Same with the New Zealian (?) kakapo. They were once extremely endangered because they wanted to mate with their human caretakers instead of their own kind but thankfully they are no longer endangered. I wonder what happened?
So according to the article I was reading (which is equal parts hilarious and depressing) it's not so much that the kakapo's want to mate with humans.. It's that they're extremely bad at mating.
One example given:
"the kakapo is the only parrot to practice the lek system. The lek system is a practice wherein males put on competing displays for the females. Since the kakapo doesn't have the ability to fly or to fight, and is a better waddler than a walker, the only thing it has to display is its home and its voice. The male clips paths to his mating site, scoops out a nice bowl in the earth, preferably near a rock face on a cliff that will let the sound carry, and 'booms.' The booming is a deep repetitive throb with just a hint of musical overtone. It carries for miles. It sounds like it's coming from everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. Nowadays, when kakapo are concentrated in relatively large numbers on relatively small islands, it's not so much of a problem. In, for example, the majority of Fjordland, a region so mountainous and rough that sections of it are unexplored, it's a bit more frustrating to not know where whoever you want to mate with is calling from."
They continue to say that females would show up to empty nests and wait for the males, who had no clue and were busy off "booming somewhere else."
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Add onto that the fact that the females are apparently almost never in the mood (their way of putting it was the female's off-season lasts about as long as your typical "college education," and the end result is the males pretty much try to mate with several other things they encounter. A human head, for example. These things don't always appreciate being mated with, which I imagine can also increase their mortality rates
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/this-is-the-worst-reproductive-strategy-in-the-animal-k-5886679/amp
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http://scicurious.scientopia.org/2012/01/13/friday-weird-science-is-that-ostrich-flirting-with-me/
Long neck flyless birds find human sexy, everyone loses their mind.
"We're watching animal porn!"
https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Why-Do-Echidnas-Have-Four-Headed-Penises-2.jpg
One example given:
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Add onto that the fact that the females are apparently almost never in the mood (their way of putting it was the female's off-season lasts about as long as your typical "college education," and the end result is the males pretty much try to mate with several other things they encounter. A human head, for example. These things don't always appreciate being mated with, which I imagine can also increase their mortality rates
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/this-is-the-worst-reproductive-strategy-in-the-animal-k-5886679/amp