Which EDGE species will you vote for : The kakapo or the Californian condor? (Poll)

which species will you vote for ?

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I’m going to rep my home state of California with the California Condor. The Kakapo is a wonderful looking bird and a species equally deserving of the same level of conservation programs as the California Condor currently has. It’s one of the few success stories from my home and perhaps all of the US that shows how the government and zoos such as the Los Angeles Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park can come together to help propagate a species that still requires needed help yet not in the most dire situation currently. Some people may find the condor to just be another scavenger or not as elegant as other birds, but I find them to be rather regal and a representation of life in California about 10,000 years ago still alive today.
 
Julio C Castro said:
I’m going to rep my home state of California with the California Condor. The Kakapo is a wonderful looking bird and a species equally deserving of the same level of conservation programs as the California Condor currently has. It’s one of the few success stories from my home and perhaps all of the US that shows how the government and zoos such as the Los Angeles Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park can come together to help propagate a species that still requires needed help yet not in the most dire situation currently. Some people may find the condor to just be another scavenger or not as elegant as other birds, but I find them to be rather regal and a representation of life in California about 10,000 years ago still alive today.
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Glad to see you vote in this poll @Julio C Castro and thank you for your comment !

Its great to see someone vote for the condor as it isn't getting too many votes in comparison with the kakapo.

I agree that it is a conservation success story (although its a story that is far from over) and an incredible bird, a "living fossil" no less.

I don't think the condor is the "prettiest" of birds but what I really love about them is that they look so prehistoric and I agree that they are a living connection within the modernity of California to that ancient pre-human past.

It is very easy to imagine them within a Pleistocene landscape gliding on thermals over herds of Columbian mammoth or alighting on a carcass of a mastodon to feed, they just have such a primeval look to them.
 
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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Glad to see you vote in this poll @Julio C Castro and thank you for your comment !

Its great to see someone vote for the condor as it isn't getting too many votes in comparison with the kakapo.

I agree that it is a conservation success story (although its a story that is far from over) and an incredible bird, a "living fossil" no less.

I don't think the condor is the "prettiest" of birds but what I really love about them is that they look so prehistoric and I agree that they are a living connection within the modernity of California to that ancient pre-human past.

It is very easy to imagine them within a Pleistocene landscape gliding on thermals over herds of Columbian mammoth or alighting on a carcass of a mastodon to feed, they just have such a primeval look to them.
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Exactly, they are primitive and reminds me of the past California with the condors still being a surviving species of that era. This is a bit off topic and I know I amongst the minority here when I say this but it’s exactly why I love Elephant Odyssey at San Diego. They are literal living fossils of a different time that have survived multiple environmental changes until humans began to ramp up their industrialization and not thinking about the actions to the consequences until it was too late or a close call for many species.
 
Julio C Castro said:
Exactly, they are primitive and reminds me of the past California with the condors still being a surviving species of that era. This is a bit off topic and I know I amongst the minority here when I say this but it’s exactly why I love Elephant Odyssey at San Diego. They are literal living fossils of a different time that have survived multiple environmental changes until humans began to ramp up their industrialization and not thinking about the actions to the consequences until it was too late or a close call for many species.
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Yes, true, there are so many species out there which are living fossils and so many of them are incredible whether they are the Californian condor, tuatuara, hellbender, solenodon or cycads.

These are all awe inspiring survivors and it is remarkable that they are still with us.

Don't worry, not off topic at all, I know what you mean and I think elephants are amazing survivors too.

I remember thinking exactly that when I saw prehistoric cave paintings of woolly mammoths in archeological sites in Spain and France like El Pindal or Rouffignac caves.
 
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