Their call is like the lament of a million souls…
kiwis!
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
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.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 month ago
I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct
tamal3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
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.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Man I love SponsorBlock. Saved me 12 seconds, nearly half the video.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There’s no sponsor in that video.
… oh god, Youtube’s fucking up the video itself to fuck with adblockers.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Walks like chocobo, yell like tiamat
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
I love that clip so much. It will never not be funny af to me.
huppakee@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Interesting how it enters the stage as a creature from hell and then it becomes softer and they walk off all cute.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It screamed out all the angy.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Thank god they include the “bird” and “fruit”, else i would’ve thought it’s a human sized human.
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
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.
skye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Someone grow a kiwi fruit that is as big as a kiwi bird, stat!
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Well I’ll be damned. TIL
blargle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Also:
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ch00f@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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They also have one of the largest egg size to mother size ratios of any species of bird.
Mortoc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That must feel like such a relief when it’s out…
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 month ago
They would make a great replacement for chickens