Sentences with word «kakapo»

As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.

Aggressive conservation might also mean killing off newcomer species to preserve or make room for local flora and fauna; in New Zealand, rat extirpations have helped kakapos survive.

A well - developed sense of smell may help the nocturnal kakapo find food in the dark.

[214] Native species such as the New Zealand kakapo and the Australian bettong, for example, tend to be more ecologically vulnerable and behaviorally «naive», when faced with predation by cats.

«The kakapo encapsulates the fragility of life that evolved in a bubble — in this case, the bubble is New Zealand... but that bubble burst and New Zealand is full of predatory mammals, but the kakapo hasn't evolved a fear response.

the kakapo would say — «oh, I'm in its mouth...»»

Other species, including the remaining varieties of huia, the kiwi, the flightless rail, the takahe and the kakapo are all on the verge of disappearance.

Of these, the kiwi is perhaps the best known, but it is the takahe and the kakapo that are in the greatest danger of extinction.

After transplantation to a predator - free island, the kakapo population increased from a low

By this logic, the most acute sense of smell in Steiger's menagerie belongs to the kakapo, a rare nocturnal parrot indigenous to New Zealand.

The kakapo (Strigops habroptila) is a very unusual parrot.

The team estimates that the kakapo has 667 functional olfactory receptor genes.

Ralph Powlesland, a kakapo scientist, baited the birds to platforms on which he laid out grains, nuts, dried vegetables and commercial parrot feed to figure out what fatty foods they preferred.

Style chartreuse as Sirocco the kakapo parrot does: with neutrals and with either a defined lip or eye.

Here in New Zealand, I like to style it just like Sirocco the kakapo does; with darks and neutrals, and a well - defined beak — I mean, mouth.

The kakapo parrot used to number in the millions, but the population has been reduced to less than 100.

Watch as mountains project vertically out of the crystal clear waters and look out for the kakapo, takahe, seals, dolphins, bellbirds, kea and kiwi.

For example, 30 shirts were produced of the vaquita, 40 of the northern sportive lemur, 150 of the Cao - vit gibbon, 157 of the kakapo, 231 of the California condor, 350 of the Sumatran tiger, etc..

The animals include the Burmese roofed turtle, the vaquita, the northern sportive lemur, the Javan rhino, the Cao - vit gibbon, the kakapo, the California condor, the saola, the Sumatran tiger, and the Anegada ground iguana.

Though many species — such as the moa, a giant flightless bird, and the Haast's eagle, with its impressive 10 - foot wing span — have gone extinct since European settlers arrived, countless others remain, such as the kakapo, the world's heaviest parrot (which is also flightless) and the tuatara, a reptile that was a contemporary of the dinosaurs and is now the last of its kind.