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Starling
Half-elven
Aug 24 2014, 5:40am
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My favourite part of this story is the reason they do it
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Because they can. 
I love those kea. 
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Lissuin
Valinor
Aug 24 2014, 10:49am
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"Not much going on here in Fjordland today. Hmmm...
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think I'll open that box, just for the heck of it."
You do have to wonder at the thought process. Fascinating, eh?
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Annael
Immortal
Aug 24 2014, 3:02pm
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that cracked me up. It's not just humans who like to make loud bangs apparently!
To be sane we must recognize our beliefs as fictions.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Bombadil
Half-elven
Aug 25 2014, 1:57pm
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When Bomby passes into the West..?
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He wantzz to come Back azz a
KEA?
www.charlie-art.biz
"What Your Mind can conceive... charlie can achieve"
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swordwhale
Tol Eressea
Aug 26 2014, 3:33pm
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but of course, it's a parrot....
(are these the ones that peel sheeP???)
"Judge me by my size, would you?" Max the Hobbit Husky.
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Lissuin
Valinor
Aug 26 2014, 9:43pm
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Kea will take on backpacks and cars and sleeping bags
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and just about anything that interests them that might contain food or, as we've seen above, just for the fun of it. Peel sounds too humanly methodical and is not really an accurate description of their opportunistic predations on the white wooley invaders of the Southern Alps, but think of the feeding habits of raptors and scavengers. Whatever their technique, it obviously did not make the Kea well-loved by early European sheep herders, and bounties on the birds led to their near extermination until they gained full official protection in 1986. http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/kea.html
But they face still more troubles, as this video by the Kea Conservation Trust shows. We humans continue to put too many temptations in their way, to their detriment.
(WARNING: graphic stoat-on-Kea-chick violence may be upsetting to sensitive viewers)
https://www.youtube.com/...ture=player_embedded
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