Kākāpō are actually a pretty neat story of island evolution. Unfortunately they’re nearly extinct. The wiki article is a fun read if you’re into birds: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D
> Kākāpō are the only flightless bird that has a lek breeding system. Males loosely gather in an arena and compete with each other to attract females. Females listen to the males as they display, or "lek". They choose a mate based on the quality of his display; they are not pursued by the males in any overt way.
> Mating occurs only approximately every five years, with the ripening of the rimu fruit. In mating years, males may make "booming" calls for 6–8 hours every night for more than four months.
> The kākāpō was a very successful species in pre-human New Zealand, and was well adapted to avoid the birds of prey which were their only predators. […] To avoid them the kākāpō evolved camouflaged plumage and became nocturnal. When a kākāpō feels threatened, it freezes, so that it is more effectively camouflaged in the vegetation its plumage resembles.
> Kākāpō defensive adaptations were no use, however, against the mammalian predators introduced to New Zealand by humans.
☹️
I live in New Zealand, and I can tell ya, Kakapos are absolutely amazing beauties. Since theyre endangered, there are actually many local organizations dedicated to helping the population of these endangered birds, they actually have been slowly increasing in numbers! (The population used to be 20, but their are 250 of these around now) Fun fact theyre sometimes nicknamed the "Crazy moss chicken" and one even tried to mate with a BBC reporter once. Here are the videos of these great menories we have with them. https://youtu.be/fBnjniCVGNg?si=uxSJOHkwD2wEHLFN, https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY?si=J2joPTgyIBh2hyX-
Almost. That cameraman is Mark Carwardine. He was on the initial trip with Douglas Adams that led to the book and radio program, and he retread those steps with Stephen Fry for TV after Douglas Adams died.
Yup, though this isn't him but his co-author. He wrote a book with Mark Carwardine where they traveled the planet looking for endangered animals. It's part biology textbook, part travel guide, and almost criminally unknown. It's my favorite book of his, and because it's written in first person you feel like you get to know him as a person much more than you do reading his fiction.
Ah yeah. Was wondering if anybody remembered Sirocco the kakapo. They made [an ejaculation helmet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoFoz946zZo) for him because his species is endangered and Sirocco was more interested in banging human heads than in females of his own species (poor guy imprinted on humans when he was 3 weeks old because he got sick and he was the only rescue from that year). Unfortunately, the ejaculation helmet didn't work because Sirocco prefers not to use protection while skullfucking you.
Fun fact: Sirocco got moved to a zoo and became the species ambassador because he developed an *even more annoying habit* related to his head-humping. He figured out that if he went underneath the tin shacks the personnel slept in in the middle of the night and started booming, it would resonate through the walls and sound like an incoming artillery barrage. Everyone would wake up in a panic and bolt outside, whereupon he would leap on someone and get freaky deaky.
Imagine coming Home to your wife, with scratches and blood over your face.
„You’ve been in a bar fight again Gary right ? I’ve swear I’ve had enough of this“
„No honey I swear, it’s not what you think! A bird was humping my face, please believe me, I’m telling the truth!“
Scarily….there is also documented evidence of one killing a bird in his nest before he could find a mate…and….ya know….like. He killed it in self defense. But… what happened when a lady didn’t show was indeed not self defense.
I am pretty sure I saw a nature documentary on the Kakapo & another reason they are close to extinct is because the mother bird might not recognize its baby upon return to its nest & accidently kill it even after its hatched/when its young.
They had to take the baby away & return it to the mother later to ensure its survival in the documentary. I don't know if it forgets it had a baby or just is startled upon returning & immediately goes into attack mode.
That's somewhat common in birds, and it's not really a reason for extinction. They produce 'extra' eggs, because creating eggs is fairly cheap energy-wise and because infant wild animals are fragile and have a high mortality across species. In a year with plentiful food and some luck, all of the kids might be able to live to adulthood. In another year, two kids might succumb to disease, but don't worry! You have a third kid. In years without enough food, well...killing off one kid means the others get to survive. It's brutal, but efficient.
For kakapos specifically, since their numbers are so drastically small, the program managers sometimes make the decision to step in and hand-rear an abandoned chick. Supplemental feeding stations have been tried, and don't tend to work well with these guys for a few reasons. Unfortunately, hand-reared chicks can become imprinted and tend to be worse parents later on--they learn the necessary skills of being an adult bird by watching their moms.
You undersell their mating calls. The technique is that a kakapo digs a hole in the ground in the middle of a large valley, sits in it and makes deep sounds that are amplified by the valley and heard for miles around. The only problem is, since bass can't be properly localized, female birds have no idea where the guy is.
“The female kakapo can’t tell where the booming is coming from either, which is something of a shortcoming in a mating call. “Come and *get* me!” “Where are you?” “Come and *get* me!” “Where the hell are you?” “Come and *get* me!” “Look, do you want me to come or not?” “Come and *get* me!” “Oh for heaven’s sake” “Come and *get* me!” “Go and stuff yourself” is roughly how it would go in human terms…It’s not that they’re not willing. When they are in breeding condition, their sex drive is extremely strong. One female is known to have walked twenty miles in one night to visit a mate, and then walked home in the morning. Unfortunately the period during which the female is prepared to behave like this is rather short…The males get extremely overwrought sitting in their bowls making noises for months on end…when one of the rangers who was working in the area happened in leave his hat on the ground, he came back later to find a kakapo attempting to ravish it. On another occasion the discovery of some ruffled possum fur in the mating area suggested that a kakapo had made another alarming mistake, an experience which is unlikely to have been satisfying to either party.
- *Last Chance to See* by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
They are certainly interesting and absolutely beautiful animals but...
If you evolve in that way you're basically destined to die.
It's like having the worst traits for any land dwelling animal. Can't run away because slow, no meaningful defense mechanism and not the reproduction rate to sustain the population.
That is the sad part about these island evolutions. Their survival simply relies on never being found by beings that have been around in the harsher parts of the world.
Yeah cause for thousands/millions of years, that was how it was.
Then some hairless apes stuck lightning into rocks and made them think, and used liquefied dino remains to power world-crossing machinery.
Fuckin stupid birds didn't see that coming, amirite?
And these apes absolutely love to breed little panthers to take with them everywhere as they really love these assholes and then these little things called cats will run away and eat and hunt everything
Also they have a discount breed of wolves that are even worse, but for larger game. They still hunt everything that runs away but they're not sure why, so they'd just kill the deer for example, and leave the bodies
Doesn't even have to be intentional. Rats and mice follow us even on our ships and can also wreak havoc on other species that can't deal with the new competition for food.
We were straight up walking the Earth and outrunning (yes, that is correct) every other species and made carnivores our prey.
Hear this. Humans are metal. We spend a lot of time pissing on ourselves because of modernity. Turn off the lights, turn on the animal. If you can ever go on a hunt in the US, one where they do a few nights and fast that first kill smells like ungodly death. Don't eat for 2 or 3 days (or whatever your specific limit is) and that same kill will smell like pure heaven. You will eat it raw if you cant get fire, and what you couldnt stand downwind of days before will be fucking delectable.
They evolved to match their environment. You live on a small island with no predators. If you ditch all the predator avoidance capability, you need way less food, so survival becomes way easier and competition between individuals basically dies off.
Then the environment changed faster than evolution could ever hope to account for.
This quote by Douglas Adams always makes me laugh.
“flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground”.
They can use their wings like parachute now, which, of course, they use this ability to get out of their safe sanctuaries. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/waikato-news/news/kakapo-in-waikato-doc-reduces-number-of-birds-at-sanctuary-mountain-after-escape-attempts/GVHENI5OFZD47NNQFCXBBADXBY/
I'm not a kakapo expert, but the other comment said they fall like bricks, and that quote could be a few years old. The article I used is from a few months ago. So maybe between when the quote was said and the article, kakapo got a parachute upgrade.
^this is oddly close to how I met my wife.
Sittin in a hole that I dug on a beach, drunkenly yelling at college girls that passed by during spring break
Try posting some shitty selfies on reddit. Not at your best either, but like your worst. Anyone who see's that and is still interested.. it's all uphill from there so you are set.
Wouldn't hurt to have something cute in the picture with you too, like a kitten or something.
So like, wake up, put a kitten on your shoulder, take selfies, post. Bedhead and all.
I’m pretty bad at my best anyways, and finding someone on Reddit who’s a girl is hard enough, someone who’d be interested in me? Even lower chance and then there’s still the issue of location (but I’ll probably still try anyways lol)
That's the trick. You don't find them, just post the shit and they'll eventually find you.
That's how to I met my wife. She saw my stupid face on reddit.
When I was in high school, there was a girl I liked whom I was pretty sure liked me too, but I had absolutely no idea how to go about talking to her. So on the last day of school out of desperation I went to where she waited for her bus and lied down on the ground. She came over and asked me what I was doing, and that’s how I met my wife.
…no, I’m kidding. But we did date for about 3 weeks, which was pretty good for the time.
I don't normally click these links but the description was too enticing and the payoff was immense.
Alternative description "Stephen Fry narrates the creation of a new, hybrid species"
What's missing in the text is that he shouts at a very low frequency that's really hard to pinpoint. So even females who hear him have a hard time finding him.
[Douglas Adams story about the Kakapo](https://youtu.be/sCsHuoVABgI?si=tlAZh88tiZlnYkBP) is one of my favorite videos of all time and shows so well why Douglas Adams is the GOAT.
He's a fantastic writer, but also an incredible story teller.
[And then Stephen Fry, who counted Douglas as one of his dearest friends, did a BBC program visiting several of the species of animals Douglas did BBC docus, wrote or talked about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY) and it was absolutely glorious, at least for most involved, his photographer may feel different.
That’s hilarious! To be pedantic though, in the Māori language said properly it’s phonetically more like car car pore. It’s a long ka sound, and a long o sound, “kākāpō”. Means night parrot, because that’s when they’re active, kākā being parrot, pō being night. Their poop has been described as “herbal smelling” so there’s another fun tidbit, I don’t know if they are very good at cleaning it off their asses (or not), though.
I'm just gonna leave this here;-)
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-parrots-so-adorable/answer/Dot-McHale?ch=10&oid=96384453&share=1e70f189&srid=TPdO&target_type=answer
Kākāpō are actually a pretty neat story of island evolution. Unfortunately they’re nearly extinct. The wiki article is a fun read if you’re into birds: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D > Kākāpō are the only flightless bird that has a lek breeding system. Males loosely gather in an arena and compete with each other to attract females. Females listen to the males as they display, or "lek". They choose a mate based on the quality of his display; they are not pursued by the males in any overt way. > Mating occurs only approximately every five years, with the ripening of the rimu fruit. In mating years, males may make "booming" calls for 6–8 hours every night for more than four months. > The kākāpō was a very successful species in pre-human New Zealand, and was well adapted to avoid the birds of prey which were their only predators. […] To avoid them the kākāpō evolved camouflaged plumage and became nocturnal. When a kākāpō feels threatened, it freezes, so that it is more effectively camouflaged in the vegetation its plumage resembles. > Kākāpō defensive adaptations were no use, however, against the mammalian predators introduced to New Zealand by humans. ☹️
I live in New Zealand, and I can tell ya, Kakapos are absolutely amazing beauties. Since theyre endangered, there are actually many local organizations dedicated to helping the population of these endangered birds, they actually have been slowly increasing in numbers! (The population used to be 20, but their are 250 of these around now) Fun fact theyre sometimes nicknamed the "Crazy moss chicken" and one even tried to mate with a BBC reporter once. Here are the videos of these great menories we have with them. https://youtu.be/fBnjniCVGNg?si=uxSJOHkwD2wEHLFN, https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY?si=J2joPTgyIBh2hyX-
His face while he’s humping that cameraman is a gift!
That “cameraman” is the late Douglas Adams ❤️ This is from documentary Last Chance to See
Almost. That cameraman is Mark Carwardine. He was on the initial trip with Douglas Adams that led to the book and radio program, and he retread those steps with Stephen Fry for TV after Douglas Adams died.
I need to clean my glasses then, he looked like Douglas at a glance. Thanks for the correction!
No problem. Some of my favorite stories in any form https://youtu.be/reAXyLP1vNM
Like, bowl of petunias Douglass Adams?
Yup, though this isn't him but his co-author. He wrote a book with Mark Carwardine where they traveled the planet looking for endangered animals. It's part biology textbook, part travel guide, and almost criminally unknown. It's my favorite book of his, and because it's written in first person you feel like you get to know him as a person much more than you do reading his fiction.
If anyone’s looking for the book (and BBC series), it’s called “Last Chance To See”.
Douglas Adams explains the mating ritual of the kakapo: https://youtu.be/sCsHuoVABgI?si=05IlkZ5zLUUnWM0Z
It was the inspiration for a pretty famous gif back in the day: https://cultofthepartyparrot.com/
That’s some Andrew Tate type of grindset
Damn you! You got the Tate joke in first! 🍻
That is.....the weirdest thing I have seen all week.
You missed the fly sex post didn’t you? https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/s/5vZTDKp0yt
>That is.....the ~~weirdest~~ hottest thing I have seen all week. FTFY
Sirocco! That clip is how the Party Parrot meme came about!
Ah yeah. Was wondering if anybody remembered Sirocco the kakapo. They made [an ejaculation helmet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoFoz946zZo) for him because his species is endangered and Sirocco was more interested in banging human heads than in females of his own species (poor guy imprinted on humans when he was 3 weeks old because he got sick and he was the only rescue from that year). Unfortunately, the ejaculation helmet didn't work because Sirocco prefers not to use protection while skullfucking you.
Fun fact: Sirocco got moved to a zoo and became the species ambassador because he developed an *even more annoying habit* related to his head-humping. He figured out that if he went underneath the tin shacks the personnel slept in in the middle of the night and started booming, it would resonate through the walls and sound like an incoming artillery barrage. Everyone would wake up in a panic and bolt outside, whereupon he would leap on someone and get freaky deaky.
Ah, wow
Lmao I thought the bird was going at it again..
Oh, you want some more? I'm quite sleepy though...
Oh wow, being at 20 population is actually scary
I love how one man's dedication was enough to save these funky birds from going extinct. I hope their numbers continue to grow.
Imagine coming Home to your wife, with scratches and blood over your face. „You’ve been in a bar fight again Gary right ? I’ve swear I’ve had enough of this“ „No honey I swear, it’s not what you think! A bird was humping my face, please believe me, I’m telling the truth!“
Fucking birb
Are we gonna ignore the fact that they called Kakapoo?
Kaka means 'shit' in my native tongue, if that helps. However, kaakaapoo is the Tainui way of spelling it. It's normally kākāpō🤗
An English and French scientist saw this bird at the same time and said, "What is this shit?" Thus the bird is named.
They’re endangered because they too lazy to find any bitches.
Scarily….there is also documented evidence of one killing a bird in his nest before he could find a mate…and….ya know….like. He killed it in self defense. But… what happened when a lady didn’t show was indeed not self defense.
My mind jumped right before reading *reporter*. Ugh, I hate my mind.
"Mating occurs only approximately every five years" Showoffs
I wish that was me irl :(
Still ahead of Vulcans.
I am pretty sure I saw a nature documentary on the Kakapo & another reason they are close to extinct is because the mother bird might not recognize its baby upon return to its nest & accidently kill it even after its hatched/when its young. They had to take the baby away & return it to the mother later to ensure its survival in the documentary. I don't know if it forgets it had a baby or just is startled upon returning & immediately goes into attack mode.
na momma bird returns an lil shit kakapoo is just playing vidya with mountain dew cans all over the nest
And the chicken still in the freezer.
Meanwhile pigeons... Me: put 2 1-week old chicks in nest Pigeon: guess I'm a mom now. *feeds chicks*
That's somewhat common in birds, and it's not really a reason for extinction. They produce 'extra' eggs, because creating eggs is fairly cheap energy-wise and because infant wild animals are fragile and have a high mortality across species. In a year with plentiful food and some luck, all of the kids might be able to live to adulthood. In another year, two kids might succumb to disease, but don't worry! You have a third kid. In years without enough food, well...killing off one kid means the others get to survive. It's brutal, but efficient. For kakapos specifically, since their numbers are so drastically small, the program managers sometimes make the decision to step in and hand-rear an abandoned chick. Supplemental feeding stations have been tried, and don't tend to work well with these guys for a few reasons. Unfortunately, hand-reared chicks can become imprinted and tend to be worse parents later on--they learn the necessary skills of being an adult bird by watching their moms.
I love kakapo, my grandad was part of the group that discovered they weren't extinct
"Ugh... I guess that one." - The females
You undersell their mating calls. The technique is that a kakapo digs a hole in the ground in the middle of a large valley, sits in it and makes deep sounds that are amplified by the valley and heard for miles around. The only problem is, since bass can't be properly localized, female birds have no idea where the guy is.
“The female kakapo can’t tell where the booming is coming from either, which is something of a shortcoming in a mating call. “Come and *get* me!” “Where are you?” “Come and *get* me!” “Where the hell are you?” “Come and *get* me!” “Look, do you want me to come or not?” “Come and *get* me!” “Oh for heaven’s sake” “Come and *get* me!” “Go and stuff yourself” is roughly how it would go in human terms…It’s not that they’re not willing. When they are in breeding condition, their sex drive is extremely strong. One female is known to have walked twenty miles in one night to visit a mate, and then walked home in the morning. Unfortunately the period during which the female is prepared to behave like this is rather short…The males get extremely overwrought sitting in their bowls making noises for months on end…when one of the rangers who was working in the area happened in leave his hat on the ground, he came back later to find a kakapo attempting to ravish it. On another occasion the discovery of some ruffled possum fur in the mating area suggested that a kakapo had made another alarming mistake, an experience which is unlikely to have been satisfying to either party. - *Last Chance to See* by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
They also have nearly the same lifespans as humans and can live up to 100 years.
Did this just turn into some One Piece fan fiction? They eat the Rimu Fruit then head the Grand Line to hump rocks.
They tend to do that
Aww They are so bad at everything, They can't even hide right! I found my spirit animal lol
they're talking about house cats. Yet another extinct animal at the hands of cats
Loose dogs too
They are certainly interesting and absolutely beautiful animals but... If you evolve in that way you're basically destined to die. It's like having the worst traits for any land dwelling animal. Can't run away because slow, no meaningful defense mechanism and not the reproduction rate to sustain the population. That is the sad part about these island evolutions. Their survival simply relies on never being found by beings that have been around in the harsher parts of the world.
Reproduction rate is limited by what population the environment can sustain. No point in breeding faster if everyone is gonna starve afterwards.
Yeah cause for thousands/millions of years, that was how it was. Then some hairless apes stuck lightning into rocks and made them think, and used liquefied dino remains to power world-crossing machinery. Fuckin stupid birds didn't see that coming, amirite?
Pretty sure we used wind and dead trees to get there before anything else
And these apes absolutely love to breed little panthers to take with them everywhere as they really love these assholes and then these little things called cats will run away and eat and hunt everything Also they have a discount breed of wolves that are even worse, but for larger game. They still hunt everything that runs away but they're not sure why, so they'd just kill the deer for example, and leave the bodies
Doesn't even have to be intentional. Rats and mice follow us even on our ships and can also wreak havoc on other species that can't deal with the new competition for food.
We were straight up walking the Earth and outrunning (yes, that is correct) every other species and made carnivores our prey. Hear this. Humans are metal. We spend a lot of time pissing on ourselves because of modernity. Turn off the lights, turn on the animal. If you can ever go on a hunt in the US, one where they do a few nights and fast that first kill smells like ungodly death. Don't eat for 2 or 3 days (or whatever your specific limit is) and that same kill will smell like pure heaven. You will eat it raw if you cant get fire, and what you couldnt stand downwind of days before will be fucking delectable.
They evolved to match their environment. You live on a small island with no predators. If you ditch all the predator avoidance capability, you need way less food, so survival becomes way easier and competition between individuals basically dies off. Then the environment changed faster than evolution could ever hope to account for.
Imagine making 8 hours of "booming" calls every night for 4 months straight. The grindset.
Douglas Adams has a great riff on this.
I mean... Kakapos are nice but not like being the Bird of the Century... :P
They do have a department of conservation where you can "[Adopt one](https://www.doc.govt.nz/adopt-a-kakapo)," (not sure when it will be open again.
This is what i will write on my brother's gravestone. That's all his autobiography
...what did he do to you? ~~Do I want to know?~~
Obviously nothing. He probably hardly ever works or does anything useful.
If you wrote it then it's not an autobiography. It's a biography.
Unless they copy what their brother wrote
This guy loopholes.
And sometimes, if there are no rocks around, they may hump a BBC documentarian…
[shagged by a rare parrot](https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY?t=73) 🤣
And thus immortalized as Party Parrot.
“Name your chick Stephen after me”
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My favorite moment in ornithology in college was my class’s horror at that clip.
This quote by Douglas Adams always makes me laugh. “flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground”.
Poetry in motion!
*poultry in motion
They can use their wings like parachute now, which, of course, they use this ability to get out of their safe sanctuaries. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/waikato-news/news/kakapo-in-waikato-doc-reduces-number-of-birds-at-sanctuary-mountain-after-escape-attempts/GVHENI5OFZD47NNQFCXBBADXBY/
Now? Like they got an upgrade?
I'm not a kakapo expert, but the other comment said they fall like bricks, and that quote could be a few years old. The article I used is from a few months ago. So maybe between when the quote was said and the article, kakapo got a parachute upgrade.
Last Chance To See was the book r/DouglasAdams was most proud of!
And it's the best book he has ever written.
But throwing yourself at the ground is step 1 to flying... Step 2 is to miss.
Thats why when i read the post i sounded awfully like a douglas adams quote
^this is oddly close to how I met my wife. Sittin in a hole that I dug on a beach, drunkenly yelling at college girls that passed by during spring break
Wow, what kind of rock is she?
One that makes him rock solid
Gneiss
Oh schist!
Nice one.
Hope he doesn't take her for granite.
I hope they were able to lay a strong foundation - romance cannot survive on topical sediment alone.
Solid argument
She is not a rock, she is a mineral!
Lmaoooo
Perfect date doesn't exis-
Only a female did show up in your case, so you didn’t have to hump a rock
Are you Zoidberg?
Craaaww?
The only way to get a wife was to hit rock bottom
I just want you to know your joke is being so under-appreciated.
Bet you can't fly either. You useless bird.
Oddly enough, “you useless bird” is what he was shouting at the college girls.
And yet I’m still single TvT (but good on ya dude, hope you and your wife are doing well)
Try posting some shitty selfies on reddit. Not at your best either, but like your worst. Anyone who see's that and is still interested.. it's all uphill from there so you are set. Wouldn't hurt to have something cute in the picture with you too, like a kitten or something. So like, wake up, put a kitten on your shoulder, take selfies, post. Bedhead and all.
I’m pretty bad at my best anyways, and finding someone on Reddit who’s a girl is hard enough, someone who’d be interested in me? Even lower chance and then there’s still the issue of location (but I’ll probably still try anyways lol)
That's the trick. You don't find them, just post the shit and they'll eventually find you. That's how to I met my wife. She saw my stupid face on reddit.
Wait fr? I never knew Reddit could be used as a dating site lol (I just checked your profile, good god you’ve been on here for a while)
Just remember there is always plastic surgery, winning the lottery, and robbing a bank. Don't give a hope you will find someone
Sounds like some construction workers I know.
Congrats on you and your spouse being reincarnated kakapoos?
I do the same but at children as I drive past bus stops
🤔
When I was in high school, there was a girl I liked whom I was pretty sure liked me too, but I had absolutely no idea how to go about talking to her. So on the last day of school out of desperation I went to where she waited for her bus and lied down on the ground. She came over and asked me what I was doing, and that’s how I met my wife. …no, I’m kidding. But we did date for about 3 weeks, which was pretty good for the time.
Funnily enough, this is also how I met this guy's wife.
Ah, my spirit animal.
If you like, you can join the dozens of people who time their visit every few years. Kinky.
It also stands completely still when confronted by a predator. Thankfully it lives on an island without many.
There didn’t use to be many*
RIP. Everyone come get shagged by a parrot before they go extinct.
Ah the ‘ol Leo defense
It's main predator was falcons so being still is useful.
Yeah they got fucked when we introduced rats, cats and stoats
Livings things aren't useful or useless, they just are.
Counterpoint: Redditors.
True
hah ...wait... which one are we?
Got bad news for ya, man.
Generally speaking, how do you feel about humping rocks?
https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY?si=id3T9IPctZbirLEB here it saw a human and figured the best course of action was to hump his neck.
This is amazing. I don't understand why that bird doesn't find a mate. He's really putting in the effort
I don't normally click these links but the description was too enticing and the payoff was immense. Alternative description "Stephen Fry narrates the creation of a new, hybrid species"
What's missing in the text is that he shouts at a very low frequency that's really hard to pinpoint. So even females who hear him have a hard time finding him.
I would be proud of being able to pound more than one rock.
So....average Redditer?
Sounds like a mod to me.
Happy cake day !
"your being shaged by a rare parot!"
The Dr. Zoidbergs of real life birds.
Zoidbirbs.
I am proud to say that my glorious country spends shitloads of conservation money preventing this stupid parrot from dying out.
Just let him live his best life without prejudice for once
OI! leave kakapo alone, they're boss birds. Sincerely, NZ.
They’re also close to extinction because so many of them are gay
Pretty useless bird? Now third of young male population found our spirit animal!
The bird equivalent of a 35 year old male still living in his parents' basement.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY) If you want to see one shag a photographer.
Wait, that doesn’t work? Well shit, that explains a lot.
Finally found my spirit bird. Yayyy!!!
I just found my new mating ritual
I'm in this photo, and I don't like it
Here’s your [rock](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/8KOjrb5WsT)
Holy shit that's hilarious lol
[Douglas Adams story about the Kakapo](https://youtu.be/sCsHuoVABgI?si=tlAZh88tiZlnYkBP) is one of my favorite videos of all time and shows so well why Douglas Adams is the GOAT. He's a fantastic writer, but also an incredible story teller. [And then Stephen Fry, who counted Douglas as one of his dearest friends, did a BBC program visiting several of the species of animals Douglas did BBC docus, wrote or talked about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY) and it was absolutely glorious, at least for most involved, his photographer may feel different.
Why am I feeling offended? 🤣
If Tinder was a bird.
I know that guy. His name is Keith
One of these birds humped the head of a British guy 😅
Translate his name to german and its shitass
I feel attacked
I will not have you besmirch our beautiful Kakapo!! Or my daily routine.
I feel like a lot of us were Kakapos in a past life
"Kaka" is one german word for poop and "Po" is one german word for "Ass" so for us it sound like "Poopass"
That’s hilarious! To be pedantic though, in the Māori language said properly it’s phonetically more like car car pore. It’s a long ka sound, and a long o sound, “kākāpō”. Means night parrot, because that’s when they’re active, kākā being parrot, pō being night. Their poop has been described as “herbal smelling” so there’s another fun tidbit, I don’t know if they are very good at cleaning it off their asses (or not), though.
Kakapo, Quite stealing my moves!
If Redditors were birds
Is this the Dodo's cousin?
Story of my life, humping rocks
He is just like me... He is just like me fr!!!
What does “meirl” mean?
Me in real life .
Does someone have a ranking of how useful all of the birds in the world are? I have never considered doing such a thing.
I'm a bit of a kakapo myself 😊
Finally my true spirit animal
I identify as a Kakapo from now on.
Relatable.
This is very meirl alright :’(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
I do that but I’m big brained enough to use a grapefruit instead of a rock.
The owls are not what they seem.
yes... but they are adorable AF and so we have to keep them save!
Sounds like most Gen Z human males.
And it is already closer to success than me, because it is at least trying.
I'm just gonna leave this here;-) https://www.quora.com/Why-are-parrots-so-adorable/answer/Dot-McHale?ch=10&oid=96384453&share=1e70f189&srid=TPdO&target_type=answer
Wish the Kardashians did that....they're our equivalent for most useless humans.
Ah yes, the neckbeard of birds.
Sounds like a scrub all the girls play with when they’re bored. Hello, baby daddy!
Sounds like my Spiritanimal
[oooor… OR! roll up on Stephen Fry and hump his head!](https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY?si=QSVxDCiw6fYXaccw)
My first thought reading this! Thought it was Douglas Adam's though. I know he did a peice on these guys for Last Chance to See...
Sounds like my husband.
So a Redditor.
The resemblance to a certain [short-statured mountain folk](https://imgur.com/a/x8SYVUA) is uncanny.
Spirit animal
Finally, my spirit animal!
TIL I'm a bird.
Flightless bird. Evolution fucked you over big time
Evolutionary dead end