You might have preferred his description of Kakapo-speak in Last Chance to See then
> “The booming [mating call] is deep, very deep, just on the threshold of what you can actually hear and what you can feel. This means that it carries for very great distances, but that you can’t tell where it’s coming from. If you’re familiar with certain types of stereo setups, you’ll know that you can get an additional speaker called a sub-woofer which carries only the bass frequencies and which you can, in theory, stick anywhere in the room, even behind the sofa. The principle is the same: you can’t tell where the bass sound is coming from.
> The female kakapo can’t tell where the booming is coming from either, which is something of a shortcoming in a mating call. “Come and get me!” “Where are you?” “Come and get me!” “Where the hell are you?” “Come and get me!” “Look, do you want me to come or not?” “Come and get me!” “Oh, for heaven’s sake.” “Come and get me!” “Go and stuff yourself” is roughly how it would go in human terms.”
(I once emailed Adams asking when this book would be published in paperback, this was back when the Internet was small enough that one could sleuth and guess nearly anything. He responded three years later, saying that Random House had published it with "the worst cover I've seen in my career.")
> “The booming [mating call] is deep, very deep, just on the threshold of what you can actually hear and what you can feel. This means that it carries for very great distances, but that you can’t tell where it’s coming from. If you’re familiar with certain types of stereo setups, you’ll know that you can get an additional speaker called a sub-woofer which carries only the bass frequencies and which you can, in theory, stick anywhere in the room, even behind the sofa. The principle is the same: you can’t tell where the bass sound is coming from.
> The female kakapo can’t tell where the booming is coming from either, which is something of a shortcoming in a mating call. “Come and get me!” “Where are you?” “Come and get me!” “Where the hell are you?” “Come and get me!” “Look, do you want me to come or not?” “Come and get me!” “Oh, for heaven’s sake.” “Come and get me!” “Go and stuff yourself” is roughly how it would go in human terms.”
Excerpt From: Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine. “Last Chance to See.” Apple Books. https://books.apple.com/us/book/last-chance-to-see/id4608191...
(I once emailed Adams asking when this book would be published in paperback, this was back when the Internet was small enough that one could sleuth and guess nearly anything. He responded three years later, saying that Random House had published it with "the worst cover I've seen in my career.")