7/16/2004: Baby kakapo

Undertoad · 07-16-2004, 10:52 AM

Kakapo? Don't use such fowl language!

This is one of the rarest species of parrot, only found in New Zealand, and it sure looks like this may be a case where the babies (as pictured above) are uglier than the adults (as pictured below):

They are in the news because New Zealand is giving turkey vaccines to these birds, because they seem to be having trouble with a disease after having been moved by humans to a new island home. There are so few of them that the sudden deaths of three of them have officials panicky. full story

07-16-2004, 10:52 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	7/16/2004: Baby kakapo Kakapo? Don't use such fowl language! This is one of the rarest species of parrot, only found in New Zealand, and it sure looks like this may be a case where the babies (as pictured above) are uglier than the adults (as pictured below): They are in the news because New Zealand is giving turkey vaccines to these birds, because they seem to be having trouble with a disease after having been moved by humans to a new island home. There are so few of them that the sudden deaths of three of them have officials panicky. full story

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