Aired (October 6, 2024): Pumunta si Doc Nielsen Donato sa Laguna para makita at mas kilalanin ang ibong black-crowned night heron o wakwak kung tawagin ng mga taga-Laguna. Bakit kaya pinaniniwalan ng mga residente na aktibo sa gabi ang ibon na ‘to lalo na ‘pag may mga buntis? Alamin ‘yan sa video na ito.
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Born to be Wild’ is GMA Network’s groundbreaking environmental and wildlife show hosted by resident veterinarians Doc Nielsen Donato and Doc Ferds Recio. #BornToBeWild #GMAPublicAffairs #GMANetwork
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00:00In Pansol Laguna, a legend is believed to be about a wild boar.
00:13A wild boar.
00:18Every step of its footsteps,
00:24can be heard outside the houses.
00:30The target of the wild boar,
00:33are the monkeys.
00:38Wild boars have a scary sound.
00:44This is the reason why it is called a wild boar.
00:49Is this story true?
00:56Tess is 6 months pregnant.
01:00She quickly closes the house every night.
01:04Yes, I believe in the wild boar.
01:06Because there is a wild boar crawling on our roof at night.
01:08The wild boar is strong.
01:14This is also what Leia heard when she was pregnant.
01:19When I gave birth to my third child,
01:21there was always a ticking sound on the roof of our house.
01:32The eyes are red and twisted.
01:36It has a sharp beak.
01:39It has a long tail.
01:42And it often shows up at night.
01:49But what is suspected to be a wild boar,
01:56is a black crowned night heron.
02:00It is called wak-wak in some places in the Philippines.
02:05The wak-wak is far from the beliefs.
02:16This mother,
02:18just came back from looking for food.
02:22She brought the fish to her pond,
02:25which she will feed to her wild boars.
02:28The bigger wild boar approached the mother first.
02:36Because the wild boar is already big,
02:42the first wild boar ate all the food that the mother brought.
02:46So the second wild boar could not eat any more.
02:50The mother left immediately to catch other wild boars.
02:56She could not bear the hunger of the wild boars.
02:59The black crowned night herons are crepuscular.
03:04It means that they are active whenever the sun rises and the sun sets.
03:12But the situation is different when they already have a child.
03:17When they already have a chick,
03:19they need to be constantly fed.
03:22For them to grow in every few hours.
03:26For them to grow in every few hours or even every few 30 minutes,
03:30they need to be fed.
03:32Even when it is time for a nap,
03:34the parents do not seem to care.
03:41They go back and forth to look for food.
03:56The tiring scene of the wild boar family can be seen.
04:02Here we can see that they have a reddish tree.
04:06That looks like their home.
04:09We can see on our eye level that they are crossing to Laguna de Bay.
04:16After they hunt for food in Laguna de Bay,
04:20they are going back.
04:22So the directions we can see are different.
04:25They chose this tree behind the resort as their home.
04:35Later, later.
04:37Look, they are landing.
04:39Wow, their landing is so graceful.
04:44We are happy to see the night herons' family.
04:49This resort in Pansol, Calamba is a unique visit.
04:53They did not come here for vacation and swimming.
04:59They came here to look for a safe place to live.
05:05They are the black crowned night heron or wakwak.
05:09Although it is a resort, you can see that people and animals coexist because of these trees.
05:16One good example is that it is a sanctuary of black crowned night herons.
05:24At the back of the rooms, you can see the trees that are chosen to live as wakwak.
05:31I see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
05:35I can't count anymore.
05:36This is just here in this tree, and there are around 4 to 5 trees to make nests for these wakwak.
05:50To cool their feelings, they move their bodies to regulate their temperature.
06:01Until, a bird suddenly approached them.
06:06While the bird is here, it returned to the inside of the tree where its nests are waiting for it.
06:15Carried by parental instinct, it immediately captured the bird that approached its nest.
06:26We found one there.
06:28Where did you get it?
06:30I think they have a nest there in the mango tree.
06:33And then it fell, and I think he's hurt.
06:36Yes, his eyes are infected.
06:41Maybe that's why ma'am was able to get it easily because of an injury.
06:45By the way, I'm a vet, and I can take care of it.
06:51This is a juvenile black crowned night heron.
06:56This is their nesting area.
07:00Maybe it went there because its eyes were injured.
07:06But at this age, they're starting to fly already.
07:10It fell into the nest.
07:12Thank you for your concern.
07:13As you can see, I would never have thought that I could handle a juvenile.
07:19But here, someone came and surrendered a juvenile black crowned night heron.
07:26It looks strong, but its eyes are infected.
07:30So, ma'am, we're going to treat it.
07:32If you look closely, the appearance of the young and old quokka is different.
07:38The eyes of the quokka are brown with sparkles and yellow.
07:43While the eyes of the adult quokka are white and gray with a black crown and red.
07:50As they grow up, they go through the so-called molting stage
07:56where their body and eyes change color.
08:01The injury of this black crowned night heron looks minor.
08:08It's just in the eye.
08:11We're just going to apply some medications.
08:16And then I'll just give it some antibiotics to ensure to prevent its infection.
08:27And then we'll get it out of there.
08:31Okay, time to release this juvenile night heron.
08:35Hopefully, it will take off.
08:38One, two, three, go.
08:44Alright.
08:46Later.
08:56The quokka that is often mistaken for a black crowned night heron
09:00just wants to protect its family.
09:02It's important to understand these things.
09:08One of the sounds that you would hear from the quokka is the quok.
09:14It has a rasping sound.
09:17Then it has the quok.
09:20I think the name quok quok applies because it's onomatopoeic.
09:24The sound of the quokka is the sound of the quokka.
09:27The sound of the quokka is the sound of the quokka.
09:32They are predators of small animals.
09:35They also eat biowax, fish and other large birds.
09:41And because they eat fish,
09:44they can help to control the invasive species of fish
09:49that are destroyed in fisheries like Laguna.
09:57Thank you for watching Born to be Wild.
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