"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 to have sex with animals that can kill them, this is the most hopelessly inefficient reproducer on Earth. It's not entirely the kakapo's fault that its entire species consists of one hundred and twenty-seven animals...."
Oh my.
"The kakapo has contrived, through a miracle of natural selection, to make their mating dependent on timing, acoustics, botany, and the male being able to tell a female kakapo from, say, an angry opossum. None of these things should be taken for granted."
Another fun line:
"The kakapo, assisted by conservation scientists, had found yet another way to kill themselves off."
Also:
"Understandably frustrated that females take the space of a college education off between breeding seasons, the males are known to breed with anything that catches their attention. This includes things like other birds, bits of the scenery, and a human's head. There are multiple video segments that show the male birds attempting to mate with the people filming them. Usually, due to the mulcher claws, the clips are accompanied by words like, "Ow! Ow! Ow!"

Best Internet Variety Show (and Good Luck Getting Anything Done, Ever) in 2005! 


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