It is said that the appearance of animals evolved to adapt to the living environment. For example, in order to prevent the bite of tsetse flies, zebras evolved black and white lines, so that they could see dazzlingly and could not find where they were; the fur of the Arctic fox evolved into pure white, which could avoid the pursuit of predators and confuse prey to facilitate their own predation; camels living in the desert grew humps, and its existence was like a small warehouse, which could decompose nutrients and water... In short, in order to survive well, everyone is fighting for their lives! However, a wonderful creature we want to talk about today, the owl parrot, on the road of evolution, constantly points out the wrong skill, but it has accidentally survived to the present.
Stupid cute fat owl parrot pulls down the IQ of the parrot family
Parrot, just by listening to its name, you may not feel anything special, isn't it just a breed of many parrots?
But unlike other parrots, the existence of the parrot, that is definitely to drag the parrot family hind legs! No, it even came to drag the entire creatures of nature back!
The parrot is the heaviest and only parrot in the world that can't fly. But its weirdness goes far beyond that. Although it can't fly, the parrot has a heart that goes up to the tree. They would clumsily climb trees and use their mouths as claws.
Parrots can't fly, which is actually the result of years of "evolution". Experts explain that the ancestors of the owl parrot settled in New Zealand as early as prehistoric times, where there are almost no natural predators on land. The environment on the ground is more comfortable, who wants to fly? The parrot is lazy and used to it. In modern times, however, some European colonists arrived at the islands, bringing cats, weasels and mice, and the survival of the owl parrot began to be threatened. But, most damningly, the owl is still very curious, and if they find any unseen animals in the jungle, they will think that they are unconsciously approaching. If you feel the danger, you will urgently activate the defensive strategy - stand still and stand still!
This method is naturally useless, so these flying fat birds are driven away and hunted down by these animals, and only more than 120 are left.
The parrot is on the brink of extinction, and the New Zealand government will certainly take action. Not only has an ambitious goal been set to eliminate all invasive mammal predators by 2050; an owl parrot, Cyroc, has been invited as the official "spokesperson" to inform about the Owl and New Zealand's conservation policies.
Easy to fall to death, difficult to court, owl parrot "two" to hopeless
However, the reason why Selok became a "spokesperson" was also through a series of coincidences! Before it, the owl parrot's survival crisis rose sharply! In addition to being attacked by foreign invaders, the parrots themselves are also very angry!
Whenever they climb to the top of the tree to come down, they seem to remember their identity as a bird, but they forget that they are the birds that can't fly, and they always try to open their wings to the wind, I want to fly higher, fly higher! Snapped, then jumped and fell from a tree and fell to his death. Yes, according to the statistics of biologists, most of the deaths of owl parrots are - high-altitude falls.
If you have survived to adulthood, you can find a partner. The male parrot will excitedly make a bowl hole and clear the branches and obstacles along the way.
Subsequently, in the evening, he constantly whispered and invited "italians" to come as guests.
This invitation lasts for 6 months a year, but the female parrot has no interest in breeding.
What's even more worrying is that in addition to the female's indifference to reproduction, the clumsy male can even confuse mating partners. Selok is one of them. As a young man, he was brought back by rangers for artificial feeding due to a respiratory infection. Unexpectedly, when his illness was cured, the rangers were ready to send it home, but Selok already regarded himself as a human.
Selok "Salted Fish Turn" to save endangered owl parrots
Well, let's keep raising Selock. But it is once again discovered that Selok has reached the age of estrus, but he regards humans as targets.
Seeing this phenomenon, the rangers are very troubled: it does not play a little role in breeding races, what is the use of us raising you?
Although abandoned into slag! However, the "second spring of the career" of "waste" Selock was accidentally excavated. The BBC, while filming an Owl Parrot documentary, happened to meet Selok, who was particularly intimate with humans.
As the video went viral online, Selok and his siblings gained thousands of followers around the world.
The New Zealand government has also officially awarded it the title of Environmental Ambassador. Although Selok himself is "destined to live a lonely life", its existence has become very meaningful.
Because of Therlock's endorsement role, human protection has increased, and now, the number of parrots is slowly increasing.
After watching the performance of the parrot, some people said that this is clearly the husky of the birds, the silly roe deer of New Zealand! They rely on their mouths on trees, and when they encounter predators, they are "like wooden parrots"; they are not interested in finding objects, and they only give birth to birds every five years on average, which is longer than the World Cup cycle. The only advantage is that they live long enough to be more than 90 years at most. Now, because the New Zealand government has placed the protection of the owl parrot on a small island far away from humans, no cats, no ferrets, and no other land borders, the owl has finally survived. However, such results are really not commendable! After all, if it weren't for humans, where would they have so many natural enemies!