Conservationist in New Zealand had to call off a cull of an aggressive species of bird that was meant to protect an endangered bird (that is down to fewer than 300).
Takahe Pukeko
The takahe is flightless and therefore easy pickings. The pukeko can fly and has been encroaching on preservation land set aside for the takahe.
Hunters participating in the cull were told to only shoot birds on the wings.
Seems simple enough, If it flies it dies and if it runs on the ground don’t shoot it. Somebody didn’t get the message.
Can’t we send the puke to anti-bullying classes instead?
Couldn’t we just send the puke to anti-bullying classes instead?
Shit. Typing from new device (which is why I haven’t been online in 3+weeks), and fucking spell checker doesn’t recognize “pukeko” as a legitimate word.
Sorry for double post too; thought first one wasn’t posting because I didn’t indicate screen name.
Them’s good eating!
They look the same to me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGUgtebFVQE
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The “George Takahe” is gay and won’t reproduce any old who…
They both look similar. If they’re both good eating who cares?
I was just wondering where you were earlier today.
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To me, the Takahe looks like the extinct dodo bird. They couldn’t fly either but maybe they found their way to NZ some other way and mutated.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Governmental Interference Immutable Law of Unintended Consequences.