{"id":86734,"date":"2019-04-20T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2019-04-20T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:17:08","slug":"how-climate-change-is-turning-these-parrots-into-rabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-climate-change-is-turning-these-parrots-into-rabbits\/","title":{"rendered":"How climate change is turning these parrots into \u2018rabbits\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to New Zealand scientists,kakapo,a bird has enjoyed a record breaking breeding season possibly 249 eggs laid as part of a breeding programme.<\/li><li>This high amount of breeding is because of the Rimu trees that have produced a bumper crop this year possibly due to climate change and temperature fluctuations.<\/li><li>Kakapo means \u2018night parrot\u2019 in Maori.It is also called owl parrot.It is nocturnal bird,the world&#8217;s fattest parrot and the world&#8217;s only flightless parrot.<\/li><li>The parrot has been listed as Critically Endangered under the International Union for Conservation of Nature\u2019s(IUCN) Red List.<\/li><li>They are endemic to New Zealand.The surviving kakapo are kept on four predator-free islands off the New Zealand coast.They mate only every 2-4 years when New Zealand&#8217;s native Rimu trees are full of fruit.<\/li><li>kakapo is an unusual parrot as the females control the breeding process. At the start of the breeding season,the males put themselves on display while the females choose a partner.They mate and then end the relationship, shutting the male out of the incubation and rearing processes. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to New Zealand scientists,kakapo,a bird has enjoyed a record breaking breeding season possibly 249 eggs laid as part of a breeding programme. This high amount of breeding is because of the Rimu trees that have produced a bumper crop this year possibly due to climate change and temperature fluctuations. Kakapo means \u2018night parrot\u2019 in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-climate-change-is-turning-these-parrots-into-rabbits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How climate change is turning these parrots into \u2018rabbits\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182,164],"tags":[4331,4332],"class_list":["post-86734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-kakapoo","tag-newzealand","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700772796,"cached_date":1704947379},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}