one targeted our techno crew about.

thirty years ago. this mccaw is in no sense. near the center with his mate. they're both scarlett macaws a species that can live to the ripe old age of fifty in the wild scarlet macaws are doing well here but endangered in other regions in mexico less than two hundred fifty survived in the wild as of twenty thirteen the result of illegal pet trade and habitat loss. you know sencion has little here of humans that's because a little over twenty years ago in one thousand nine hundred. six were chosen to be raised by hand at the center then released into the wild the macaws participating in the study known as the chicos. the ones that these researchers when going to die they remove them from the nest and raise them here what was the

purpose the cars were disappearing because the illegal pet trade with tuning cars were at a really high demand in north america and in europe so they wanted to see if reintroduction of the cars was a viable option to save some of these population the study was a success more than half of the scotoma cars released survived at least seven years in the wild some of these new cars still. stick around the area and those in the cars and the most aggressive with us because they have no fear at humans. and this morning the team is doing a check up on you know since you and your choice two chicks but unlike the wild macaws these parents don't leave when any climbs to the nest. getting chicks out when mom and dad are home and home is more than ninety feet up he is challenging. them to get. it if they have.

any uses these paddles to gently push the adults out of the way. then she places the chicks in the bucket and sends them down to researcher liz pipe below. could who can they really. she goes can breed out of season because they haven't ready supply of food year round they steal it or charm it out of humans at the center of the. race and bred into it is. if the extra food source also means she goes or more likely to raise more than one chick to adulthood. his proposal. it was time for these little guys to go back to their parents and any to come down.

after seeing the researchers reach heights and views normally only the macaws get to see her figure it out for me to give it a shot. who . is much harder than the researchers make a walk through. your hands a time a length of time out of breath to move or sweaty. with a few. sodas.

there are two more chips the need their checkups today from the nest called hugo. huge. only. a problem of the known dead from the learn as. you go one is a little over a month away from being ready to fledge or take its first flight more than a teacup is needed to hold this bird as its weight. by this age the wings in the feet are almost the size of an adult and. so the climber up top just yelled down saying that she saw a lightning strike and she thinks there's a storm by ten or fifteen minutes away obviously not good to be at the top of the tall tree during

a lightning storm and these are cars don't do well in the rain so it's time to hurry up right. a few more photos and it's time to bring out hugo to nest with two healthy chicks is rare i was lucky enough to see several including these two guys look so different three days. that the system is in. use or side veterinarian elizabeth pore through good is also going to take a crop sample from this bird to get an idea of its diet the crop is this boards where they store food before digesting she's present lubricant on the tubes they can pass through the throat of them comfortably. hopes that because they're. basically in the first fifteen thirty days of its life this will be quite read from all the clay that it eats but once it's this age their

diet varies a lot more so this. good stuff research on a macaws diet helps scientists see how the rain forest is critical to their survival a quick swab to make sure the macaws mouth is clean and a good check up for this mccall is done that is amazing look at. what cars are known as umbrella species making the right conservation decisions to protect them means protecting the countless other species and this special habitat they call home. and right now this habitat here in the tumble part the national reserve is thriving. researchers reported that all of the chicks we saw have now fledged even the two in the experimental cements nest in each success here offers hope for struggling macaw populations throughout the

tropics. overlooking the absolute do nothing secret he wonders to now. and. when it comes to studying creatures living inside the amazon rain forest. is about as good as it gets. this gorgeous creature is a juvenile red tailed and it looks so fresh because it just. brimming with forest in life there are likely thousands of species yet to be discovered and that's where i come in take note first visited here in two thousand and thirteen to look at this spider i helped discover it's

a family's fighter disguised as a bigfoot show. that was the first animal recorded to actually build a fake animal from scratch we also went to solve what was making this mysterious structure we call so can't judge. these discoveries were talked about around the world like your online at reddit even on m.s.n. b c which compared my discovery to the hairstyle of a new york city celebrity or perhaps the inspiration for donald trump's hair back in tumble ponta it was time to check in on the spiders and more. first up the decoys. after searching the forest the night we came upon one just meters away from the research center and were able to document it for the first time ever in the act of actually building the fake spider and catching prey consider this a success in my book. but not all of field work is

guaranteed success some. times the forest has its own plan. a moonlit boat ride to a nearby island to take a crack at solving another amazon mystery last year i led an expedition to this island to solve the mystery of so can. and despite a few hours search in the area in which i had previously done many turned completely empty frustrating but all part of the process. but not all was lost on this island visit i encountered one of the few species out there that even scares me and had to document it for a colleague's research project is to meet the wandering spider the deadliest spider in south america one of the ways you can tell is a wandering spiders by the color underneath the its front legs so i'm going to tap it a little bit see if it gets depends if it should lift them up to take

a shot i get at it. the next day tracking down a recent discovery that really has me excited and never before seen butterfly interactions i had been able to solve despite several attempts. coming back to peru i had no idea if i would ever see this butterfly again but i just spent three hours observing it and already learned so many amazing new things the scientist in me couldn't be happier. here's how it works it all starts on young bamboo plants first the butterfly lays the eggs then the skin involved the caterpillar stages the butterfly actually feeds the clients out of a specialized glands and in return be protected even from us but what's new here and what happens nowhere else in the world occurs once that caterpillar

develops into the butterfly stage the. butterflies actually trick the air and steal their liquid food coming out of the bamboo and normally eat butterflies not share a meal with them. these butterflies likely tricked them by smelling like it but even more unique they look like them to. the wings of the butterfly have a pattern of an ant hidden within only revealed when we saw them in the wild. to top it off we caught a butterfly actually taking food right out of the mouth of an ant something also never documented before. with this behavior recorded a new i wasn't coming home empty handed science like this helps us understand the wild world around us and the importance of protecting individual species which may

influence another after one last jungle stroll into the night i had all but forgotten about not finding silk henge the night before when miles from where it should be this happened. well this is completely unexpected end of my trip through the proving amazon heading back to base to pack my bags and i turn to my rights and look what i finally found. this is the rain forest wild unexpected always a challenge to understand and though my time here is over the mccall researchers and others will keep on hiking climbing and documenting their way through tumble part of. it because as a group some species are extremely into injured others not so much the ones that you guys were looking at when they fall so they focus on a somewhere in the middle basically

a lot of their population is fairly well protected and that's why this is such an amazing study site because you see them as they should be however if you step outside of that in places like central america the same species is in a lot of trouble because they're regionally endangered things like the illegal pet trade is given to them have a tad lost is given to them so by understanding what is going on there we can see what should be going on in other places that for me it was so exciting because you know i'm a chemist and you know biologists i work in a lab indoor is a very sterile environment so this is a really great reminder for me that science really happens anywhere and i mean you guys have the entire rain forest as your laboratory it's pretty cool must tell you sometimes i'm out there and i envy the life in the lab because you guys can do repeated experiments they're controlled out there in the rain forest it's pretty hard to control snow out in the old environs raw and from climbing up to the canopy to look inside a macaw nest watching butterflies an answer in a way that has never been documented before we hear a techno have the privilege of access to these types of stories from scientists all

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