Flightless Parrots
Once, long long ago, on a tiny island there lived a group of greedy and ruthless parrots.
Since they were so greedy they stole lots of food from other parrots. They became fatter and heavier. Fern, god of the island, warned them not to steal the food but the warning didn’t work, so he decided to sink the island.
The island slowly sank down, as more and more parrots drowned. They thought that if the island sank down even more all of them would die. So they decided to find new land. They flew and flew finally they came to a land called Aotearoa, Land Of The Long White Cloud. Not long after the first people existed, the people hated the parrots because they ate all day long, and the people had to provide food for both the parrots and themselves.
Since they flew for so long, they were so tired, so they decided to rest. They slept and ate, they never took any exercise. Again they grew fatter and heavier. After a few years of resting, the parrots decided to fly again. But this time they flew for a while and fell beak first in the forest.
The parrots finally learnt that resting so long without any exercise, will stop them being healthy as well as stopping them flying. Not long after they became the heaviest parrots.
This is the story of why kakapo can’t fly
THE END By: Grace Shen
