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Watch the team check the vitals of a ground hornbill chick, one of Africa's most vulnerable bird species.

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This clip comes from Season 3, Episode 5: "Ground Hornbill: Redemption Song"

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00:00So what Carrie's doing there now is that she makes that call, almost like a humming call,
00:07and that's just the feeding call, like the bird that the adults will make, and it actually
00:12often will just calm the chicks down and go, wow.
00:23This chick that Kyle and Carrie are examining is the only chick that this breeding pair
00:28has raised this season. It's crucial that the data is gathered quickly and efficiently
00:33to avoid any unnecessary stress for the chick.
00:36Ground hornbills lay two eggs usually in a while, and of those two eggs,
00:42they're laid about five days apart from each other and they hatch about five days apart.
00:48And then the first chick will hatch, and very often outcompete the second chick for food, so it dies.
00:54One of the ways to make sure that that nest is producing two chicks a year
00:59is to pull the chick at a very young age and to rear that chick in a man-made environment.
01:08So essentially what we're doing is just doubling the breeding success of the wild population.

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