“It is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weight about six of seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for wiggling about a bit if it thinks it’s about to trip over something - but flying is completely out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has also forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.”
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Douglas Adams, describing the kakapo:
I wish Douglas Adams wrote more about science.
