Kakapo

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NOTE: This article should not be taken seriously. It is in the Misc (Other) category because of it not being related to zelda at all.

This is roughly, very roughly, what a kakapo looks like.

The kakapo is the world's rarest, largest, and strangest parrot. It is also the only flightless and nocturnal parrot. It is found in New Zealand, where there used to be millions of them a long, long time ago. In a land of birds and no predators, nature has given them a most peculiar mating ritual. The male kakapo's mating call is a deep bass that can reverberate for miles around. Every few years, the male kakapo makes a bowl-shaped dent in the ground, and at night, he sits in it and booms. Though solitary birds, the female kakapo gets the urge to mate every few years, in a year when the rimu and kahikatea plants are bearing fruit. But the acoustics of a booming bass sound is such that it is almost impossible to tell its source. If the male decides that he wants company, he lets cry another sound that will lead the female to him. As a side note, kakapos are capable of making a wide variety of sounds, from braying to skarking (which sounds like "skarrrrk"). To meet the male, the female has to walk for many miles. Finally, at the end of the ritual, after years of hard work, the female lays a single egg.

All was good until rats, cats, stoats and possums were introduced to the kakapo's habitat through the arrival of exploring pioneers. Kakapos could not even grasp the concept that some things would want to harm them, and promptly became food for rodents, felines, canines and humans. At the present, there are less than a hundred of them in the world. They are extinct on the mainland, and only managed to survive on predator-free islands with the help of conservationists.