Kakapos
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 15 Jul 04:14
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logicbomb@lemmy.world on 15 Jul 05:13 next collapse

It looks like it is humping that guy’s head, but they would never hump somebody’s head, would they?

PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works on 15 Jul 06:55 collapse

Stephen Fry never fully recovered

AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Jul 06:06 next collapse

I do love that Aotearoa has incredible avian diversity.

On one hand, we have Kea parrots who are smarter than most of the human tourists they like pranking and stealing from.

And on the other side of the spectrum we have the kakapo: literally the dumbest bird in existence.

Such amazing biodiversity lol

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 15 Jul 06:56 next collapse

the flightless ones on islands seems to dumbed down compared with thier flying relatives, i think its because they have no natural predators, they also have lower metabolic rates because they dont need to have energetic flight muscles for flight.

50MYT@lemmy.world on 15 Jul 08:00 collapse

Kea is fucking awesome.

The video of them peeling rubber off the police car is funny, also the video of them moving the orange road cone into the middle of the road, so the cars stop, so they have more cars to fuck with is epic.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works on 15 Jul 06:33 next collapse

If you can easily pass for part of a plant, it’s pretty darn effective. Especially if you live where most plants stay green all year. Except it doesn’t work on invasive ferrets, stoats, and rats who eat the eggs.

NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works on 15 Jul 06:51 next collapse

The OG Party Parrot

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 15 Jul 07:44 collapse

I first heard about them in Last Chance to See where they are described not only as a bird who has forgotten how to fly, but they have forgotten that they have forgotten how to fly.

So if you startle one of the poor dears, they’re liable to climb a tree and fling themselves out of it.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Jul 07:51 next collapse

Last chance to see is such a great book

raltoid@lemmy.world on 15 Jul 08:47 collapse

The show is pretty good too.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Jul 08:55 collapse

“you’re being shagged by a rare parrot”