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2026-02-10 22:24 UTC
A fridge update is waaaay overdue! Hope to see it soon.
In the meantime listen to the excellent Kakapo Files podcast: you'll learn that more than 150 eggs have already been laid in 48 nests, and at least 55 of them are developing!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kakapo-files/season-2/nesting-time
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@temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe 2026-02-10 22:30
#TIL Kakapo have two different plumage colour morphs! They can be green or olive, as depicted here, and researchers have even found the exact gene responsible! The perks of working on the only species with a sequenced genome for every single living individual (and quite a few dead ones)... https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002755