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One of the most magical aspects of my life was the privilege of to grow up doing conservation and exploration in South Africa. I had a bird hospital for about 15 years. My first patient was at the age of about 6 or 7. Rehabilitated many 100s of birds into the wild. There were some that refused to leave and I would awaken in the morning with them in my bed, and this one, Tufty, refused to join a flock and stuck around living inside and outside my home as a young man.
Mousebirds (family Coliidae, order Coliiformes) are a phylogenetically isolated, Africa-endemic group often called living fossils, with only six extant species. These small, gregarious birds feature soft, fluffy plumage, crests, and very long tails, with pamprodactylous feet enabling mouse-like scrambling and upside-down hanging while foraging on fruit, buds, and leaves. Most curiously, they enter facultative torpor to drop body temperature and metabolism during cool or food-scarce conditions, often huddling communally for warmth and basking belly-up in the sun. This is her basking in my head.
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