>Docile>Eats seeds >Very stupidly naive and trusting and easy to tame>Not aggressive except for that time it humped Louis Theroux's head >Parrot trade is already rampant Why don't they just add this guy to the parrot trade as a species to have under a licence and then make breeders release a certain number of them into the wild each year? You can't tell me this dude wouldn't thrive in a household in a big cage as a cuddly ground feeder and be a better pet than a macaw. They would go from 'critically endangered' to 'least concern' in a decade and you may as well use the parrot trade for good.
>>5084091Because only special people who went to a special school and have a special piece of paper are allowed to deal with special animals.Nevermind the fact that most animals are actually pretty simple and anybody with a smidge of intelligence can look up the natural history of an animal and figure out how to keep/breed it. Else you wouldn't have people breeding tropical frogs in a trash can.
Same with the tuatara.
>>5084091Forgot>mostly solitary in nature so it would not suffer the same neglect other parrots doGovernments are really what it's about they don't ever give ground for like any reason once they have it. They don't even cave to terrorism these days they'll run the whole country into debt and poverty before they admit they're wrong and should change something more complicated than who's allowed to use what bathroom
With a few excaptions, species don't just "die out". There's a reason. Breeding a bunch to throw out in the wild without solving the problem will either just kill them or feed their predators. Man made stuff is all either habitat loss or predation from escaped crap.
>>5084155Isn't this also why they're trying to get rid of feral cats? Why not both?
>>5084091Id keep a small flock of these guys in my back yard and spoil the shit out of themMuch much more feasible than peacocks and less retarded than chickens
>>5084091so basically what happened to axolotls?
>>5084091People as they breed them will begin choosing traits by their own preference rather than what natural selection would guide. After a hundred years you will have wild lines and domesticated ones which behave and look different. If the goal is to boost wild numbers, turning them into pets will turn them into pugs.
>>5084091Are they easy to breed in captivity? If so, then I'm all for it. It would save the species and then you could release the extra back into the wild
>>5084091>be a better pet than a macawThat bar is incredibly low
>>5084094In the stone age they couldn’t do that though
