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Sunday, 2 November 2014

Look, A Parrot In DPM!

Good afternoon,
 
While whiling away my time in Wellington waiting for the Satriani concert, I thought I'd pop in to Te Papa, our national museum. And it occurred to me that the Kakapo, our native ground dwelling parrot, is wearing DPM!
 
Nick
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9 comments:

  1. Disgruntled Fusilier3 November 2014 at 01:08

    Now we know where the pattern comes from. And the whole time I thought engineers at the MOD developed it!

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  2. Tim Gow3 November 2014 at 02:59

    Given the recent change (here in the UK at least) from DPM to Multicam, do we know if the parrot is planning to change it's feathers? I think we should be told.

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  3. Alan M3 November 2014 at 09:35

    Maybe they're not as endangered as we think, perhaps they're just really good at hiding!

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    1. Nick Grant3 November 2014 at 16:51

      Perhaps!

      (Actually, no - they're big, fat, slow and stationary eggs and young chicks are no match for Polynesian rats and European stoats. Bother it.)

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  4. Admiral Drax7 November 2014 at 10:43

    Smashing!

    You might find this old post of mine of interest - there's a link in it about natural camo: somethng about which I'm extremely interested...

    http://admiraldrax.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/106-camoflage-theory.html

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    1. Nick Grant7 November 2014 at 16:13

      Thanks Drax, I'll look it up. New Zealand is pretty unique in that we had no large predator mammals, so so long as our birds could hide from the Haast Eagle (biggest eagle ever, going on the bones) the ground was quite safe. Unless you were a Moa, and too jolly big to hide. Then you had to worry about, well, the Haast Eagle.

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    2. Nick Grant7 November 2014 at 16:14

      And then along came the humans...and the rats that came with them...(and later, their stoats and possums...)

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