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[–] 57 points 6 months ago (1 child)

It was Mark Carwadine who got the honor of being shagged by a rare parrot, Stephen Fry was just spectating.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    And on this note I can highly recommend the book "Last chance to see" that this TV show was based on. There also an audio book version read by Adams

    Douglas Adams and Cawardine go around the world in the 80s to try to find almost extinct animals

    When they created the tv show the plan was to revisit them, but a couple of animals went extinct in the meantime

    Kakapo population is the only one that was somewhat positive, iirc

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    The aye-aye is also doing much better, mostly because the population size was severely underestimated at the time of writing.

    And yeah, the book is amazing. I usually describe it to fans of his other works as somehow being his weirdest book, despite being non-fiction.

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