• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days 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.

    • shrugs@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

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