{"id":31098,"date":"2023-09-02T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T06:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31098"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:37:40","slug":"kakapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kakapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakapo (Owl Parrot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kakapo (owl parrot):\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a large,\u00a0<strong>nocturnal, flightless, lek-breeding parrot<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a pale\u00a0<strong>owl-like face.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It consists moss green mottled with yellow and black above, and similar but more yellow below.<\/li>\n<li>The bill is grey, and the legs and feet grey with pale soles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These are remarkable and unusual birds,\u00a0<strong>found only in Aotearoa New Zealand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong>only breed every few years,<\/strong> triggered by the availability of certain forest foods such as the\u00a0<strong>fruits of the native rimu tree.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This bird suffers from diseases such as the\u00a0<strong>fungal infection aspergillosis<\/strong> and many of their eggs are infertile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:\u00a0<\/strong>Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is lek-breeding?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A lek is an\u00a0<strong>aggregation of males that gather to engage<\/strong> in competitive displays that may entice visiting females who are surveying prospective partners for copulation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is\u00a0 Aspergillosis?<\/h3>\n<p>Aspergillosis is a group of fungal infections caused by the Aspergillus species. These fungi are commonly found in the environment, particularly in soil, decaying vegetation, and compost piles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-gene-mapping-almost-all-remaining-kakapo-will-help-nzs-rare-night-parrot-survive-212451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How gene mapping almost all remaining k\u0101k\u0101p\u014d will help NZ\u2019s rare night parrot survive<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakapo (Owl Parrot)  is a large, nocturnal, flightless, lek-breeding parrot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}