Comment on ex-kakapo
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoAnd on this note I can highly recommend the book “Last chance to see” that this TV show was based on. There also an audio book version read by Adams
Douglas Adams and Cawardine go around the world in the 80s to try to find almost extinct animals
When they created the tv show the plan was to revisit them, but a couple of animals went extinct in the meantime
Kakapo population is the only one that was somewhat positive, iirc
The aye-aye is also doing much better, mostly because the population size was severely underestimated at the time of writing.
And yeah, the book is amazing. I usually describe it to fans of his other works as somehow being his weirdest book, despite being non-fiction.
ladicius@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That book was his best book in his own rating. I agree.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yup
I kept forgetting that the stuff actually happened. Because the humor just feels like straight out of h2g2