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It took me a second to grasp that a type of parrot is responsible for attacking and eating sheep. Even if it's a large parrot, the fact that a 1kg bird can tear
by 0_____0 6y ago
It took me a second to grasp that a type of parrot is responsible for attacking and eating sheep. Even if it's a large parrot, the fact that a 1kg bird can tear and eat the living flesh off a 100kg ruminant is remarkable.
- pvaldes 6y agoEurope has a similar problem with farmers saying that had seen vultures (8kg) eating their 800Kg cows alive. Something that would be obviously impossible without vultures learning how to use a firearm or without finding dozens of severely hurt and dead vultures around after the battle (something that strangely, never happens). Thus farmers can now ask for a compensation for each old cow that slips on a clift, or has a disease too expensive to treat. Maybe Keas are enough smart to eat an alive sheep (a lamb would be much more probable), maybe once in a blue moon, but disinformation and rumour spreading for money is a global problem that biologists face.
- MaximumYComb 6y agoThese are alpine birds and only, rarely, attack sheep that are stuck in the snow. The sheep is defenceless, much like a man buried up to his neck.
- sharatvir 6y agoWent up to Milford Sound some years back. We were told by our helicopter pilot that Kea have been known to shred the blades of the chopper and people had been temporarily stranded up in the fiords.