Did anyone see the Kakapo last night on TV, I was creased up..

[eyeshade]

it was the funniest thing I had seen for a long time, this huge green parrot that can't fly, and extremely rare, crawled up the cameraman's body to then proceed to have his end away with his head...soo funny and the bird was flapping his wings as well, probably the most fun he'd had in a long time! Did anyone else see it?
ES

[fredpuli47]

Yes, very amusing to watch ! The bird must be rare because a) it mistakes a man for a female parrot (indicating it never sees a female parrot) or b) the species spends all its time and energy trying to mate with anything and therefore never gets around to mating correctly, except by mistake.

Of course it could be (c) that it's like male dogs, who try to mate with the leg of anyone but I rule that out because dogs are not rare. They breed well, have plenty of females and don't rely on mating with one of them by chance.They just enjoy humping in the meantime.

[Mr Veritas]

Yep, as someone said.
"This is a bird that has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly!"

Oh dear frepuli,
Maybe ALL me are like the Kakapo(they will mate with anything that stands still that is?)

[jno]

hilarious, wasn't it. Swatting one cheek then the other (female birds must love that as much as poor Mark Carwardine did).

I think it's because it's been hand-reared that it assumes it's human - that does sometimes happen to parrots, I believe. But it was apparently the only one like that, which is why the ecologists were so careful about letting humans approach any of the wild ones.

[mrs.chappie]

I was amazed at how much staying power the bird had!

We have taken in lots of birds over the years, seen many of them mating - but none that lasted as long as that one!

[jno]

I imagine it takes a bit longer with all the foreplay when the other party doesn't actually want to do it, mrs c

[daffy654]

For those who haven't seen the clip :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMeY40ovjos