I also recently learned this fact about the audio that really got to me. After the researchers recorded this, they played it back, then he excitedly flew over, thinking he just heard another ʻōʻō bird.

  • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    > survives for over 15-20 million years

    > Europeans arrive

    > merely 200 years later the entire specie's gone