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the Maleo bird
jason yanes·

Uploaded on Aug 11, 2010

being isolated on a volcanic island the Maleo bird was forced to adapt to the new changes in its habitat and evan took advantage of its new (and only) home from the terrain and other unique characteristic's that it had brought with it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLwHXK30JaQ

Bizarre maleo bird given private Indonesian beach

The large eggs laid by the early-flying maleo will be protected from humans on the remote Sulawesi island

theguardian.com, Friday 15 May 2009 11.40 BST
 
Life's a beach ... the chicken-sized maleo now lives exclusively on Sulawesi island. Photograph: Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society/AP

A species of bird able to fly immediately after hatching from eggs buried beneath the tropical sand has just been given its own private beach in eastern Indonesia, a conservation group said today.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/may/15/endangered-maleo-bird-private-beach

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