Few things make me laugh as hard as bird sex does. Why? Who knows. It's just funny. It's especially funny when it's bird sex that makes no apparent sense, like when my budgies go crazy on a pair of dice.
On that note!
You may have already seen the following video clip of a Kakapo, Sirocco, making unwelcome sexy bird time on zoologist Mark Carwardine's head (it's been viral for a while now), but in case you haven't, courtesy of the BBC, a clip from Last Chance to See:
The Kakapo is a highly endangered, flightless parrot from New Zealand. They were having a pretty good time on their food-rich, predator-free islands until human colonists came along, accompanied by various carnivorous mammals (cats and various stowaway rodents, for instance), which were pretty psyched to find a lot of big, meaty, relatively helpless birds hanging around.
Today, the 126 living Kakapo (up from only 50 in 1995 according to the Kakapo Recovery Project!) are kept on three islands that remain predator-free and are carefully monitored.
I hear that they smell good.
A couple links for more info on Kakapo, one of my favorite species of fatass bird:
The Kakapo Recovery Project
Kakapo on Wikipedia
And by the way, Sirocco has a facebook page!
Holy crap! I made your dad look at this video yesterday!
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