Banban alternatively known for jax is a main protagonist character who appeared in Banban the Bird: heading to the wild
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Banban is introduced in the film where she is originally lived in a Bird farm, but was unable to incubate the eggs that are her own. Longing to have her own young, she planned to escape the farm, but passes out when she starves herself. The farmer, mistaking banban's unconscious form as dead, takes banban out of the farm and dumps her into a pit outside in the forest along with the other deceased birds. Upon awakening, she is attacked by a vicious weasel named One Eye, but manages to escape thanks to a wild mallard Seagull she nicknamed Matt , whom she immediately falls in love with
After a failed attempt to join the farm animals outside the Bird farm, a Bird returns to the wild and was able to find a place to live with the help of Mr. Slug, whom she Shortly after arriving into the wild, she meets up with Wanderer again, only to discover that he already has a mate. That night, One Eye kills matt's mate and Matt tries in vain to pursue the carnivore. Banban heard the commotion and comes upon a nest that had a single egg, to which she begins to take care of. Matt telling banban as the caregiver of the egg and later instructs the hen to take his unborn son child to the everglades and will understand in time why. Banban soon witnessed the death of Matt by the claws of One Eye, leaving banban alone and depressed.
At the time of matt's death, the egg hatches into a baby Segull and Bird hybrid and banban names him lucy. The birds heads to a nearby glade where there are many water birds and took most of her time caring for Lucy , who grew up and learned how to swim from Mr. Slug. However living close to the water gradually made banban grow ill little by little, but the hen didn't mind that. Eventually, banban discovered that the local water birds of the everglades don't approve of her and becomes depressed. Around the same time, Lucy found out that he and banban are different, and the young seagulls leaves his foster mother, feeling that he doesn't need her anymore.
Banban seeks solace from Mr. Slug, who then told the hen the backstory of Matt. Banban's friend, Chip, alerted banban about Lucy being captured by the farmer and rushes to his rescue, saving Lucy from having his wings clipped. Shortly after escaping, banban and lucy reconcile, but soon came under attack by One Eye, who finds both birds as potential prey to eat. The hungry weasel disorients Leafie and chases down Greenie to eat him first. Despite Leafie's best efforts, she was unable to stop One Eye from reaching Greenie and could only watch as both Greenie and One Eye fall over a cliff. Believing Greenie to be dead, Leafie mourns, but Greenie escaped certain death by successfully learning how to fly while One Eye managed to save herself by grabbing hold of a ledge on the cliff.
An aged Leafie watches an adult Greenie perform his flying manuevers in the autumn season. When a flock of ducks come to the everglades, Leafie realized what Wanderer meant. She allows Greenie to meet with the flock of ducks and returns to her nest. When Greenie returns, Leafie finds out that Greenie is discouraged and reassures him to enter the race the wild ducks were having to become the new guard duck. She manages to tear a portion of the human string that was left wrapped around Greenie's leg from his past encounter with the farmer and gives her support.
During the race, Leafie watched from the sidelines as Greenie tackle against the competitve ducks and was overjoyed with tears when the young duck won the race. After the competition, Leafie wonders alone and finds a nest of baby weasels, to which she begins to take care of. She suddenly witnesses Greenie being pinned down by a hungry One Eye, and during the confrontation, discovered that the baby weasels she has been taking care of was One Eye's. This makes Leafie realize that the weasel who killed Wanderer and his mate, is now killing to provide food for her newborn litter. After agreeing to not harm the weasel pups in exchange for letting Greenie go, Leafie and Greenie were allowed to escape. Before they left, Leafie saw how One Eye, who is malnourished due to the rough winter season, is unable to produce milk to feed her pups.
As the flock of ducks prepare to leave the everglades, Leafie said her heartfelt goodbyes to Greenie and promises him that she would be in the everglades when he returns. She then allows Greenie to go with the flock and see the world, calling out to her foster son that she is proud of him. Soon afterwards, One Eye approaches the hen. Feeling that she has done everything for Greenie, that she will not survive the winter and how One Eye is unable to produce milk for her pups, Leafie allows One Eye to kill and eat her so the baby weasels won't starve, an action that greatly moved One Eye to the point of tears.
After her death, Leafie becomes a flying spirit in the air that many get to see, including Chirpie, Mr.Otter and Greenie, as she flies with him.