ex-kakapo

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When there is no rock around, it can opt for Stephen Fry instead.

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  • Mitchmaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was Mark Carwadine who got the honor of being shagged by a rare parrot, Stephen Fry was just spectating.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And 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

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  • NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For the uninitiated

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• shrugs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Saw a tiktok about a kakapo once. The phrase lives rent-free in my head: www.instagram.com/reel/DJt_wHSCfxW/

  Translated from german:

  The kakapo is the fluffiest mistake evolution never deleted. The stupid Kakapo. Everything about him screams: “I was never meant to survive”. He is fat, he can’t fly and he walks like an old stool with wheels build out of moss.

  In dangerous situations he just stands still. His survival instinct is “acting as if he im not there”. His biggest enemy? Everything! Cats, dogs, rats even time…

  Poor kakapo!

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To quote Douglas Adams:

    [The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it’s about to trip over something — but 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.

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    • shrugs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn, I even have read Douglas Adams in the past, but what I remember is that shitty short video, sad

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• sturger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Replace “dig a hole” with “live in mom’s basement” and this describes another common species as well.

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Let’s replace “shouting” with “shouting over discord” and turn “female” into “femboy” to make it even more accurate.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Being ignored by femboys would make any man depressed enough to fuck a cold hard rock tbf.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  After reading the descriptions here, how DO they survive? I’m assuming on some island where they have no significant predators?

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    New Zealand, yeah

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Its name is “poo” twice. Fitting.

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• TurtleTourParty@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ok, but on New Zealand there were no land predators, only air and water predators, so digging a hole or staying still in the dense forest was a good survival strategy.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel personally attacked.

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Relatable.

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• Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net Dis your cousin?

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  • Dort_Owl@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, be nice to him.

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