The kea who
found fame after they were caught on film moving road cones have been
given their own gym.
A partnership between the
Department of Conservation (DOC), Downers NZ, University of Canterbury and
the Kea Conservation Trust has enabled a kea gym to be built near the
Homer Tunnel in Fiordland National Park.
A kea gym offers
the birds several objects they can play with or take apart
to distract them from danger or causing damage.
DOC partnerships
ranger Sue Streatfield said the idea to establish a gym at Homer
Tunnel in Fiordland came after rangers were looking for a way to get
kea away from the road.
On regular visits to Homer
Tunnel, rangers would find kea wandering all over the road
as traffic waited to go through the one-way tunnel to Milford Sound.
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