00:00This creature has a superpower.
00:02Humans literally rewired its entire existence through selective breeding.
00:07The island canary was a plain brown bird living wild across Madeira,
00:13the Azores, and the Canary Islands.
00:15Then we got our hands on it.
00:18Breeders transformed it into something completely unrecognizable,
00:21vibrant yellows, oranges, reds, even white.
00:25They gave it wild haircuts, changed how it stands, its posture, everything.
00:30And it gets even crazier.
00:32These birds were literally trained to impersonate other bird species,
00:36to mimic babbling water sounds, to perform like tiny feathered entertainers.
00:41We didn't just domesticate this animal.
00:43We turned it into a living art project.
00:46The wild ancestor still exists on those islands,
00:49looking nothing like its pampered descendants.
00:52Nature is unreal.
00:54Follow for more.
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