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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • 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.




  • 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