If we told you there was a species of parrot in the world that can’t fly, would you believe us? We couldn’t believe it ...

Which goes as follows. Toward the end of the year, right around Christmas, male kakapo ascend hills all around the three islands they call home. Here they build networks known as “tracks and ...

In the not-so-sexy years, the DOC staff will use a boom box to encourage the male kakapo to produce its pickup line, a low boom that travels up to five kilometers. The mini-CD player in the boom ...

Kakapo reproduce in leks — communal display ... The idea was to avoid boosting female condition too much before laying, to avoid a male bias in offspring. Extra food was still provided after ...

The giant panda is a champion reproducer compared to a chubby, land-bound parrot called the kakapo. Between navigational problems, botanical problems, and the occasions when horny male parrots try ...

The male will do this up to eight hours every night for three months. Females are only interested in breeding every two to four years. During pre-Polynesian times, the kakapo was New Zealand’s ...

And over 60 trips were made by some pretty hardy people back then. And they only found a handful of kakapo. Think it was 18, all up. And unfortunately, they were all male. But roll forward a little ...

Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New Zealand native carries one of the bird world's most tragic and oddly ...

For example, early studies showed that a male named Gulliver has versions of immune genes that are completely missing in all other kakapo—even his siblings. “Now, he’s a little more ...