{"id":1550,"date":"2010-08-03T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2010-08-02T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T03:33:49","slug":"pease-do-not-feed-kea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/pease-do-not-feed-kea\/1550","title":{"rendered":"Pease do not feed kea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Kea (Nestor notabilis)\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MG_4488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kea (or Nestor Notabilis) are the only real alpine parrots in the world. They live above the tree line in alpine and high country regions of New Zealand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s South Island and famous for their curiosity and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The Kea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strong desire to explore makes them an attraction for tourists, however their curiosity often comes with damage to bags, boots, cars and everything else they find interesting. In order to get to the food, Kea are capable of working as a group and solve simple logical puzzles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c break here, pull there, steal that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Kea (Nestor notabilis)\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MG_4495.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen them once, but that encounter was a great demonstration of  their capabilities. First of all, their intelligence is clearly evident  and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m suspecting that they can also read English \u00e2\u20ac\u201c why else would they  try to destroy a large sign \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do not feed kea?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have absolutely no doubts in their ability to work as a team \u00e2\u20ac\u201c while I was photographing one Kea, which was very happy to pose and was keeping my full attention, two others were trying to break into our campervan through the ventilation hatch on top of the roof.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1552\" title=\"The Kea (Nestor notabilis)\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MG_4493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kea (or Nestor Notabilis) are the only real alpine parrots in the world. They live above the tree line in alpine and high country regions of New Zealand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s South Island and famous for their curiosity and intelligence. The Kea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strong desire to explore makes them an attraction for tourists, however their curiosity often comes with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[54,56,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}