Capitolo 72
you parachute to break his/her fall in to come down from a stone or tree to his
accustomed food-earth. Staircase to wake up again him, parrot-as,
with his/her claws to hook, on the surface of the trunk or the face of a
precipice.
Also more aberrant in his/her ways, however that the owl-parrot that digs,
it is that other strange and it hated lory of New Zelanda, the kea that, alone
among his/her kind, you/he/she has abjured the ancestral and kind vegetarianism of the
cockatoo and macaws, in favour of a carnivorous diet of unusual
ferocity. And that that still this bad habit is odder you/he/she has been developed
in the kea since the colonization of the New Zelanda of the English, those
the most greater part that demoralizes of new-comers. The farmers have taught the Maori to
hands tall hats and to drink strong liqueurs: and they has thrown
the temptation in the way of also him once native and innocent parrot. Before
the white men came, in fact, the kea was a fruit-eating mild-well-mannered
or bird honey-suckling. But as soon as sheep-stations were established
in the island these degenerate parrots started to acquire a separate
tastes for raw meat of ram. Them to be sure for first they ate, only the sheep
heads and discard that have been thrown from the butchery-houses to choose
the bones as clean of meat as a dog or a jackal. But in process of
time as the taste for blood it grew on them, a still the idea scurviest it entered
in their bad heads. The first footstep on the suggested descending run
the second. If dead sheep is good to eat, because not also one living?
The kea, while pondering deeply on this abstruse problem, it immediately resolved him/it
with an emphatic affirmative. And him straightways proceeded to act on
his/her sentences, and it invents a really horrendous way of procedure.
Perching himself/herself/itself on the backs of the living sheep he now has learnt the exact one
stain where the kidneys will be found; and him torn opened the meat to
gets to these bits greediness that he extracts and it devours, while going away