Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance
When it comes to hopelessly flawed reproductive strategies, Kākāpō top the list. In addition to fertility problems they only breed every 2-5 years, coinciding with mass fruiting of rimu trees.
Scientists believe there might be hope for the critically-endangered native parrot by looking closer at this link.
Nine to Noon talks to Dr Janet Pitman and Dr Simon Hinkley from Victoria University of Wellington who have been awarded a Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden grant to investigate.
Dr Janet Pitman, and Dr Simon Hinkley Photo: Mr Colin McDiarmid (Photographer; VUW Image Services).
