{"id":264569,"date":"2021-06-02T02:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/endangered-parrot-lives-in-mountains-to-avoid-people-study\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T02:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:01:49","slug":"endangered-parrot-lives-in-mountains-to-avoid-people-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/endangered-parrot-lives-in-mountains-to-avoid-people-study\/","title":{"rendered":"#Endangered parrot lives in mountains to avoid people: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Endangered parrot lives in mountains to avoid people: study<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Birds of a feather flock together \u2014 far away from society.<\/p>\n

Researchers have found reason to believe that the kea \u2014 a large, endangered parrot species \u2014 once lived among humans before moving away from people and into New Zealand\u2019s mountains.<\/p>\n

In a study<\/a> published last month in the journal Molecular Ecology, scientists at New Zealand\u2019s University of Otago determined that the kea may be capable of living amongst people, but prefers alpine habitats so as to \u201cavoid lower-lying anthropogenic landscapes\u201d \u2014 so they don\u2019t have to mingle among humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat distinguishes the alpine habitat from the New Zealand lower-lying open habitats? [There] are usually heavily anthropogenic influences, agriculture going on and so on,\u201d associate professor and lead paper author Michael Knapp<\/a> told The Guardian<\/a>, noting that researchers only have speculative evidence keas\u2019 habitat preference is reflective of a dislike of mankind. \u201cPhysiologically, there is nothing to stop the kea from surviving at lower altitudes. It\u2019s a general<\/a>ist. It will survive from sea level to alpine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Study authors discovered this by comparing their analysis of kea genome DNA and the genome of its sister species, the k\u0101k\u0101.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe researchers found the kea is not an alpine specialist, but rather one that adapted to using such an open habitat because it was least disturbed by human activity,\u201d stated a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A closeup shot of a Nestor Kea, located only on South Island in New Zealand.<\/figcaption>
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While the correlation between keas and not living among homo sapiens is still unproven, such a finding would align well with the birds\u2019 notorious reputation for running amok around the nation. Headlines about the alpine parrots have included everything from tales of them stealing tourists\u2019 wallets and passports, generally wreaking havoc and, most significantly, periodically killing sheep. This murderous habit so angered the nation\u2019s sheep farmers that, from approximately 1870 to 1970, the New Zealand government had a formal policy of paying a bounty for kea beaks, The Guardian reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, there are only roughly 3,000 to 7,000 keas left in existence, according to New Zealand\u2019s Department of Conservation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Researchers are concerned that climate warming will leave keas with few habitat options to continue avoiding humanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf kea use the alpine zone as a retreat from human activity, then what other options do they have if the alpine zone disappears? Will they increase their use of forest habitat, potentially increasing competition with k\u0101k\u0101?\u201d asked Knapp in the release.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Endangered parrot lives in mountains to avoid people: study” Birds of a feather flock together \u2014 far away from society. Researchers have found reason to believe that the kea \u2014 a large, endangered parrot species \u2014 once lived among humans before moving away from people and into New Zealand\u2019s mountains. In a study published last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/alpine-parrot-kea-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[107931,36368,74135,9724],"class_list":["post-264569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-1-21","tag-birds","tag-new-zealand","tag-study-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}