Caring for kākāpō affected with the disease cloacitis

[@mortalclown3812]

Your zoo is so important to conservation in general - sending extra thanks for your amazing work with these beautiful animals. Thank you all for making a difference on Earth. 🌏💞🙏

[@christinehuff5009]

I think y'all are doing a fabulous job, God bless you and the whole team for all the hard work y'all do!

[@R-compoundR-code]

Thank you for caring for the kakapo. Sweet little things. So cute.

[@vjc2270]

Poor wee things. It's wonderful that you can treat them. Any idea where/how the disease originated and spread to the Kakapo?

[@nzrockboi]

the level of science and care is amazing

[@FroggyTWrite]

great work you folks are doing, thank you so much! btw, how do you identify if they become sick between their yearly checkups? do the transmitters show them moving much less or something like that?

[@aucklandzoo]

Kia ora, thank you for your question! Kākāpō Recovery have a remote monitoring system set up on the main island sites. The transmitters that each kākāpō wears records their activity level, which the rangers can monitor for changes. A data network records their activity on a daily basis and sends information to a central database. If a bird is showing low signs of activity, this can suggest they are unwell, and the rangers will find the bird to check on it. :)

[@marnyfrancesca2526]

Wonderful to see the care involved in treating our Kakapo, thank you.

[@crimsonbelliedmarco]

Such sweet precious creature...thank you for saving them. I'd love to smell them someday 😍

[@complimentary_voucher]

Maybe there's a phenotypical vulnerability in some of these birds? Weird that they're not yeasty at the same time (we keep parrots) so no generalised immune disorder probably. I would suspect a phenotype issue with a novel biome on the island since they're not endemic presumably to that place. Good luck, it must be so rewarding to keep these guys alive. Thank you.