PATAGONIA NATIONAL PARK'S SUPERDADS!

Meet Patagonia National Park's superdads!
Alas and Douglas are two Darwin’s rhea males who have been key in reversing the decline of their species in Patagonia National Park, Chile. They play a crucial role at the Darwin’s Rheas Reproduction Center that we built with our offspring organization, ‪@rewildingchile‬ in Patagonia National Park, Aysén region.
The male rhea is the one who hatches and raises the chicks! These “super dads” are polygenic - meaning the male mates with several females, who lay their eggs all in the same nest.
After incubating and raising four clutches of chicks at the Reproduction Center in Aysén, Alas and Douglas have been transferred to Reserva Quimán in the Los Lagos region, so that they can enrich the genetics of the rheas that are bred there for future release in Patagonia. They have begun their first breeding cycle at Quimán and already have a new brood of chicks!
In the upcoming months, these chicks hatched and raised by these superdads will freely roam the Patagonian steppe, strengthening the ecosystem and the population of their species!
Video by: Rewilding Chile
Music by: Diego Redz