20 little truth is known about rare kakapo

20 little truth is known about rare kakapo

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Have you heard about Kakapos before?

Perhaps you didn't see a person flying around and having a good reason for that!

After reading these facts, you will love them a lot, and you can even be ready to leave New Zealand to see a living person.

Here are the rarest truth about Kakapos.

Kakapos is the only non-flying parrots in the world.

Although they cannot use their wings as other birds do, they can still get from one point to another thanks to their strong legs.

These non-flying parrots are uncomfortable pedestrians.

They only use their short wings when they need a body balance or paragliding on the tree.

You can find them in New Zealand, but only when you're lucky.

According to the New Zealand Conservation Department, as of August 2018, only 147 individuals around the world.

So make them hard to find birds in the wilderness.

They are also added to the red threatened species of IUCN.

They live for over 90 years.

Their lifesports are great.

However, some scholars describe their way of life as if they were living in a time capsule.

Kakapos did not hurry, they grown slowly, they were born slowly and they died slowly.

If you like honey odor, you can like the smell of a kakapo.

Kakapos is known for the sweet smell reminding of honey odor.

However, their smell can give a hint for hungry predators.

Kakapo was chosen as one of the worst animals in the world.

In a contest organized to raise awareness about endangered species, Kakapo has a second place after a deep sea fish species.

Everyone has a different flavor.

Personally, I saw attractive kakapos because of brilliant colors and sharp eyes.

Although it was a parrot, it looked very similar to Owls.

In fact, in addition to facial appearance looks their same, they also share similar behaviors.

Both birds, kakapos and owls, even at night.

Meaning, they are more active in the night.

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According to Cornell University publication, Kakapos is one of the best "crushers" on this planet.

People have 400 function olfactory functions, while Kakapos owns 667.

Kakapos is the heaviest among all other parrots.

Some people can doubt their fat body structure is the cause of them not to fly.

However, it is still controversial.

Is Kakapos unable to fly because they are fat, or they are fat because they don't fly?

They reproduce when there are abundant achievements of Rumi.

That happens once in two to four years.

Dr. Pamela von Hurst from Massey University found that fruits of rumi, more specifically, the content of vitamin D and calcium content stimulates Kakapo.

Scientists now believe that discovery can be real changing games in Kakapo breeding and increasing their population.

Kakapos lives alone in distant islands without predators.

That means they live without a fear of becoming a prey for a hungry creature.

Some scholars hypothesized that Kakapos did not learn how to fly because they didn't encounter any fear and urge himself, unlike many other birds.

Kakapos is important in history for Native Maori New Zealand.

Kakapos can easily access protein sources for them.

So when people start to people with people there with cats and dogs, Kakapos populations are almost wiped out.

Thanks to recent conservation activities, they were blocked extinction.

They stop and freeze if they feel threatened.

It was Kakapos's defense mechanism.

That method works well for them because their camouflage feathers blend with the vegetation of nature quite well, making them difficult to detect.

All existing Kakapos have cool names.

You can learn all their names with a heart because there aren't too many of them.

In addition to their names, their family history and lives are also being recorded.

For example, Maggie Kakapo is the second female taken on the Steward Islands.

She was first found in March 1980. Unfortunately, she died in 2014 due to the collapse of a landslide.

Currently, they are being kept in the island without predators.

Cod and anchor islands are home for kakapos.

They are being monitored on regular bases to maintain their health.

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The word "Kaka" means parrot and "po" means night.

The reason is clear, Kakapos is operating more at night and they sleep during the day.

Kakapos completely eats grass.

In other words, they stick to plant-based diets.

They eat berries, fruits, nuts and nuts.

However, their favorite foods in all are fruits of rumi trees.

If this result is rich, they don't like anything else.

Although they are lacking wings to fly on the tree, they climbed it by climbing mountains.

Kakapos is the birds, after all, so they want to be on the tree like any other birds do.

So they climbed it by using their strong legs, and returned by parachuting with wings.

Unlike most birds, Kakapos builds their nests on the ground or in an empty trunk.

In some cases, their nests can also be found under the ground, inside the natural tooth decay.

The birds put 1-4 eggs every reproduction season.

Eggs hatch within 29-30 days.

Mother care lasts about 6 months, until young kakapos adapts to independent life.

The Kakapo recovery program has equipped all Kakapos with GPS tracking devices to track their movements remotely.

In addition, every current Kakapos is checked for personal health at the end of the year.

In other words, they are being treated like royal!

The number of Kakapo population is growing regularly.

Of course, it's a great news.

Fortunately, the establishment of Kakapo recovery programs has helped increase their quantity regularly.

2016 is a boom for Kakapo breeding, which has increased their number of 28%.