Oh, I've seen that one. Mark Carwardine is his name, and -- I can't speak for him -- but I feel it would be an honour to be violated by a kakapo. Incidentally, I think it's *good* we have enough recent footage of these freaky parrots that we don't need to reuse 10+ years old footage. There are still far too few of them, but they're on the rebound
@@exmachinz Not necessarily. Maybe your educational background is more vast than original commenter *shrugging* Mind you I hope they appreciate the truth you kindly shared. As the indigenous people of New Zealand do not have letter "S" *fistbump* May you both lead a life y'all enjoy bc that's best all over for our own wellbeing *peacesign* Live long and prosper 🖖🏾🖖🏾🚹🚺🚻🤓🤓🤓🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🖖🏾
"if humans can give a name for every member of your species, things are not going well for you." you mean, like.... humans? i mean, you're not wrong...
Despite the constant fretting over the world ending, humanity has been doing consistently better over the long term. The only real issue facing us right now is the sudden increase in misinformation that came with Facebook's explosion of older members in 2014-2016.
@@austinshoupe3003 And the encroaching effects of climate change. And the ever increasing gap between those at the top of the socio-economic pecking order and the bottom. And the ease of disease to spread through our globalized world. I could go on, but... I think y'all get it.
@@ShadowMageAlpha I'm sorry, but I don't think you are applying context. Medical science is at a point we're we likely would not have a repeat of the bubonic plague or spanish flu. Diseases can spread easily but Covid, as bad as it's been, does not touch either of those earlier instances. Vaccines are also preventing all sorts of awful diseases such as polio and the various poxes. Socio economic diversity is definitely on the down trend in developed nations, but among all nations the gap is closing. Also, our current state of socio split doesn't touch that of pre 1940s or the racial split pre 1990s. The climate issue is persisting largely due to our misinformation issue. Too many politicians continuing to be reelected because their supports don't believe we have influenced climate change. Those same people tend to not want to participate in global strategies that will reduce the emissions of developing nations. Overall, the world is getting better about emissions, just not quick enough. Fix the misinformation issue (which honestly means waiting until the boomers die off in significant numbers) and the climate issue becomes manageable. Same with repeats of covid. The disease was well maintained in much of the world. The US just sucked at it because the president declared it a hoax. Other nations that struggled were nations also struggling with similar surges of nationalist, science refuting movements. Things look bad over the 5 year trend. Long term were still trending up.
its thought that's why a lot of birds are extinct in New Zealand, moas for example being curious walking up to the first humans there who wanted to make them dinner.
I donʻt know if this is an interesting fact, but anyways: Kākāpō literally means ‘Night parrot’ (kākā - parrot, pō - night). My favourite bird. Cutey chubbies and heartbreaking
@@swimmingpigeon7034i reckon only if we drag them out on the street to shave there little kitty heads to brand them the traitors to new zealand they are....
This video added a whole new anxiety to my life I didn't realize I needed. As a violin teacher with a large number of student instruments on hand to rent out, I'm going to start being extra vigilant for stoats and cats being attracted to my musty smelling cases. I mean - I hadn't noticed the musty smell myself, but maybe it's there and I just got used to it! Aaccck!
as a violinist, I think they're talking about that smell of like, rosin and old wood and such that hits you when you open an older violin case. which is a nice smell, so now I love kakapos more than I already did.
@@mimisezlol I know, but aren't you worried about all the predators he mentioned who are also attracted to the scent? Are our instruments in danger? (I guess if we get them out often, we're safe... 😅)
@@Judymontel if a cat shows up and discovers that the smell only leads to a weird shaped wooden box, they won't associate the smell with food anymore, just betrayal. How dare we open our violin cases and not have food inside. This is a major crime.
We also had the largest eagle - the haast eagle that used to prey on the Moa, it is said they could pick up and fly away with small children. They went extinct when the Moa did.
5:15. I notice that the original range of the kakapo is almost completely outside that of the Hass eagle, which only went extinct 200 years ago. That was the largest predator on South Island, pretty well limited to the east & north sides.
I wish I could just buy a school's worth of pins and make this a monthly thing in schools. children should get these and have fun watching this channel. every child with their favorite animal pin waiting to hear about the next beast. thank you hank green you're just one of many heroes I hope to live up to the standards you set as a person. be awesome.
5:36 That's so damn cute. I know we shouldn't save things based on cuteness alone and should value them for their own sake (and I do), but just this once can we all agree to not mess this one up and save these adorable weird chubby parrots? Please and Thank you.
Okay, but now you have to look at the Kea. They’re ALSO just as bizarre as Kea. They’re the ONLY alpine parrot and there are a lot of reports, AND PICTURES, of them sitting on the backs of sheep and EATING THEM? They’re also super super smart, and super super mischievous.
Fun fact! Parrots are often strongly scented, at least in a way we can smell. That's an observation I've made anyway. My jardine's parrot just passed away in a freak accident last weekend, but she smelled amazing. It's like a musty-sweet smell bird parents all love. My blue and gold macaw, Merlin, smells the best of all my birds. I love giving him a big obnoxious sniff and then dramatically going "AHH, I love the smell of boy in the morning" while he stands there like ??? But the best smelling parrot I've ever encountered in my time working in rescue are blue headed pionus. Dude it's literally like they're wearing a mild, sweet but still faintly musty perfume. I'm don't do perfumes but I'd wear it. She smells incredible and she can be smelled a few feet, not just point blank like almost every other parrot.
What about the bit where they roost in trees but can't fly so they fall out every morning like feathery rocks? If you're wondering how they get into the trees, they can climb.
I was in a back country hut in the middle of the South Island and one cruised out of the bush in broad daylight, mooched around the hut for a while and sauntered off back into the tussock. Quite the lucky sighting
Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I was caught of guard by the English language randomly incorporating Swedish words, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Right? Lek in Swedish means unstructured play, as in by children. So the birds are said to be playing with each other.
It also catches me offguard, when German words (except the usual ones) are used in a scientific context. It never stops being funny to me, even tho it's really common in some fields
I literally went to the info tab because I kept seeing all of your pins and wanted to see if they were in your shop, and then, SURPRISE MYSTERY PIN GRAB BAGS, my only weakness
As a NZer, I say "Well done!" regarding this presentation. I have seen so many items on NZ that are just plain wrong or confused or get the wrong tone or angle. This is all facts, a light touch, no mocking, just excellent. Thanks!
If I'm not mistaken, the kakapo is the bird used as Twitch's RareParrot and PartyParrot emotes. I absolutely adore both, especially PartyParrot. Keep these little meme birbs alive!
I’ve long suspected that Kevin’s body shape is indeed based on ratites - a group of birds which does include moa, among others (ex. kiwi, emu, ostrich). Ratites are found throughout the southern hemisphere, including South America, so it would make sense for Kevin to be one of these. However, there are no ratites which have feathers as colourful as Kevin!
When he said smell, I was thinking something awful, like skunks. But a musty smell wouldn't be all that bad. Also, the kakapos are cute when doing that little "dance" and their fuzzy faces are cuter than the average parrot.
I hope that I can reach a point in my career in Pacific island forest ecology that I can leverage my influence enough to get to one of the two strictly controlled islands where kakapō are and see/smell one. THEY'RE SO WEIRD. I LOVE THEM. And also I'm curious to know if their smell is the same as the Hawaiian honeycreeper smell... another group of birds that evolved without mammal predators and have a musty smell that is now, in the presence of invasive mammals, maladaptive.
I already knew most of this. Because I have a gamer friend from New Zealand. But I'm supper excited to get the pin. It's a great way to start up a conversation about it. :)
@@allisonbergh4429 Sorry but it's my real name. Which is hard sometimes. Facebook actually had me send a picture of my driver's license twice to prove it was. Which I don't understand because I've seen people on their that I'm pretty sure aren't using there real name. But it's nice to meet another Allison with two L's. Most have one.
@@allisonwonderland5149 Those “Alison”s are wrong. As are the “Allyson”s and “Allysen”s and any other wrong attempt at spelling the best name. I have to ask though: Were your parents being overly clever, did you choose it yourself (which would be awesome), or did you marry into it? (For me, it was something kids called me in grade school in an attempt to be mean, which backfired spectacularly due to them being dumb and not realizing it’s lowkey brilliant)
October 2024 update 😇: The Kakapo population has now reached 250+ as of 2023. The population rescue started with 50 birds in 1998, and has now reached to 250+. 😍😍
The pins are long gone, but we do have 3-D printed kākāpō figurines! complexly.store/products/kakapo-3-d-printed-figurine
An entire video about the kakapo that doesn't show the BBC clip with Stephen Fry where one gets busy on that guy's head. That is impressive restraint.
That particular kākāpō does make an appearance at 5:27 though.
Oh, I've seen that one. Mark Carwardine is his name, and -- I can't speak for him -- but I feel it would be an honour to be violated by a kakapo.
Incidentally, I think it's *good* we have enough recent footage of these freaky parrots that we don't need to reuse 10+ years old footage. There are still far too few of them, but they're on the rebound
"You are being shagged by a rare parrot".
It sounds like a Monty Python skit. :)
All the rest of the clips weren’t enough for you?😄
That video is legendary
A MAGNIFICENT CHONK.
Ah, yes DA CHONK
Being from New Zealand I don't think Kakapos are bizarre, just cute, and in need of protection. thank you for telling the world about them.
Being from NZ you should know that Maori nouns are the same in singular and plural: a Kakapo, some Kakapo
@@exmachinz Not necessarily. Maybe your educational background is more vast than original commenter *shrugging*
Mind you I hope they appreciate the truth you kindly shared.
As the indigenous people of New Zealand do not have letter "S" *fistbump*
May you both lead a life y'all enjoy bc that's best all over for our own wellbeing *peacesign*
Live long and prosper 🖖🏾🖖🏾🚹🚺🚻🤓🤓🤓🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🖖🏾
No fighting or I'll turn this car around and you won't get any ice cream
have you thought about just shooting the predators?
They, the colonists to New Zealand, *_BROUGHT_* the predators, ostensibly to deal with some other critters they found undesirable.
"if humans can give a name for every member of your species, things are not going well for you."
you mean, like.... humans? i mean, you're not wrong...
I was going to comment that
Despite the constant fretting over the world ending, humanity has been doing consistently better over the long term. The only real issue facing us right now is the sudden increase in misinformation that came with Facebook's explosion of older members in 2014-2016.
Yep hes very right
@@austinshoupe3003 And the encroaching effects of climate change. And the ever increasing gap between those at the top of the socio-economic pecking order and the bottom. And the ease of disease to spread through our globalized world. I could go on, but... I think y'all get it.
@@ShadowMageAlpha I'm sorry, but I don't think you are applying context. Medical science is at a point we're we likely would not have a repeat of the bubonic plague or spanish flu. Diseases can spread easily but Covid, as bad as it's been, does not touch either of those earlier instances. Vaccines are also preventing all sorts of awful diseases such as polio and the various poxes.
Socio economic diversity is definitely on the down trend in developed nations, but among all nations the gap is closing. Also, our current state of socio split doesn't touch that of pre 1940s or the racial split pre 1990s.
The climate issue is persisting largely due to our misinformation issue. Too many politicians continuing to be reelected because their supports don't believe we have influenced climate change. Those same people tend to not want to participate in global strategies that will reduce the emissions of developing nations. Overall, the world is getting better about emissions, just not quick enough. Fix the misinformation issue (which honestly means waiting until the boomers die off in significant numbers) and the climate issue becomes manageable. Same with repeats of covid. The disease was well maintained in much of the world. The US just sucked at it because the president declared it a hoax. Other nations that struggled were nations also struggling with similar surges of nationalist, science refuting movements.
Things look bad over the 5 year trend. Long term were still trending up.
Aaah, yes. My favorite of the flightless dinosaurs. The one that answers the age old question: what if cat but birb?
Isn’t that just an owl?
What?
But the cats clearly don't appreciate the resemblance, vis a vis the cats eating them to the point of extinction.
Birb cats are owls.
Kakapos are victorian gentleman birbs.
@@blacky_Ninja indeed
That is like the most friendly bird you can encountered in the wild, they don't even wanna run/fly away from us omg xD
@Teamgeist it's cool, I'm into that
That's just because their defense mechanism is to freeze.
its thought that's why a lot of birds are extinct in New Zealand, moas for example being curious walking up to the first humans there who wanted to make them dinner.
Hahah yes "friendly", just watch your necks don't get shacked.
Make them dinner? How cute.
No, make *_them_* dinner. ☠️😬
Thanks for repping my babies Hank - Advocacy Ranger for the Kakapo Recovery Team =)
Thank you so much for doing this work!
“The one thing that birds are supposed to do”, i.e. suddenly appear every time you are near
Just like me, they long to be, close to you
I died at "And they choose a male for reasons unknown to science."
That's how I feel when a woman agrees to a date with me. [dead]
*one male, not a male, very different meaning
I think my favorite is the explanation of their breeding systems ending with him saying that males had to compete for females by sheer sexiness
@@jek__ yeah, Hank was very clear on his wording and people just don't get it.
Fun fact that is also why my wife chose me
That booming sound is so subtle on my phone. I can barely sense its presence through vibration on my hands, landing completely deaf on my ears.
I donʻt know if this is an interesting fact, but anyways: Kākāpō literally means ‘Night parrot’ (kākā - parrot, pō - night).
My favourite bird. Cutey chubbies and heartbreaking
Yeah it is heartbreaking. We should ban cats in the south island. would be a good start i reckon
@@MysterySmell I think just making it so every adopted cat has to be an indoor cat would be better
@@swimmingpigeon7034i reckon only if we drag them out on the street to shave there little kitty heads to brand them the traitors to new zealand they are....
In what language? Because in German... kaka=poo, Po=butt.
I just assumed some German scientist decided to humiliate this poor creature (...further).
@@susannadanner906 it’s Maori
This video added a whole new anxiety to my life I didn't realize I needed. As a violin teacher with a large number of student instruments on hand to rent out, I'm going to start being extra vigilant for stoats and cats being attracted to my musty smelling cases. I mean - I hadn't noticed the musty smell myself, but maybe it's there and I just got used to it! Aaccck!
Scares away rapists, too.
😆
as a violinist, I think they're talking about that smell of like, rosin and old wood and such that hits you when you open an older violin case. which is a nice smell, so now I love kakapos more than I already did.
@@mimisezlol I know, but aren't you worried about all the predators he mentioned who are also attracted to the scent? Are our instruments in danger? (I guess if we get them out often, we're safe... 😅)
@@Judymontel if a cat shows up and discovers that the smell only leads to a weird shaped wooden box, they won't associate the smell with food anymore, just betrayal. How dare we open our violin cases and not have food inside. This is a major crime.
@@mimisezlol Thank you for the cat's perspective. It is such a comfort. (And a good point for ferrets and stoats as well!) 😊
We also had the largest eagle - the haast eagle that used to prey on the Moa, it is said they could pick up and fly away with small children. They went extinct when the Moa did.
It’s freaking running a rodent OS on bird hardware.
5:15. I notice that the original range of the kakapo is almost completely outside that of the Hass eagle, which only went extinct 200 years ago. That was the largest predator on South Island, pretty well limited to the east & north sides.
Thank you for actually posting sources, its infuriating how so many channels with great educational content don't do this
Gotta love those rotund weirdos and their heartbeats in the night mating calls ^^
is it weird that I know EXACTLY what "musty violin case" smells like?
Depends. Do you play the violin? If so, not that weird. If you don't - yeah; let's leave it at that.
@@MrAranton lol
@@MrAranton I don't, lol.
Same, as soon as he said it I was catapulted right back to eighth grade orchestra classes
No, it’s really not.
Hank: "Their unusual breeding system: they lek!"
Me: "How the hell they reproduce if they lack a breeding system???"
"Maybe there's still hope for the fattest of parrots" thank you, Hank, for summing it neatly
(Australia and New Zealand could pretty much monopolize this channel.)
4:55 I want that as a cologne. Kākāpō by Kiwi Klein
Ironically, in Cologne, Kakapo means something you don't want to smell like.
I wish I could just buy a school's worth of pins and make this a monthly thing in schools. children should get these and have fun watching this channel. every child with their favorite animal pin waiting to hear about the next beast. thank you hank green you're just one of many heroes I hope to live up to the standards you set as a person. be awesome.
And another cool fact about the Kakapo: Douglas Adams wrote a full chapter about them :)
His description of their escape strategy is simultaneously hilarious and tragic
In which book?
@@EmjiAmsdaughter last chance to see
@@m1shm4sh Thanks!
Now I'm proud to have watched Bizarre Beasts Year I because I know what lecking is!
I got so emotional when he said that their numbers were increasing I'm so happy for them
For the future, you should know that Maori nouns are the same for both singular and plural, like sheep.
So 1 Kakapo, 2 Kakapo
5:36 That's so damn cute. I know we shouldn't save things based on cuteness alone and should value them for their own sake (and I do), but just this once can we all agree to not mess this one up and save these adorable weird chubby parrots? Please and Thank you.
Nocturnal, stinky weirdo was my nickname in high school.
Okay, but now you have to look at the Kea. They’re ALSO just as bizarre as Kea. They’re the ONLY alpine parrot and there are a lot of reports, AND PICTURES, of them sitting on the backs of sheep and EATING THEM? They’re also super super smart, and super super mischievous.
i mean, to be fair, kea try to eat/open/get inside/destroy anything and everything; them tryna get inside a sheep doesn't surprise me
@@alliebean3235 EXACTLY!! They’re so cool!
Hold on, humans have given a name to every single member of another species, that numbers in the billions.
Fun fact! Parrots are often strongly scented, at least in a way we can smell. That's an observation I've made anyway. My jardine's parrot just passed away in a freak accident last weekend, but she smelled amazing. It's like a musty-sweet smell bird parents all love. My blue and gold macaw, Merlin, smells the best of all my birds. I love giving him a big obnoxious sniff and then dramatically going "AHH, I love the smell of boy in the morning" while he stands there like ???
But the best smelling parrot I've ever encountered in my time working in rescue are blue headed pionus. Dude it's literally like they're wearing a mild, sweet but still faintly musty perfume. I'm don't do perfumes but I'd wear it. She smells incredible and she can be smelled a few feet, not just point blank like almost every other parrot.
Best wishes to you and your brother and all your family for happiness and health in 2021.
Thank the spirits 2021 starts out with Hank + Bizarre Beasts. Hanks the man and I want him to narrate everything.
Their dance is precious
Smell like a musty violin case? That's the first time scientists describe an animal smell as something I've had experience with.
I feel like you learned about acorns going crazy this year at John's house and that took you down a rabbit hole. And I love it.
absolutely one of my favorite birds. they’re such delightfully weird little creatures
Theyre like, a gopher plus a bird plus like, a butt ton of moss lmao
I canNOT properly express how gosh-danged excited I am to get my pin!!!
This channel is so good and has a great future. Really glad to be here this early
DO the Kea next! Nobody expects 2 New Zealand parrots!
finally kakapo getting the attention they deserve
The cutest "beast" yet! Thank you for the great work!
2:55 Ladies love it when you drop that bass.
What about the bit where they roost in trees but can't fly so they fall out every morning like feathery rocks? If you're wondering how they get into the trees, they can climb.
This bird is so weird and cute. Thanks for sharing! Your background is rad btw.
I was in a back country hut in the middle of the South Island and one cruised out of the bush in broad daylight, mooched around the hut for a while and sauntered off back into the tussock. Quite the lucky sighting
Thats really cool. I'm super jealous. Pretty sure there's not many kiwi who have seen one.
I´m guessing you should REPORT THAT to the breeding programm ... you may have seen one who has no name (and no protection).
@@CL-go2ji it had plenty of tags on….. was tame as so well used to humans. Pretty awesome to see however!
Okay - then it was just really cool! Congratulations.@@speedmachine69
Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I was caught of guard by the English language randomly incorporating Swedish words, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Right?
Lek in Swedish means unstructured play, as in by children.
So the birds are said to be playing with each other.
yes "playing"
It also catches me offguard, when German words (except the usual ones) are used in a scientific context.
It never stops being funny to me, even tho it's really common in some fields
I literally went to the info tab because I kept seeing all of your pins and wanted to see if they were in your shop, and then, SURPRISE MYSTERY PIN GRAB BAGS, my only weakness
Such goofy looking animals. Love it.
Musty violin case is oddly specific
Okay, but that "booming" was definitely just a light saber and you can't tell me otherwise
Hank being confused is... Adorable
I love kakapos so much! They make me smile.
I'm sticking with my theory that NZ is where Pokémon come from. The Kakapo! Even it's name sounds like a Pokémon!
They are so cute.
I'm late to find this channel, but pre-cancer straight haired Hank is so odd. I like the new you man! :D
As a NZer, I say "Well done!" regarding this presentation.
I have seen so many items on NZ that are just plain wrong or confused or get the wrong tone or angle. This is all facts, a light touch, no mocking, just excellent. Thanks!
LITTLE PENGUINS!!!! Honestly my favourite animal on earth right now
NZ is so wild and gorgeous and bizarre and in my humble opinion has the funniest people on earth.
I guess that one Kakapo got... lekky.
I love those chunky bords so much.
When I was about 9 or 10 I made a kakapo costume for my doll out of an inside-out Dixie paper cup and Crayola markers. What.
These are cute lil skrunkly creatures and are now my favorite bird! Thank you for telling me about them :>
Musty violin case is such a specific scent description that my brain cannot compute
If I'm not mistaken, the kakapo is the bird used as Twitch's RareParrot and PartyParrot emotes. I absolutely adore both, especially PartyParrot. Keep these little meme birbs alive!
It looks like a Dr Seuss character
Smells like a musty violin case? I am sold!
Thank you for covering my favourite bird species, they need so much awareness
They are about the coolest and most adorable birds ever!
“Yaeh maet that buehd smellin loik a mustey vaiolin case” LMAOO THAT IS THE MOST PRECISE AND QUANTIFIABLE DESCRIPTION I HAVE EVER HEARD
I'm a luthier and the "musty violin case" description is...upsettingly evocative
I learned about 5 new words in the past 10 minutes.
The scent is also described as "musty -sweet" like honey
Is Kevin from Up supposed to be an Upland Moa? 'Cause that looks a lot like Kevin.
I’ve long suspected that Kevin’s body shape is indeed based on ratites - a group of birds which does include moa, among others (ex. kiwi, emu, ostrich). Ratites are found throughout the southern hemisphere, including South America, so it would make sense for Kevin to be one of these. However, there are no ratites which have feathers as colourful as Kevin!
@@anonymousdalek8359 Or beaks quite as long. Kevin looks more like a flightless wading bird that became fully terrestrial.
Congratulations on a decent attempt at saying the Māori words. Some overseas commentators make a real hash of it.
When he said smell, I was thinking something awful, like skunks. But a musty smell wouldn't be all that bad. Also, the kakapos are cute when doing that little "dance" and their fuzzy faces are cuter than the average parrot.
"...As you do I guess" is now the newest addition to my vocabulary
0:35
Always been a fan of Moa's. Wish they were still around.
Yep...
"They like eating fruit and making sounds like little tubas all night"
Hey, same.
These little guys are so cute!!
I adore kakapos
woah the booming sounds a lot like a bass
We in NZ are very proud to provide home for a gazillion wee weird flightless beasties!!!!
They are so cute, I have loved them for years! I want a few dozen of them, and an island on which to raise them.
Hooray! Kakapos getting the love they deserve at last!
Well, now....now we need scented pins. That just needs to be a thing.
I knew this was Hank before I saw his cute face. And, love the background!
I see Hank, and you have my full attention!
Kakapo are my favorite animals 😭 thanks for making this
Kakapos trigger my cuteness aggression on a scale priorly unimaginable. Wanna squeesh dat chonky birb.
I read the video title aloud, then farted, and my partner thought I was making a joke about farts!
humans gave a name to every human that exists and we're growing like a weed
I hope that I can reach a point in my career in Pacific island forest ecology that I can leverage my influence enough to get to one of the two strictly controlled islands where kakapō are and see/smell one. THEY'RE SO WEIRD. I LOVE THEM. And also I'm curious to know if their smell is the same as the Hawaiian honeycreeper smell... another group of birds that evolved without mammal predators and have a musty smell that is now, in the presence of invasive mammals, maladaptive.
Adding this thing to the list of "Animals that look like plushies/stuffed toys, for no real reason other than science is weird."
I already knew most of this. Because I have a gamer friend from New Zealand. But I'm supper excited to get the pin. It's a great way to start up a conversation about it. :)
Got very confused when I saw this comment I know I didn’t write, coz Allison Wonderland is my internet name a lot of places 😆
@@allisonbergh4429 Sorry but it's my real name. Which is hard sometimes. Facebook actually had me send a picture of my driver's license twice to prove it was. Which I don't understand because I've seen people on their that I'm pretty sure aren't using there real name. But it's nice to meet another Allison with two L's. Most have one.
@@allisonwonderland5149 Those “Alison”s are wrong. As are the “Allyson”s and “Allysen”s and any other wrong attempt at spelling the best name.
I have to ask though: Were your parents being overly clever, did you choose it yourself (which would be awesome), or did you marry into it? (For me, it was something kids called me in grade school in an attempt to be mean, which backfired spectacularly due to them being dumb and not realizing it’s lowkey brilliant)
October 2024 update 😇: The Kakapo population has now reached 250+ as of 2023.
The population rescue started with 50 birds in 1998, and has now reached to 250+. 😍😍
we actually only have 244
I was not shocked to find out that an animal with the words “kaka” and “po” in its name actually smells.
both are Maori words kaka = parrot po = night as they are night parrots so rudimentary i would think
@@bodybalanceU2 wow thank you for the insight!