Why is a Wildlife Rehabilitator Interviewing Animals with a Tiny Microphone?

A wildlife rehabilitator has been gaining popularity on YouTube for her video content where she interviews animals using a tiny microphone. While that certainly is a cute sight to see and puts a smile on everyone’s faces, it begs the question, “Why?”.

Well, Maya Higa’s main purpose is to help out animals and spread awareness to the public on certain threats many species face. Issues on illegal pet trading, habitat loss, climate change, exploitation, and more are some of the dark but real issues that Maya wants to be part of the solution of, but these may be too heavy for some.

So, what does Maya do? She creates lighthearted videos where she interviews different animals from the ZooToYou Conservation Ambassadors facility in California in hopes of spreading awareness and getting people to connect more with these bundles of joys.

In a series titled “Tiny Mic Interviews”, Maya Higa puts the spotlight on little animals where she asks them questions using a tiny microphone. Said microphone is so small that she has to hold it with just her thumb and index finger!

Now while animals have a different language from us, that doesn’t stop Maya from asking them fun questions and at times even throwing jokes or bantering around with them. We reckon that some animals may understand Maya and their way of answering back is by snorting or trying to eat the tiny microphone. Either way, it earns a few laughs and likes from us!

All jokes aside, we have to applaud Maya Higa’s creativity and way of disseminating important information on such issues. Aside from these video series, she also manages to add other informative videos on her YouTube channel — and glimpses of her personal life.

With her being a wildlife rehabilitator, falconer, and streamer, Higa covers all three topics and more that can both inform and entertain us on serious topics in a light manner.

In one of her videos, she states, “The natural world that these animals come from is being absolutely decimated,” Higa states in another video. “The UN estimates that over one million plant and animal species face extinction today. Pollution, habitat loss, climate change, the wildlife trade, exploitation, general human intervention… is causing us to lose species at rates unprecedented in human history. We’re experiencing a mass extinction.”.

Given the gravity of the issues Maya is trying to shed light on, perhaps interviewing animals with a tiny microphone is one creative manner on how to reach young audiences and have them care about all of this. But most importantly, it’s also a great way to give animals a voice and some screen time!