You know how when you’re in a lake, and you’re enjoying the warm water in the sunshine, just floating around. Then you see a neat frog nearby and swivel around so you can swim over there and look at it? Then you feel a little piece of pondweed on your ankle?
Sometimes it’s not pondweed.
According to Wikipedia, “This species are a communal species in that they live and breed in large groups without unnecessary cannibalism.” This means that someone, somewhere, has defined “necessary cannibalism”.
There are only between 1,000 and 5,000 kea in the world. The only place (outside of a few zoos) that you can see them is in the mountains of New Zealand. Yes, where Sauron lives. Not only did they have to contend with widespread eradication by the New Zelanders (who have since changed their ways) and suffer from lead poisoning, they also must be constantly on guard against orcs and giant spiders.
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