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National catches Kakapo Syndrome

Why a flightless heavy parrot has a lot in common with cabinet ministers.

Fri, 24 Jun 2016

One of New Zealand’s most famous birds, the alpine parrot* is also one of New Zealand’s rarer birds. It owes its lack of populational plenitude to a couple of quirks of evolutionary development.

Firstly, it finds it extremely difficult to actually find a partner. When it is on the kakapo

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