{"id":41342,"date":"2022-02-04T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T04:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/04\/kleptomaniac-new-zealand-parrot-steals-gopro-films-airborne-escape"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T04:58:25","slug":"kleptomaniac-new-zealand-parrot-steals-gopro-films-airborne-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41342","title":{"rendered":"Kleptomaniac New Zealand parrot steals GoPro, films airborne escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kea filmed some majestic views over the Kepler Track, as well as a closeup of its own slightly frenzied attack on the camera<\/p>\n<p>A kleptomaniac parrot has become the latest contributor to New Zealand cinema, after stealing a GoPro camera and taking it on a sweeping tour of remote Fiordland.<\/p>\n<p>Aotearoa\u2019s native alpine parrot species, the kea, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/oct\/24\/playful-alpine-parrot-kea-soars-to-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-victory\">known for its curious and mischievous nature<\/a> \u2013 and for swiping wallets, jewellery, packed lunches, windscreen wipers and other valuables from unsuspecting tourists and visitors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/04\/kleptomaniac-new-zealand-parrot-steals-gopro-films-airborne-escape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kea filmed some majestic views over the Kepler Track, as well as a closeup of its own slightly frenzied attack on the cameraA kleptomaniac parrot has become the latest contributor to New Zealand cinema, after stealing a GoPro camera and taking it o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41343,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41342\/revisions\/41343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}