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ex-kakapo (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 55 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Saw a tiktok Instagram about a kakapo once. The phrase lives rent-free in my head: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJt_wHSCfxW/

Translated from german:

The kakapo is the fluffiest mistake evolution never deleted. The stupid Kakapo. Everything about him screams: "I was never meant to survive". He is fat, he can't fly and he walks like an old stool with wheels build out of moss.

In dangerous situations he just stands still. His survival instinct is "acting as if he im not there". His biggest enemy? Everything! Cats, dogs, rats even time...

Poor kakapo!

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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