Kiwi restoration project is going quite well. In 2018 we were hoping for conservation efforts to get a 2% (2600) increase in pop and they managed 7000 instead.
The strat is to raise them in a safe place until they're big and then let them go. The teenagers and adults have less trouble surviving its the babies who are super vulnerable.
At one point they were gone from the wild. But we have a few small islands that are pest free. The kiwis were able to live there. Now we are clearing the mainland of rats and stoates and releasing kiwis back into the wild.
The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there's always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.
I've seen this before and it's still surprises me. I didn't think they were as small as kiwi fruit. Maybe about the size of a softball but not as round.
I appreciate that they continued to use a different fruit as a measurement even though there's no reason why they couldn't compare the kiwi to some other class of object.
I compare everything to hail. Gold ball sized hail, base ball sized hail, pea sized hail... It makes it really easy because you don't need to think of different objects.
wouldn't you need to do 'hail sized pea, hail sized baseball' etc? otherwise you are comparing the size of hail to other objects, rather than other objects to hail
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They also have one of the largest egg size to mother size ratios of any species of bird.
That must feel like such a relief when it’s out…
They say it's the equivalent of a human giving birth to a 10yo. No wonder the mother's bugger off after laying and let the father deal with it
They gave all they had. And then some, Jesus.
Most animals have better births than humans but I, a human woman, would not want to be a kiwi bird (avian variety, IDK what words mean over there).
Packed very tightly. I believe the mother can't eat for the last few days of carrying the egg.
Yeah, I can see that from the photo.
If you zoom in there is a little bit of space left
they get compressed.
Organs.zip
Or organs.tar.gz for my linuxbros.
I think if your organs are all tarred up, you have a problem
Yea, it's called smoking. They're probably French.
Dear lord, I feel so bad
They would make a great replacement for chickens
Kiwi restoration project is going quite well. In 2018 we were hoping for conservation efforts to get a 2% (2600) increase in pop and they managed 7000 instead.
The strat is to raise them in a safe place until they're big and then let them go. The teenagers and adults have less trouble surviving its the babies who are super vulnerable.
I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct
Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.
At one point they were gone from the wild. But we have a few small islands that are pest free. The kiwis were able to live there. Now we are clearing the mainland of rats and stoates and releasing kiwis back into the wild.
The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there's always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.
Their call is like the lament of a million souls...
Also, they tear up the forest floor like mad. It looks like the most destructive chicken has come through after a kiwi has been there.
full grown Kiwi
I can hear this picture.
And it can hear you.
The cacophony of metal clanging, nades blowing and panicked dashing between levels.
Gibbed way too many times by that fucker.
That’s not their natural state? I’m learning so much in this thread.
Thank god they include the "bird" and "fruit", else i would've thought they're talking about human sized human.
Wait, isn't that kiwi holding a very small bird, equating then to the size of a pumpkin?
Maybe it's actually kiwi holding a kiwi feeding on kiwi.
I've seen this before and it's still surprises me. I didn't think they were as small as kiwi fruit. Maybe about the size of a softball but not as round.
There are différent types. Some are small, some are bigger. But the smallest are around the size of a rockmelon.
TIL cantaloupe is called rockmelon in your part of the world.
TIL a cantaloupe is a rockmelon haha.
Someone grow a kiwi fruit that is as big as a kiwi bird, stat!
I appreciate that they continued to use a different fruit as a measurement even though there's no reason why they couldn't compare the kiwi to some other class of object.
I compare everything to hail. Gold ball sized hail, base ball sized hail, pea sized hail... It makes it really easy because you don't need to think of different objects.
wouldn't you need to do 'hail sized pea, hail sized baseball' etc? otherwise you are comparing the size of hail to other objects, rather than other objects to hail
Well I'll be damned. TIL
I have a prior source to refute that: https://www.arjen.eu/2011/09/how-to-prepare-a-kiwi/ /s
Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )