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Probably a Takahē in New Zealand but in captivity.

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A dik-dik. It’s a species of deer that is slightly larger than a house cat or maybe a medium size dog. It was super adorable but a bit uncanny feeling lol.

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I traveled to one of the most remote places on the planet, drove hours on dirt roads, hiked another hour through deafening wind, and then crawled on my stomach to the edge of a a 1300’ cliff, and hung off of it it just to take a picture of a puffin with my cell phone.

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I petted and fed hay to the last male northern white rhino in Kenya some years ago.

He’s dead now and the remaining two females will likely die without giving birth and the species will go extinct :-(

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I visited a lab where some of the last remaining dusky gopher frogs are cared for.

(reminder that frogs may be in what is considered the sixth mass extinction ever on earth)

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Yeah check out my comment on the Santa Cruz salamander.

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Really feels like I picked a bad time to be interested in amphibians sometimes

Definitely jealous of getting to work with condors, sounds awesome.

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They are so fuckin huge dude.

They have one of the largest wingspans of any bird. Like their wingspan is ~9.5 feet.

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