Also, before anyone says this is old news, yes 7 years ago it was also a record breaking season and i wouldn't be surprised if other media just copy pasted the article they had from back then: https://bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-47960764

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that "kakapo", if read as a German word, means "shittybutt".

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When an ornithologist gets pooped on....

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It can get so much worse.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can recommend the Douglas Adams book this series is based on. It's so damn funny (and sad)

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Anything Douglas Adams is generally goated.:-)

[–] lath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I know I've only seen one relatively famous video about kakapo birds and my question may be biased in most part due to it, but are we sure they're worth the trouble?

[–] Danarchy 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True story: to try to help these birds reproduce they invented a fuck-helmet.

The human would wear the fuck-helmet and let the bird fuck the helmet so as to collect that very valuable birdcum

do you dare to click this informative link?

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It seems they neither invented the fuck-helmet-for-birds (they mention getting the idea from kestrel researchers) nor did it work.

Not sure if I'm happy about that or not...