exciting story that i heard that i wanted to share with people was in new zealand, where i met don martin i decided he would say the black robin from extension of the blackout is a cute little bird about this big living on the mainland. they never had any predators. completely tame. and because of introduced rats and cats. the population of robbins, like so many other of the indigenous birds, began to decrease. and finally dawn and a handful of biologist got permission to remove the remaining ones, there were only 27 by this time, to an offshore island with no cats and rats. when they went back in the spring, you can get there in the winter. it is a very, very wild and desolate and crashing seas and rocks, they found only seven birds left. so everybody said give up. seven birds? and of the seven, only two were females. these two females, only one was fertile. she left her long-term mate, which normally they don't do. and she picked a young male to be her mate. [laughter] deck well, she did. and good for her. [laughter] >> because that her eggs were fertile. and dawn, he was the first to d