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Sirocco (hatched 23 March 1997) [1] is a kākāpō, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot, and one of the remaining living individuals numbering only 244 (as of 2024). [2] He achieved individual fame following an incident on the BBC television series Last Chance to See in which he attempted to mate with zoologist Mark Carwardine.
In the opening programme, Fry and Carwardine travel to Manaus in Brazil in search of the Amazonian manatee. Hunting has reduced wild manatee numbers to a few thousand individuals. On the Rio Negro, they have an encounter with a group of endangered botos, which take food from their hands. The two fly deeper into the forest to rendezvous with a ...
Data loggers record when mother kākāpō come and go, allowing rangers to pick a time to check on the health of chicks, and also indicate how hard females are having to work to find food. Because mother kākāpō often struggle to successfully rear multiple chicks, Kākāpō Recovery rangers will move chicks between nests as needed.
A New Jersey mother of three was crushed to death by a hippopotamus on safari in Africa, according to a lawsuit by her widower blaming the US-based tour operator for failing to warn of the danger.
While "Kākāpō" is used, "Kakapo" appears to still be the commonname; a review of sources finds a wide number from media sources both widely read and of more narrow interest that continue to use "Kakapo" (New Scientist, Otago Daily Times, ABC, CNN, Hindustan Times, Washington Post, Australian Geographic, Straits Times, National Geographic ...
The popular language-learning app, Duolingo, has been the butt of the joke for years and has become a meme due to the application’s incessant notifications.
Apr. 5—Many Hawaii residents are counting down the days to the 2024 solar eclipse on Monday, with some traveling thousands of miles across the ocean to see it in totality. Many Hawaii residents ...
Local folklore on the island of Oahu says that one should never carry pork over the Pali Highway connecting Honolulu and Windward Oahu. The stories vary, but the classic legend is that if one carries pork of any kind over the old Pali road (not the modern pali highway) by automobile, the automobile would stop at a certain point on the way and not restart until the pork is removed from the vehicle.