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Kākāpō

A kākāpō named Sirocco, who once famously tried to mate with a human head in a BBC program.
A kākāpō named Sirocco, who once famously tried to mate with a human head in a BBC program. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The feathered avocado that is the kākāpō is also endemic to New Zealand. The bird is a flightless, nocturnal parrot that is bad at sex and highly inbred. The species has managed to survive thanks to admirable conservation efforts that have been ongoing for decades. But cats like to eat the girthy birds, which cannot fly away and don’t recognize the felines as a threat.

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